Rebel News Podcast - June 27, 2020


SHOWDOWN： Rebel News takes on violent Antifa mob at Toronto City Hall


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33 minutes

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Hate speech

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Rebel News has been fighting for the right to report in the streets of Toronto, and the police have been doing all they can to make sure we don t do the same. But tonight, we turn the tables and push back.

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00:00:00.000 My friends, an unusual show today.
00:00:03.140 It's an ongoing saga of us here at Rebel News
00:00:07.120 fighting for the right to report.
00:00:09.960 It involves anti-foot-style rioters.
00:00:12.600 It involves politicized police.
00:00:15.180 And it involves us fighting back the best way we know how.
00:00:19.760 I'll have a short introduction, and then I'll let you hear
00:00:22.680 a 25-minute masterpiece of what has happened.
00:00:26.760 I really want you to see it with your own eyes, though.
00:00:28.960 So I want you to become a premium subscriber.
00:00:32.740 Go to rebelnews.com, become a premium subscriber.
00:00:35.560 We call it Rebel News Plus.
00:00:37.440 It's just $8 a month. That's $80 a year.
00:00:39.440 And you will get the video.
00:00:40.820 You know, we have made about 14,000 videos here at Rebel News.
00:00:45.120 And I have to say, this is one of the finest.
00:00:48.940 Enjoy the audio of it, but my God, you've got to see it.
00:00:52.400 You've really got to see it.
00:00:53.960 Go to rebelnews.com, sign up for $8, buy a year for $80,
00:00:58.060 and enjoy one of the most interesting videos I think you'll see in a long time.
00:01:02.440 All right, here's the podcast.
00:01:03.860 Tonight, all week, Rebel reporters have been attacked by violent mobs
00:01:25.240 and then turned away by security guards and police.
00:01:29.080 Well, tonight, we turn the tables and push back.
00:01:32.760 It's June 26, and this is The Ezra LeVance Show.
00:01:35.940 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:41.800 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:45.900 The only thing I have to say to the government,
00:01:48.360 the why I publish it, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:51.740 For a couple of days now, we've been telling you about an ongoing battle we've had
00:02:00.900 against the world, really.
00:02:03.480 All we want to do is report the news.
00:02:05.420 That's what we do for a living.
00:02:07.600 Occasionally, we know things might get a little rough out there,
00:02:09.760 so we don't mind hiring a security guard for a reporter.
00:02:13.160 But these days, that means any time we step out into the public.
00:02:16.980 Because, you see, in this mob mentality that has taken over the West,
00:02:21.960 anything goes.
00:02:22.960 And Antifa types, well, they feel like they had the license to physically get violent.
00:02:29.460 And why not?
00:02:30.340 Wherever they look around the world, violence happens without impunity.
00:02:33.860 In fact, it happens with the approval of at least half the political spectrum.
00:02:38.520 And in Canada, well, the rebel is the most identifiable,
00:02:42.020 the most recognizable of conservative media.
00:02:44.820 It's almost like Antifa stop whatever they're doing to attack us,
00:02:48.820 especially our brave Ontario reporter, David Menzies.
00:02:53.440 Over the last week, we've seen a ramping up of this.
00:02:56.360 We sent one security guard with him to Kingston.
00:02:59.120 David still got attacked.
00:03:00.200 We sent two and then four.
00:03:02.900 And each time, they were overwhelmed by protesters.
00:03:05.300 And the worst moment was when a Toronto police officer said,
00:03:09.160 if you try and report from City Hall, we will say you are trespassing,
00:03:14.400 that you are causing a disturbance for merely upsetting the illegal squatting protesters.
00:03:20.920 Well, that was too much for me.
00:03:23.400 We hired seven bodyguards and a lawyer.
00:03:25.840 We went back down to City Hall.
00:03:28.900 There were 15 of us all told.
00:03:30.780 Seven lawyers, seven bodyguards, a lawyer, five cameramen, myself and David.
00:03:38.020 That's 15.
00:03:39.720 And what we are going to show you tonight is the result of that visit.
00:03:44.200 It's quite theatrical.
00:03:46.180 It's quite dramatic.
00:03:47.880 Highs and lows, ups and downs.
00:03:49.780 But in the end, I think it's one of the finest videos we've ever made here at Rebel News.
00:03:54.100 I wanted to have this for you yesterday, but it was so complicated with the five different camera angles
00:04:00.480 and then blurring out the faces of security so they won't be later attacked by Antifa.
00:04:06.160 It was a painstaking edit that took us until now, and I didn't want to rush it.
00:04:11.800 This video will only be available to you behind the paywall for now.
00:04:16.920 We don't want to put it on YouTube on a Friday night.
00:04:19.940 That's when things get lost in the news because people aren't paying attention.
00:04:23.060 So you will have exclusive access to the video all weekend behind the paywall as a subscriber.
00:04:30.420 On Monday morning, we'll release the video in a public way on YouTube for the world to see.
00:04:37.500 And I hope you'll agree with me that it is a combination of reporting, commentary, activism,
00:04:43.900 and plain old standing up for what's right.
00:04:46.460 As I said to our team, it's one of the finest moments we've had at Rebel News, in my opinion,
00:04:53.220 and I hope that's your opinion too.
00:04:56.040 So instead of our usual show with a monologue and a guest,
00:04:59.540 I present to you our story of fighting for freedom and how we did it in Toronto.
00:05:07.480 I'll say goodbye to you now.
00:05:10.200 Enjoy the video.
00:05:11.560 I'll see you on Monday.
00:05:13.280 Until then, on behalf of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, goodnight.
00:05:17.740 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:05:19.500 Now watch this masterpiece.
00:05:20.980 We're going to go there.
00:05:22.500 David's going to try and do journalism.
00:05:25.500 Ideally, we're done in half an hour because nothing happened.
00:05:29.840 Hey, people here now!
00:05:31.100 What would you like us to do?
00:05:34.280 F*** off my land! 1.00
00:05:35.240 That's what I would like.
00:05:36.200 We've got another gender. 1.00
00:05:37.540 Touch my f***ing elder.
00:05:39.200 Your elder?
00:05:40.100 What you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here.
00:05:43.880 I need to ask you to leave, okay?
00:05:45.740 What have I done to cause a disturbance?
00:05:47.540 You're causing disturbance.
00:05:48.200 Stop it! 0.99
00:05:49.400 Stop it! 0.99
00:05:49.600 Stop it! 0.99
00:05:50.100 Stop it! 0.99
00:05:50.400 Stop it! 0.99
00:05:53.240 What the hell?
00:05:55.460 Come on, man!
00:05:57.680 Come on! 0.61
00:05:58.600 That in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist can go peacefully.
00:06:04.900 So if that is not true, we need to know it.
00:06:21.820 Give me a hug!
00:06:22.680 Give me a hug!
00:06:23.240 I love you!
00:06:24.060 I love you!
00:06:26.000 I love you!
00:06:27.100 Don't run away from love!
00:06:28.600 Don't run away from love!
00:06:30.020 Don't run away from love!
00:06:30.940 Uh-oh! 0.94
00:06:31.460 Don't run away from love!
00:06:33.400 I have a return.
00:06:34.400 All right, one minute.
00:06:36.000 Sir?
00:06:36.600 Yeah.
00:06:37.320 What's your purpose here?
00:06:39.200 I'm a cameraman.
00:06:40.260 Can I see your...
00:06:41.440 Are you going to stop me instead of them trying to block me?
00:06:43.980 I'm asking you.
00:06:45.180 I don't have to provide you anything.
00:06:47.740 Okay, well...
00:06:48.400 Just like they don't have to provide anything to you.
00:06:50.500 I'm not harassing them.
00:06:51.780 They're following me.
00:06:52.600 You are in their state.
00:06:54.100 Can you please stop?
00:06:55.240 No.
00:06:55.860 Just came here to see what's going on.
00:06:57.720 You guys are getting violent right away.
00:06:59.100 We evolve through love and diversity.
00:07:00.480 That's what we do!
00:07:01.360 We evolve through love and diversity.
00:07:02.780 That's what we do!
00:07:03.640 We evolve through love and diversity.
00:07:04.900 Listen to the chant.
00:07:06.180 Folks, welcome to John Tory Strano.
00:07:08.680 Hey, get off me. 1.00
00:07:10.300 Don't slap my hand away.
00:07:11.220 Don't slap the camera.
00:07:12.100 Don't slap my hand away.
00:07:13.060 Get us a break.
00:07:13.700 What do you mean?
00:07:14.280 Huh?
00:07:15.220 Stand up.
00:07:15.640 I will trespass you for non-compliance.
00:07:19.360 I need you to stay back.
00:07:21.260 So this isn't probably the best time to be coming here and doing this.
00:07:24.080 I understand what you're trying to do.
00:07:25.980 So for today, City Hall Security and their staff, they're trespassing you, okay?
00:07:31.020 So we're going to have to escort you off the property.
00:07:32.740 Our purpose, as I mentioned earlier today, is to do journalism.
00:07:40.540 We're not there to protest.
00:07:41.920 We're just going to be so compliant with the law that we're going to force the government
00:07:46.560 to reveal itself.
00:07:48.400 Are they really just trying to get rid of us because they don't like the cut of our
00:07:51.700 jib? 0.76
00:07:52.020 If so, that's illegal.
00:07:53.480 That's unconstitutional.
00:07:54.460 Aaron is coming with all sorts of legal precedents in hand, just in case, not if the protesters
00:08:05.220 attack us, but if City Hall attacks us in real time.
00:08:08.960 We're going to meet our security detail at Old City Hall and we'll walk across the street.
00:08:14.540 And hopefully we'll be done in half an hour.
00:08:16.960 Hopefully it'll be uneventful.
00:08:18.780 But if the city and the police have other plans, we're as ready as we can be.
00:08:24.460 We're here to assert not only our right as citizens, but we have a specific law called
00:08:38.080 Section 2B of the Charter.
00:08:39.660 We're going to go there.
00:08:41.100 David's going to try and do journalism.
00:08:44.120 Ideally, we're done in half an hour because nothing happened.
00:08:47.360 It's not even that interesting a story.
00:08:49.220 It's a bunch of tents.
00:08:54.460 Well, you may recall, folks, that yesterday I went to Nathan Phelps Square.
00:08:59.720 It has been commandeered by a group that's primarily composed of Indigenous and Black people.
00:09:08.960 And evidently, we're not allowed to be on the square.
00:09:12.420 It is like the Antifa autonomous city in Seattle, but it's even amped up a little more because
00:09:19.420 it's right where the seat of government is here in the municipality of Toronto, Toronto City Hall.
00:09:25.040 We were told that by police that if we didn't exit the square, we would be arrested and charged
00:09:31.980 with trespass.
00:09:33.480 And yet they're turning a blind eye to the squatters.
00:09:36.300 Not only that, folks, the city is aiding and enabling them by putting up porta-potties
00:09:42.720 for their comfort.
00:09:44.120 But we don't take no for an answer here at Rebel News.
00:09:47.020 We fight for freedom.
00:09:48.580 And I'm right now with the commander himself, Ezra Levent.
00:09:51.360 What did you make of our experience yesterday, Ezra?
00:09:54.000 It was completely unacceptable, David.
00:09:56.380 You know me.
00:09:56.920 I have my own show, but I let you do most of the field work in Ontario.
00:10:00.980 But I saw you went to Kingston, Ontario on the weekend.
00:10:03.880 And we had one security guard with you.
00:10:06.540 The police were not there, and you were swarmed by Antifa.
00:10:09.620 Our security guard did a good job and pulled you out of there.
00:10:12.840 But it was outrageous that the police were not there.
00:10:15.760 It is unacceptable that the police who dismissed our private security yesterday did not protect
00:10:22.080 our journalists.
00:10:23.060 In particular, they swarmed one of our cameramen, Mocha.
00:10:25.840 And it's doubly unacceptable to me that the same City Hall police and security that allows
00:10:33.760 an unhygienic, unlawful, violence-prone squatter's camp, literally on the plaza in front of City
00:10:44.220 Hall, they abide that, but they tell peaceful, law-abiding journalists to skedaddle?
00:10:49.780 No.
00:10:50.340 No.
00:10:50.920 So we are back here today with seven security guards and our lawyer, Aaron Rosenberg.
00:11:00.080 It's absurd.
00:11:01.540 We have a team of seven, eight, nine, ten people, plus five.
00:11:07.120 We got 15 people here today just to assist you doing a story.
00:11:12.180 So we're going to go into this camp now, and you're going to do a normal story.
00:11:16.160 What I'm going to be looking for, and so will our lawyer, is will John Tory's politicized
00:11:22.300 police, who have ignored this illegal encampment, will they try to crack down on you, on me,
00:11:31.860 on our professional licensed insured security?
00:11:35.140 If so, we have a serious problem.
00:11:38.320 Let's go to the front steps of the City Hall, and let's let you do journalism.
00:11:44.460 We're going to be so compliant with the law, we're going to be professional, we're going
00:11:49.680 to be lawful, we're not going to cause a scene.
00:11:52.600 We're going to be so perfect in our conduct, that the police will literally have no cause
00:11:58.600 to eject us, other than political bias.
00:12:02.800 We're controlling every other variable.
00:12:06.460 There's 10 people here now!
00:12:08.040 Well, folks, we are at literally the scene of the crime.
00:12:16.620 This is the illegal encampment.
00:12:19.420 It's supposedly a circle.
00:12:21.200 It's not quite geometrically correct.
00:12:24.380 But this is where we were yesterday.
00:12:25.920 And evidently, there's a phony baloney rule that I think people, and even media, are allowed
00:12:34.120 to be outside the circle, but we can't venture inside the circle.
00:12:38.540 Now, here come the umbrellas.
00:12:39.880 You can tell there's not a raindrop in the air today.
00:12:42.940 It's a nice sunny day in Toronto.
00:12:44.100 So, this is going to be to attempt to block our cameras so, you know, we can't capture
00:12:51.660 their crimes on video.
00:12:53.980 It's a typical Antifa 101 tactic in massaging the narrative to their liking.
00:13:01.460 Also, as you can see, as I alluded to earlier, we got a couple of porta-potties established
00:13:06.300 by the city.
00:13:06.980 So, not only are the police coming in and John Tory saying, you cannot be here, it is
00:13:13.500 illegal, they are making these squatters have a comfortable place to be.
00:13:20.460 It should also be noted that despite this illegal occupation, there is 0.0 police presence.
00:13:31.140 And then we have one solitary security guard there.
00:13:34.720 Notably, he is behind a steel wall of sorts, a temporary steel fencing.
00:13:42.200 Very funny that, isn't it, folks?
00:13:43.900 The left is typically against building walls so that a country can maintain its sovereignty
00:13:53.020 in terms of illegal aliens coming to the country.
00:13:55.640 But when they are threatened at City Hall, walls are very effective indeed.
00:14:01.580 Now, as you can see off camera too, this is where they start shoving umbrellas and whatnot
00:14:07.180 into our faces.
00:14:08.580 And they start complaining, don't touch me, and that this is an assault on them.
00:14:14.400 Here's this guy.
00:14:15.760 As you can see, I don't know what he's got.
00:14:19.040 They don't want free speech.
00:14:21.700 They don't want freedom of the press.
00:14:23.880 They don't want freedom of expression.
00:14:28.360 They want tyranny.
00:14:31.480 They...
00:14:32.000 Oh, is that right?
00:14:34.180 What's the truth, ma'am?
00:14:38.020 See, again, you ask them a question, and they can't answer it.
00:14:42.660 They respond with vulgarity.
00:14:43.880 It's a conversation where people are against you.
00:14:46.480 They don't want anyone to hear the true story.
00:14:47.860 Well, maybe, ma'am, if you put your umbrella down...
00:14:50.520 By the way, why is it that you people don't want your encampment filmed?
00:14:56.140 You people in the encampment, ma'am.
00:14:58.660 This is an occupation.
00:14:59.640 Who is you?
00:15:00.080 Oh, it's an occupation.
00:15:01.400 Okay, well, we're dealing with semantics right now.
00:15:03.540 You're on my land.
00:15:04.240 You're on my territories.
00:15:05.220 Who are you, colonizer?
00:15:06.160 Can I see a deed, please?
00:15:07.680 Pardon me?
00:15:08.360 Can I see the deed?
00:15:09.560 You don't need to see my f***ing deed.
00:15:11.080 Do you know what the history is?
00:15:12.420 Are you able to respond to a question without profanity?
00:15:15.520 Are these your lands?
00:15:16.900 Were you your original person of these lands?
00:15:19.720 Are these your lands?
00:15:20.920 Well, I believe this is a public square, ma'am.
00:15:23.040 That's what you believe.
00:15:23.620 Do you know that these are not your lands?
00:15:25.880 Does somebody come up into your home and take up your space?
00:15:28.620 Does somebody come into your home and they can dictate how you run your household?
00:15:32.140 So, what would you like?
00:15:34.020 What would you like us to do?
00:15:35.340 F*** off my land. 0.70
00:15:36.300 That's what I would like.
00:15:37.200 What about all these other people on your land?
00:15:39.000 Why don't they...
00:15:39.420 They're protesting against you.
00:15:40.760 This is not public space.
00:15:41.760 This is Anishinaabe territory. 0.84
00:15:43.300 I don't want to get into history.
00:15:44.900 I want to get into current events.
00:15:46.020 If you want to abolish the police, ma'am, who do we call when the bad guys harass people
00:15:50.940 out?
00:15:52.080 The bad guys can get the f*** out of here.
00:15:54.620 It's your people that did this, had this mindset in here.
00:15:57.180 Our people were peaceful people before they came here.
00:16:00.220 You know, I think you're probably a nice lady. 1.00
00:16:01.980 If someone were to criminally harass you, harm you, who would you call if you abolish the
00:16:06.760 police, ma'am?
00:16:09.500 Well, I'm interviewing an umbrella again.
00:16:12.040 So, like I said, folks, as you can see, that is their main goal.
00:16:15.740 They have a big red and white sign that says, abolish the police, not defund the police.
00:16:22.980 Well, why are you getting in our way, sir?
00:16:25.340 By the way, this is another tactic, folks.
00:16:29.080 They walk an inch away from us, and then they play the victim card.
00:16:35.260 You know, oh, here's silent sound again.
00:16:37.880 Don't touch me.
00:16:39.060 Don't f***ing touch me.
00:16:41.060 So, anyways.
00:16:42.880 Don't touch.
00:16:43.780 It's getting testy, as you can see.
00:16:45.940 Now, where, where, and you'd think, now you'd think with an illegal occupation like this,
00:16:51.840 there would be a police presence.
00:16:54.160 Yes, but Mayor Tory has called off the cops, it would seem.
00:16:59.880 We are probably a four-minute drive from police headquarters.
00:17:05.200 What are you doing?
00:17:05.720 You know.
00:17:06.080 Don't f***ing touch me.
00:17:06.900 Sir, what's your purpose here?
00:17:08.160 My purpose here is to do some journalism.
00:17:11.320 All right.
00:17:11.680 So, right now, what you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here.
00:17:16.500 I need to ask you to leave, okay?
00:17:18.380 What have I done to cause a disturbance?
00:17:20.160 You're causing disturbance.
00:17:21.180 I need you to leave the property.
00:17:22.660 And what have I done to cause a disturbance?
00:17:24.160 You're causing disturbance, sir.
00:17:25.720 I need you to leave the property.
00:17:27.480 You have been cautioned.
00:17:29.200 And I've said it.
00:17:30.500 It is loud and clear.
00:17:32.020 You have been cautioned.
00:17:33.160 I need you to leave the property.
00:17:35.280 I've been trespassing, okay?
00:17:36.760 You're causing disturbance.
00:17:37.740 So, you have the property act.
00:17:38.960 You have been cautioned.
00:17:39.840 Which section of the acts?
00:17:41.380 I don't have to tell you, but...
00:17:43.520 You have to tell me what grounds I violated, ma'am.
00:17:45.820 Causing disturbance, sir.
00:17:47.060 Look it up.
00:17:47.740 I have looked it up, ma'am.
00:17:50.160 Hey, is that that wacky tobacco that's legal now?
00:17:52.540 Listen to your heart decolonize your mind.
00:17:58.940 What does that mean, ma'am?
00:18:02.880 Smells like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, actually.
00:18:06.180 But, uh...
00:18:06.540 Oh, is that right?
00:18:11.100 Is that your idea of freedom?
00:18:12.500 Shutting down the media, sir?
00:18:13.740 I thought we weren't allowed inside your sacred circle, sir.
00:18:20.220 We're outside of your sacred circle.
00:18:21.880 Because you're disruptors.
00:18:23.340 You're antagonizers.
00:18:24.500 I'm just standing here talking.
00:18:25.940 You're the one disrupting.
00:18:26.960 No, I'm not.
00:18:27.740 You're disrupting by coming in and going against what we believe.
00:18:31.740 Which is to abolish the police.
00:18:33.240 I'm not touching you.
00:18:34.680 How does that help anyone?
00:18:37.080 How does that help any...
00:18:38.540 Army.
00:18:39.480 So, as you can see...
00:18:40.860 Hey, hey, hey.
00:18:41.700 Don't touch the equipment.
00:18:43.240 You punched the microphone.
00:18:45.240 You punched the microphone.
00:18:46.000 I didn't do nothing wrong.
00:18:47.320 I got my hand in front of your camera.
00:18:49.040 Sir, if you didn't do nothing wrong, that means you did something wrong.
00:18:51.720 You used a double negative.
00:18:53.060 I'm sorry you're not educated.
00:18:54.360 Hey, hey, hey, hey, take your hand.
00:18:57.380 Take your hand.
00:18:58.240 Don't even go.
00:18:59.820 Everybody back off.
00:19:01.140 So, you can see it's open season.
00:19:05.200 Don't touch me.
00:19:05.980 And you're the one that punched my microphone, sir.
00:19:08.900 That's vandalism.
00:19:10.400 Don't touch me.
00:19:11.980 So, anyways.
00:19:12.860 Don't touch me.
00:19:13.360 So, I'm not sure how much we're capturing folks.
00:19:16.200 But this is par for the course with these Antifa wannabes, you know.
00:19:24.360 I think this is the definition of harassment.
00:19:29.880 You can't...
00:19:30.880 Oh, hi.
00:19:34.660 We've got another gender... 1.00
00:19:36.180 Touch my f***ing elder.
00:19:37.900 Your elder?
00:19:38.440 You're an elder.
00:19:43.920 So, again, I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish aside from making themselves look like infants.
00:19:50.600 How are you?
00:19:54.300 You tell me, my friend.
00:19:55.940 I don't know.
00:19:56.560 You look good.
00:19:57.000 Sounds like we're all pretty sick, aren't we?
00:19:58.840 Get out of here.
00:19:59.860 We're all sick, my friend.
00:20:02.340 Get out of here, man.
00:20:04.020 Give a space.
00:20:04.700 Don't f***ing touch me.
00:20:05.720 Give a space.
00:20:05.960 I'm in a public square, my friend.
00:20:10.120 Come on.
00:20:10.880 Let's go.
00:20:11.900 Let's go.
00:20:12.340 Oh, f***er.
00:20:13.140 Come on, man.
00:20:29.520 Come on, man.
00:20:31.640 Come on.
00:20:33.640 Touch me again, buddy.
00:20:34.540 Do you know?
00:20:35.440 I'm a chairman.
00:20:38.160 Let the f***er. 1.00
00:20:39.040 Let's go.
00:20:41.240 You want to touch women? 1.00
00:20:44.340 I don't think our women is not okay.
00:20:47.120 Touch me.
00:20:49.320 We won't stoop to your level.
00:20:51.960 You got that now?
00:20:53.320 How dare you?
00:20:54.500 We will not stoop to your violence.
00:20:57.400 You f***ing demons.
00:20:59.860 We've been separated from some members of our team.
00:21:04.040 It is completely lawless here.
00:21:07.540 There's some police right there.
00:21:09.200 Let's see if I flog them over. 0.95
00:21:11.420 They do anything.
00:21:14.280 Hey, police.
00:21:15.440 Police.
00:21:16.400 Police.
00:21:17.140 Police.
00:21:17.960 Look at this.
00:21:19.520 Look at this.
00:21:20.700 I guess they have to enforce the Bay Street clear lane or something.
00:21:25.220 The cops are running away from the crime.
00:21:28.700 We came here today with seven private professional insured security so we could do journalism.
00:21:53.080 We briefed ourselves on various laws and we were compliant throughout.
00:22:00.040 We went through the law.
00:22:00.960 No swearing.
00:22:01.920 No troublemaking.
00:22:04.540 And we simply stood in there to report.
00:22:07.900 And our security did their best but they were overwhelmed and there was a fisticuff.
00:22:12.580 I'd like to go back and calmly stand in the town square and do a five-minute news report but I was driven out despite spending thousands of dollars on private security.
00:22:26.760 Now that you guys are here, I wonder if I can walk back into the town square of my city peacefully in compliance with all laws and exercise my right as a journalist.
00:22:40.120 All right, you don't have to put that in my face.
00:22:44.220 So, we were talking to the security over there, right?
00:22:48.740 They were saying that some of the words you guys were saying and using were antagonizing the crowd there.
00:22:54.620 It's not true.
00:22:55.500 What words?
00:22:55.960 I didn't even talk to them.
00:22:57.900 I didn't even talk to them.
00:22:58.660 Did you say anything to them?
00:22:59.940 I didn't say, not a word.
00:23:01.820 The security weren't even there.
00:23:03.440 So, the security didn't hear anything.
00:23:05.400 The security never came to help.
00:23:07.440 They were always at least 100 feet away.
00:23:09.140 So, they physically could not have heard things.
00:23:12.000 I proactively went to the security to ask for assistance.
00:23:16.300 I was told I had to leave under the trespass and I said, what have I done?
00:23:21.500 And she couldn't say it.
00:23:22.540 So, what I'm saying here is, and I'm happy to go alone or send David alone.
00:23:27.400 The reason we brought seven people with us is because our journalists were threatened yesterday and I thought, I can't have our journalists being beat up.
00:23:35.880 So, will you either allow me or hopefully walk with me so I stand in front of my city hall as a journalist and do a five-minute news report in front of my city hall, completely compliant with the law and separated by a band of blue steel from the protesters?
00:23:56.580 So, right now, I've got to talk to the city hall security again.
00:24:02.180 They advised me that they had trespassed you guys from the property.
00:24:06.300 Do you guys want to do your journalism?
00:24:08.000 Yeah.
00:24:09.200 We don't take offense to that.
00:24:10.560 Blessed are the peacemakers.
00:24:11.680 I think you could fix this by letting us go out.
00:24:15.760 Those guys don't...
00:24:17.280 I want to stand...
00:24:19.400 Why don't you guys, like, stand...
00:24:21.820 Because this is my city.
00:24:22.880 No, no, no.
00:24:24.340 I'm going to go on the other side of the ramp.
00:24:27.320 I'll keep 20 feet away from the bad guys.
00:24:30.540 And I'm going to use my Section 2B charter right to report the news in my city.
00:24:36.980 So, you're free to report the news.
00:24:38.260 That's not the problem at all.
00:24:39.320 And I'm also free to stand on the town square.
00:24:42.740 I'm not going to explode.
00:24:44.180 David's not going to explode.
00:24:45.480 My cameramen aren't going to explode.
00:24:47.080 And my professional licensed security certainly aren't going to explode.
00:24:49.800 There are some explosive people in here.
00:24:51.900 But the law touches explosive people, not explosive incidents.
00:24:56.380 And I'm not leaving because some guy explodes at me.
00:24:58.740 The law also touches about breaching of the peace.
00:25:03.220 I haven't breached the peace at all.
00:25:05.220 If you want to take the position, officer, and I know you don't,
00:25:07.960 that a peaceful, quiet news report on the town square is breaching the peace,
00:25:13.380 that's a law that needs to be tested.
00:25:15.060 Let's just go and do some journalism, officer.
00:25:17.020 Let me speak to the security.
00:25:18.260 Give me a quick second.
00:25:19.140 Sure.
00:25:19.300 And if you also want to call Colonel Sanders, he has about as much authority as these mall cops.
00:25:24.720 But you do what you got to do.
00:25:26.020 We all got to work together.
00:25:26.840 We all have to work together.
00:25:27.780 Blessed are the peacemakers.
00:25:28.980 You're the best.
00:25:29.640 I like that guy.
00:25:31.720 I like him too.
00:25:32.400 I'm going to do a news report on my town square where I pay taxes every day.
00:25:37.820 That's just happening, whether I do it with the cops, with the security, or by my lonesome.
00:25:41.920 It's happening.
00:25:42.480 All right, we spoke to the security there.
00:25:56.260 They said at 1234, they trespassed all of you guys.
00:26:02.400 So here's what I'm going to do.
00:26:05.740 I'm going to walk there now.
00:26:07.760 And that'll go one of three ways, I think.
00:26:10.120 One is, I'll go by myself and I'll probably get attacked.
00:26:15.560 That won't be good.
00:26:16.980 The other is, you come with me and I don't think they're going to lay a glove on you.
00:26:21.760 But I know how tough it is to be a cop these days.
00:26:23.820 They're filming everything.
00:26:24.680 They're going to try and get you.
00:26:25.820 It's tough.
00:26:27.160 The third is, you arrest me.
00:26:29.500 Oh, I don't want that to happen.
00:26:31.120 But I am ready for that to happen.
00:26:33.260 Because the only reason I'm here with 15 of my friends is because we were shooed away from the town square yesterday.
00:26:40.100 And I thought the president of the company himself is going to come down and prove that in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist can go peacefully.
00:26:48.920 So if that is not true, we need to know it.
00:26:52.360 And if I get personally attacked, we need to know it.
00:26:55.300 If I get arrested, we need to know it.
00:26:57.580 So I'm going to do that now.
00:26:59.060 I'm explaining to you what security told me.
00:27:01.060 If you're not happy with their...
00:27:02.400 I'm not interested in playing legal games with mall cops, officer.
00:27:05.220 So unless you have any last-minute things to say, I am now going to walk with my bravest cameraman and David.
00:27:12.580 I'm going to walk to the stairs.
00:27:14.140 I hope I don't get beat up.
00:27:15.560 I hope I don't get arrested.
00:27:17.160 Those are two possibilities.
00:27:19.120 I hope you guys will just walk with me to the stairs.
00:27:22.060 I'll do five minutes of journalism.
00:27:23.520 And then I'll call it a day.
00:27:25.380 Just to be clear, if I get a trespass...
00:27:26.700 So Moak, are you coming? 1.00
00:27:28.640 Just to be clear.
00:27:29.640 I thought that was a magnificent performance of, I guess, outdoor lawyering.
00:27:35.980 We're asserting ourselves.
00:27:37.720 You can already hear the moans from the sacred circle of the Autonomous City.
00:27:43.000 And we're being met with the mall cops, for lack of a better term.
00:27:49.180 Ezra Levant here for rebelnews.com.
00:27:52.000 I'm standing in the town square of Toronto.
00:27:56.480 Corporate security, we're trespassing you from the property for causing disturbance.
00:28:00.840 I haven't caused a disturbance.
00:28:01.920 Stop lying, please.
00:28:02.980 Please stop lying.
00:28:04.520 Please don't lie on TV.
00:28:05.560 You're interfering with this peaceful demonstration.
00:28:08.160 Please don't lie on TV.
00:28:09.120 No, you've got to go.
00:28:09.780 Please don't lie.
00:28:10.540 You've got to go.
00:28:10.880 You have to go.
00:28:11.680 No, I don't.
00:28:12.280 You leave the property.
00:28:13.280 Well, here's my lawyer.
00:28:14.080 You can talk to him, okay?
00:28:15.420 I'm going to keep doing my work.
00:28:19.020 If you guys want to interfere.
00:28:20.120 What's your name?
00:28:20.660 What's your name?
00:28:22.120 Show me your ID.
00:28:23.360 I don't believe you.
00:28:24.400 Show me your ID.
00:28:25.820 Well, right here.
00:28:26.580 This is mine.
00:28:27.320 Right here.
00:28:27.720 I can't see your name.
00:28:28.800 Stop hiding your name.
00:28:30.000 Yusuf Kassam.
00:28:31.060 And what grounds are you ejecting me?
00:28:33.480 I'm asking you to leave.
00:28:34.060 You've already seen my ID.
00:28:35.500 Asking me to leave is in the grounds.
00:28:36.800 All right.
00:28:37.280 Talk to my lawyer or talk to one of the kids.
00:28:39.740 Okay, sir.
00:28:40.780 They trash you in the ass.
00:28:42.440 Let me just do my report and then I'll get out of here.
00:28:44.900 If you want to arrest me, go ahead.
00:28:45.900 I'm not.
00:28:46.400 Ezra Levant here for rebelnews.com.
00:28:49.820 I'm standing in a very strange place.
00:28:52.180 Normally, it's the town square of my own city.
00:28:55.940 But today, it's an encampment, a rather gross, urine-soaked encampment of protesters, rather incoherent.
00:29:02.380 We sent reporters here yesterday to try and have a conversation with them, but it was not useful.
00:29:07.840 Then mall security, I'm calling them mall security because that's what they are, told our people to leave.
00:29:13.700 Now, that's not what the law says.
00:29:15.380 What disappointed me the most is that a Toronto city policeman said if we didn't leave, we would be charged under the trespass laws.
00:29:25.840 Now, I contacted Aaron Rosenberg, our lawyer, and we went through the trespass laws very carefully.
00:29:31.340 And he confirmed that there are certain grounds you have to violate before being trespassed, and we didn't violate those.
00:29:39.080 So today, this morning, we had a staff meeting going through those laws, and we came back.
00:29:43.820 Well, you saw the footage of the mini-riot that happened, and our seven private security guards were actually attacked.
00:29:51.220 And I don't blame them for saying, we've got to get out of here.
00:29:53.180 The cops weren't around.
00:29:54.480 Luckily, four of Toronto's finest did finally come.
00:29:58.600 And after some attempts at negotiation, I told them one of three things is going to happen.
00:30:04.580 I'm going to come back down here, myself, alone, and get beat up.
00:30:08.520 I'm going to come back down here with their protection.
00:30:10.780 Thank God that's what we're doing.
00:30:12.100 Or the third option is they'd arrest me.
00:30:14.060 I'm very glad it's ending without arrest, although the day's not done.
00:30:17.060 That's about it for me.
00:30:18.440 This isn't an interesting story.
00:30:20.240 I mean, these protesters are a rent-a-mob.
00:30:21.960 They're not interesting in any way.
00:30:24.040 What is an interesting story is how John Tory's Toronto has rolled out the red carpet for lawlessness
00:30:30.240 and is cracking down on journalists peacefully doing their profession.
00:30:35.560 What have we learned today, folks?
00:30:37.440 Do we have free speech in Canada?
00:30:38.940 I think we do.
00:30:39.640 But it's kind of like Diet Coke or free speech light, if you will.
00:30:44.640 It's not the full meal deal.
00:30:46.920 It's not the First Amendment like our American cousins have.
00:30:52.040 We got our little five minutes and then we get the bums rush. 1.00
00:30:57.680 I'm not blaming the individual police officers.
00:30:59.920 This is the bailiwick of John Tory and his spineless leadership in the city of Toronto.
00:31:08.360 I regret that our private security took some punches.
00:31:14.080 I have to say Toronto's police did the right thing in the end.
00:31:18.500 I understand Toronto police wanting to negotiate, wanting to have a diplomatic solution,
00:31:26.600 but that's not how it is between a bank robber and a bank teller.
00:31:32.020 That's not how it is between a fireman and a fire.
00:31:34.960 There's right and wrong and there's lawful and unlawful.
00:31:38.260 And committing acts of journalism in the public town square, that's lawful.
00:31:44.220 All right.
00:31:45.120 What a great day.
00:31:46.180 Thanks, everybody, for your support.
00:31:47.760 If you want to help cover the costs of our seven private security, it's a big bill.
00:31:52.000 Go to journalistdefensefund.com.
00:31:54.480 Thanks, officers.
00:31:58.480 Thank you very much.
00:32:08.140 You better not.
00:32:09.420 You better not.
00:32:10.640 You make contact.
00:32:12.180 You're going to go to jail.
00:32:13.640 You're going to.
00:32:14.600 I know.
00:32:24.480 I know.
00:32:25.240 I know.
00:32:28.320 I know.
00:32:28.700 I know.
00:32:29.680 I know.
00:32:29.860 But I know.
00:32:30.300 I know.
00:32:30.560 Whatever rep minuses.
00:32:30.960 I know.
00:32:31.320 I know.
00:32:31.500 I know.
00:32:32.320 I know.
00:32:35.820 I know.
00:32:37.040 I know.
00:32:37.260 I know.
00:32:37.800 I know.
00:32:38.240 I know.
00:32:39.120 I know.
00:32:41.760 I aventure.
00:32:42.200 I know.
00:32:42.900 I know.
00:32:43.820 I know.
00:32:44.180 I know.
00:32:44.660 It's awesome.
00:32:44.960 It's funny.
00:32:45.260 It's funny.
00:32:45.680 It's funny.
00:32:46.820 It's funny.
00:32:47.480 I know.
00:32:48.160 I know, I know.
00:32:48.460 I know.
00:32:49.540 He's just healthy.
00:32:50.300 If he said.
00:32:51.060 You know.
00:32:51.120 It's some guy.
00:32:51.660 It's funny.
00:32:52.300 I know.
00:32:53.020 I've never heard you know.
00:32:53.280 I know.
00:32:53.980 Thank you.
00:33:23.980 Thank you.