Tommy Robinson loses his court case against the Cambridgeshire police. What really happened?
Summary
Tommy Robinson loses his court case against the Cambridgeshire police. I give you my review of my three days in Peterborough, UK, and I interview Tommy himself. I also talk about Tommy's love of Luton and his love of football.
Transcript
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Hey, Rebels. Big podcast today. I talk about Tommy Robinson's trial. I've been over there
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in Peterborough in the United Kingdom. That's how they say Peterborough. Tommy was on trial.
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He was actually not the one on trial. He was taking the Cambridgeshire police to trial
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for harassing him. But today, Tommy lost that case. I give you my review of my three days
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over there, and I interview Tommy himself. Hey, I'd love it if you could sign up for
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without further ado, here's my report from Tommy's trial.
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You're listening to a Rebel Media podcast. Tonight, Tommy Robinson loses his court case
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against the Cambridgeshire police. What happened? It's the Ides of March, and you're watching
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
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Forgive me for my absence these past three days. As I mentioned when I spoke to you last, Tommy
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Robinson called me up at 7 a.m. on Monday morning and said, Ed's, I'm going to court in Peterborough
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suing the Cambridgeshire constabulary for what they did to my family. Please come to report from the
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court. Oh, and by the way, the three-day trial starts tomorrow at 10 a.m., so can you please get
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on a plane right away? That's what he said. Of course, he said it in his own way. He said
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Peerborough instead of Peterborough. That's how they say it over there. I kept getting laughed
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at for saying Peterborough. I even made a little video of it. Let me show you a bit of the banter.
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Peterborough. I am from Canada, and there is a city in Canada called Peterborough. P-E-T-E-R-B-O-R-O-U-G.
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Peterborough. Are you from Peterborough? I'm from Peterborough. Well, here I am in Peterborough,
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United Kingdom, and I have been chided at great length by assorted Brits who, whenever I say
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Peterborough, it's like I've said, it's like I've said a four-letter word, except for it's got like
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10. So fellas, can you help me? It's not a four-letter word. How do you say it's not Peterborough?
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No, it's not Peterborough. Is it Peterborough? Peterborough. Peterborough. Are you even saying
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the T? Is it Peterborough? Peterborough. That's it. Okay, you said a T. Peterborough. Peterborough.
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Peterborough. Peterborough. Peterborough. Well, there's a fella here who wasn't even saying
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the T. Peterborough. Peterborough. Peterborough. Peterborough. Am I doing it? Some people just
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call it the borough. The borough. So I'm here in the borough. I'm from the borough. All right.
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I'm not making fun. They were making fun of me. I want to fit in. I want to fit. For the
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Rebel Not Media here in Peterborough, I'm asked for the land. Oh, and by the way, that sauce you
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put on steak, it's got Worcester. Worcestershire sauce. It's not Worcestershire. Peterborough.
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Sounds like kookaburra. Anyways, there was a lot of laughs. It's a lot of laughs, but the
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trial itself was extremely unfunny. Let me show you a bit of what it was about. I'm going
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to start by showing you three clips, all taken from Tommy Robinson's own cell phone. Now, all
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this happened just over two years ago in the summer of 2016. Tommy's a big football fan.
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That's what they call soccer over there, and he goes to the matches, both in his native
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Luton and when the team travels. In fact, when the trial ended one night, Tommy took me to
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a match between Luton, that's Tommy's team, and Bradford. Look how big the stadium is,
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eh? That's me looking very out of place, and I can't tell you how bitter cold it was, but
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I got a good feeling for what these football games are about. The teams on each side are
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very loyal and passionate. I mean, truly much more than anything we typically see here in
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Canada. Even during NHL playoffs, you don't see that kind of mania here. And the thing is,
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each team is that way. And a certain number of these football fans, especially when they drink
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a few pints, they get rowdy, and they can fight even with rival football teams. So even going to
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the Luton match with Tommy, I observed a few things. The stadium we went to has separate
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entrances for the fans from each team. The home fans and the visiting fans entered the stadium from
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different sides, at least in Bradford, and they sat on opposite sides of the stadium. And when there
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was a break, the fans went out to buy a hot dog or whatever, get a beer, or in this case,
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to buy a little meat pie. Isn't that funny? That's what they served. Everyone was holding these little
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meat pies. They were pretty good. The Luton fans had their food concessions, and the Bradford fans
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had their food concessions, so the fans didn't mix. Can you believe it? And last point, I thought this
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was interesting. Each team has their own hometown police force there. So I just took this from where I
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was sitting. For example, I was at the Luton versus Bradford match in Bradford, so obviously the police
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from Bradford would be there, but you see that there was a special football police squad in each
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city that travels to games on the road with each team. So there in Bradford, the Luton police had
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sent their own football cops to Bradford to help keep order. They call them football spotters,
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since they go to literally every game, and they get to know all the fans by name and face,
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police, and so they know who might cause trouble, and they have a long-standing rapport with the
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fans, good and bad. I took a picture of the Luton police in Bradford, and all the fans knew those
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police, because it's the same cops at every game, and the police knew all the fans. It's an interesting
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approach to policing. I tell you that by way of background, because my little experience at the
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freezing cold Luton match in Bradford, and Luton won, by the way, it was useful. It wasn't just fun,
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because back in 2016, in the case in question, in the lawsuit, I went over there to cover for Tommy.
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Tommy, he's a Luton fan. He had traveled up to Cambridge to watch Luton play Cambridge. Tommy
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went up there with a friend, and they each brought their kids. Tommy has three young kids,
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and they made a family day out of it. They went to some kids festival in the city,
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then they went to the stadium to watch the match, and then they went to a pub. And remember,
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a pub or a public house, as they're formally called in the UK, they're not really like our Canadian or
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American bars that are adults only. Yeah, they got a bar, but it's not like a nightclub or something.
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These pubs obviously do serve beer, but, and these are pictures from, those were pictures we were
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showing from the actual pub Tommy went to. They're really a place for families eating lunches,
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socializing with other families. It's quite a fun custom. It's different from what we do here in
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Canada. Families hang out there for hours. It's not a fast food place. They go there, they take their
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time. The opposite of fast food, really. And they have something to eat, sure, and they watch a match
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on TV, and they mill around, and they catch up with other families. It's a pretty fun tradition.
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Sometimes these pubs have hotel rooms upstairs, like half a dozen rooms or something. When I visited
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Tommy right after he got out of prison, you'll recall that's where I met him. You can see that pub
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life. People just hanging around. People hang out there all day. That's the place I met Tommy in
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Bradfordshire. It's a family place, but of course they serve beer. Anyway, I'm trying to paint a
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picture for you of what these pubs are like, because if I said a bar, I think you might get
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the wrong picture. I mean, yes, they have beer there, but it's like a day-long hangout for
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families. Tommy was spending the day with his kids and his friends and their kids, and like I say,
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they stay in this pub for hours, and the kids all hang out with each other, and they play with each
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other, and every parent sort of keeps an eye out for every kid. I've seen it at that pub in
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Bedfordshire that I've just shown you, the one I've been with Tommy a few times, and the kids
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get bored, and they run around a bit, but maybe they play outside a bit if there's a park, but
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they're all together. It's a real weekend kind of thing to do. Anyway, that's my brief experience
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in the UK. I tell you all this because on that fateful day two and a half years ago, Tommy was at
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a pub in Cambridge with its kids, and he was in full family mode. No drinking. I know that to be the
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case. Tommy doesn't touch a drop of alcohol when he's with his family, and he hadn't had anything to
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drink all day. It was a kid's day, and I say that to distinguish him from stereotypical football
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hooligans who are a factor in British football, but Tommy isn't that way. At the Bradford game
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I went to with him, he just watches the game, he cheers, he sings some of their chants, and he talks
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with everyone, and they all seem to know each other, and all the fans know each other, and they know the
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police. It's quite a thing. I don't think we have that in Canada, that communal feeling. NHL fans don't
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have the same camaraderie. They don't travel to see every single away game of their home team in
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communal buses with the same police riding along, really. We don't have that here. It's quite
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interesting to a Canuck like me. Anyways, on that fateful day in 2016, Tommy took his kids to the
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match, then afterwards they went to the pub, where Tommy watched another match on TV, a team called
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Manchester United, you've probably heard of them, and then the police came in, and they came up to Tommy
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and said, leave the pub now, or you'll get arrested. Now, it was 6.30 p.m., the match on TV with
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Manchester United, it was going to end in half an hour anyways. Tommy was with his family, but the
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cops from Cambridgeshire just said, hey, you, out of the pub now, or you'll get arrested. Tommy asked
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why, and they didn't give him an answer. He asked again, they responded that if he kept asking, they'd
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arrest him right there by serving him a form called a Section 35 dispersal notice. That's a fancy way
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of saying being arrested for anti-social behavior. That's a thing in the UK. Tommy engaged with the
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police, and he recorded it on his cell phone, and for good reason, as I'll tell you later here. Watch
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about two minutes of the interaction with the cops. This is from Tommy's cell phone that was later
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uploaded to YouTube. There are some notes on this video written, I think, by one of Tommy's friends,
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Brian. So take a look for a second. What sort of law tells a man with his children he has to leave
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the city? What is that about? What is that about? What is that about? Freedom, democracy, Britain,
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what's that about? It's quite simple. Do you want me to explain it? Tell me why then. Tell me why.
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The situation is, because of the lessons we've learned in the past, we know that if certain
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groups stay within the city, then it causes violence. I'm with my children. I'm with my children.
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So tell me what you're saying. I'm not having an interview. I've already told you. So you're
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telling me what? I've told you already. Are you going to leave? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Are you
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going to leave immediately? I'm with my children, and you're telling me I have to leave immediately. Are
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you going to leave? Or what? You're going to get a section 35 dispersal notice. Right. Okay,
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we'll give you a 35. Tell me what? I'm with my children. I'm with my children. Hold on,
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hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm with my children. Stop getting a thing up your face. I'm not
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being interviewed by you. That's fine, that's fine. No, you tell me why. You tell me why.
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No, no. You'll get it on the form. It'll be explained to me. Tell me why I have to leave.
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I'm going to get a form now. Tell me why. Listen, I'm going to. No, no, officer, officer.
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Take that camera up my face. I'm not being interviewed by you. This isn't crime watch.
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I'm with my children. You're telling me I have to leave. Why? Why? Because there's
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likely to be disorder. Get off the hand. Don't assault me. Tell me why. Tell me why I have
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to leave. Stop shouting at me. Tell me why I've got to leave. It'll be explained to you when
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you get yourself to leave. How are you drawing a jurisdiction to where I do and don't go with
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my kids? Tell me. Tell me the reason. Shush. I'm trying to talk on my radio. Hold on, you've
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told me I've got to leave. Do you want me to take your hand away from him?
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He's touching my hand. I'm minding my own business. I'm minding my own business. You've come off
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the street to where I'm having a private drink with my family and you're telling me I have
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to leave. Don't leave, mate. I can't talk. We're upstairs. Tell me why I have to leave.
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Mate, you know this is ridiculous, eh? You're from Newton. You know this is ridiculous.
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Tell me why I have to leave. At the end of the day, the boss has authorised a section 35.
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But we've already cleared it. Why? And we're allowed to stay.
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You haven't cleared it with the boss, have you? You haven't cleared it with the boss,
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have you? So Tommy was pretty irate. I mean, I think you might be too if you were interrupted
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at a restaurant where you were with your family and told to get out immediately or be arrested.
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That's what the form was. We'll give you a form 35. If he had been drunk or disorderly
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or fighting with rival teams, fair play. But none of that was the case. In fact, he was
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apart from most of the Luton fans. He was upstairs in the pub. Most were downstairs.
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The landlady of the pub, who didn't know Tommy, remember this was in Cambridge, not Tommy's
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hometown of Luton. The landlady came over and told the cops, this guy's fine. He's just
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been sitting here peacefully with his kids all day. Here, listen to this clip.
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I'm the area manager of the security company. The group that you're throwing out have been
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in the Prince Regent today with their children. There's no problems at all in there. So come
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in here. My head of security. He's saying that they've not closed the door.
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Shall I have a chat with you away from this, all right? No, away from you.
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Why, why, why? Because you don't want people hearing the truth.
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No, I don't want to talk to you. No, you don't want to hear people. No, she's telling you,
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she's telling you she's seen my family all day.
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You heard her. He's been there all day with his family, children. No problem. He's been
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no problem. You'd think that would be the end of it. I mean, this landlady had no stake
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in this other than she wants an orderly restaurant safe. And sure, she wants her paying customers.
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So you'd think if Tommy had been in the slightest way a problem, the landlady would say, oh,
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thank God, officer, you're here. Get him out. She'd be grateful to the cops for kicking him
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up, but the opposite. She was saying, why are you kicking out one of my paying customers?
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He's been here all day with his family. I wonder if they even had the right to do so.
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I mean, what if she instead had kicked the cops out?
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Puppet's private property. I wonder what would have happened if the landlady would have told
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the cops, please get off my private property or I'll come for you for press, trespass,
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and please leave my peaceful paying customers alone. I wonder what have happened,
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would have happened in that alternate universe. But she didn't do that. And as you can see,
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the cop didn't even really listen to her. He just made his decision. And if Tommy didn't
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like it, he should take it up with the boss. Tommy grudgingly complied. And when he and
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his kids left the pub, the police now said, OK, now get out of the city. Get out of the
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entire city. Leave the city. Go to the train station and get out now. Now, unlike when Tommy
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Tommy was talking to the cops, Tommy's kids were right there now. So Tommy wasn't as vocally
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irate anymore. He was trying to be calm and controlled because he didn't want to upset his
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kids. So watch this part right when they're leaving the pub. He's with his kids. So Tommy's
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tone is lower. But they're saying get out of the city.
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Look at all the way I'm playing. The whole time? You know what I should do?
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You ready kids? Come on, bro. Let's go. You get over there? Let's go over there? Yeah.
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Yeah? That's all right. Come on girls. Alright.
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Let's get down. Don't I get the tissue and we have to go. Come on. Come on, bro.
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We've got five kids with us, so obviously we're causing loads of trouble and we've got to get out.
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Anyways, Tommy did indeed, as you can see, walk to the train station and the police,
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well, they followed him and they didn't just follow him.
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One of them took out a video camera and ostentatiously started recording him with his kids right there.
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You could see he was walking to the railway station.
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And then his girls started to cry and then Tommy got mad in front of his kids for the first time.
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Darling, my daughter's crying her eyes out now, lads.
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Funny thing, that police videographer, surprise, he deleted his own videotape.
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Even though he testified in court that he was the official evidence gatherer.
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That video cop testified and said, under oath, that depending on the situation, he is obligated
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to keep evidence for at least 28 days, or even, he said, in some cases, up to 100 years.
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But in this case, he felt the video was of no relevance or interest.
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You can watch the whole 17-minute YouTube interaction of Tommy and the police as uploaded
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by Tommy's friend to the internet, and that's recorded on Tommy's phone.
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Tommy says it ended only when his cell phone battery ran out.
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But because, for example, Tommy said that his daughter was so upset by the police following
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her and videotaping her that she actually started to run out into the street.
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And he knew that would be corroborated by the police video that captured it all.
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But alas, the cop thought it was irrelevant, so he deleted it.
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You know, I haven't practiced law in a long time, but if you delete evidence, hide something
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from the court, in Canada at least, there's a presumption that you were hiding something
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If you're going to play silly games like that, the court is going to assume the worst
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Assume it was damning, but that didn't happen here.
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Anyway, so I attended the trial for three days.
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I just got back to Toronto Lake last night, and the judge actually released her judgment
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And I read about it through the website of the Cambridgeshire Live, a local newspaper.
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They had a young reporter, Freddie Lynn, who actually was sitting next to me the whole
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So he was in court still today, and he was typing things up, and I relied on him for what
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And I learned today that the judge, in fact, ruled against Tommy.
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Not only did the judge throw out Tommy's lawsuit, but Tommy has to pay the lawyer for the police,
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and apparently he has to pay the police themselves.
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But Tommy told me he doesn't just have to pay for their lawyers, but the police, a total
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of, if Tommy, if I heard him right, a total of 38,000 pounds, which is over 60,000 Canadian
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Now, I'm mad at the police for their obvious strong arm tactics.
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Kicking a guy out of a restaurant for no reason at all.
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I'm mad at the judge for what she believed and what she refused to believe from the trial.
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For example, she specifically said that she did not believe that Tommy's kids were with
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The pub's landlady, I showed you the video, said that they were.
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I am satisfied that children were not in the public house, but on the green.
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The judge said they weren't in the pub, but everyone else who was there says they were.
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The landlady, Tommy, you saw with your own eyes.
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A Luton police spotter named Constable Mason, that's one of those Luton cops that travels
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with the Luton team, testified that he saw Tommy with the kids.
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He said it under oath, but the judge actually said she thinks that Luton cop was mistaken.
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You saw the cop hear from the landlady that Tommy was fine.
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At the court, when asked why he kicked out Tommy, if there were no problems, he told this
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laughable story about how he had bumped into someone on the street.
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Sargent Street of the Cambridgeshire cops said that he bumped into someone on the street,
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a drunk fan who, he claimed, uttered something about, you better watch out for that Tommy
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This alleged comment by an anonymous drunk on the street was Intel.
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Oh, by the way, that he didn't remember until much later.
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But his own observations of Tommy being sober, hearing the landlady saying everything was
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fine, the kids were there, that apparently is mistaken.
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An imaginary friend told him Tommy was a risk, and that was more powerful than the landlady's.
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The judge said, the policing I've described above, the policing that's shown in Tommy's
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video for 17 minutes, you can find the whole thing online.
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In fact, Tommy owes them money now, not the other way around.
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I was very careful to get it right, word for word.
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This is the definition of a risk supporter, a football hooligan that's at risk.
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If you're at risk, they can arrest you on site.
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This is how a cop defined being a risk supporter to Tommy's lawyer.
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This is the European Union definition that he follows.
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Mason, the cop said, any person, known or not, that has the capability or possibility
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of public order or antisocial behavior, whether that's spontaneous or pre-planned at any football event.
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That just means any person who has the possibility of being antisocial, even in a spontaneous manner.
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Isn't that literally any human being in the world?
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Isn't it true that any human has the possibility of being antisocial on a spontaneous basis?
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I mean, I guess not for a baby in a pram or something, but literally any adult could be arrested under that.
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The form is the Section 35 Dispersal Order for Antisocial Behavior.
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You know, am I doing something wrong right now?
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Can you tell me when I'm doing something wrong?
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If you keep asking me why I'm arresting you, I'm going to arrest you.
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He's just the same in person as he is in the bar there.
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To arrest someone because they might possibly do something in the future that's antisocial.
00:24:36.080
She accepted the imaginary friend warning the cop about Tommy as a reason to arrest him,
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but she dismissed the landlady's comments by saying,
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That is evidence that is relevant, but it's not everything.
00:25:05.080
She's referring, the landlady is referring to how they had been,
00:25:13.080
Well, sure, the landlady said Tommy was fine all day.
00:25:23.080
But she didn't have a crystal ball to know he would still be fine for the last hour of the game.
00:25:28.080
The judge said, well, you know, he might suddenly have gone berserk.
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But there was one more thing that was incredible.
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In fact, my live tweets from the court over the course of three days,
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according to Twitter analytics, were cumulatively viewed 13 million times.
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And you could tell that the police and the lawyers were obsessed by what I was typing.
00:26:03.080
I mean, my friend Freddie from the Cambridge Sure Live was doing a good enough job, but 13 million views.
00:26:13.080
During a break in the court, I was standing near a cop, the one who had threatened to arrest Tommy.
00:26:20.080
And I asked him a couple questions, including if he had any regrets.
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And the cops just all went back into the court to move away from me.
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But then those cops literally complained to the judge claiming I was intimidating them.
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So stalking Tommy and his kids, including making his young daughter cry, that's good policing.
00:26:45.080
But these three big bad men asking them, hey, guys, do you regret it?
00:26:54.080
So the judge interrupted the trial the first day and cautioned me to stop being so intimidating.
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Okay, I'll stop intimidating Cambridge's finest.
00:27:06.080
But I apologize to the judge for causing her a headache in her own court.
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And then the cops or someone must have complained again.
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Because the judge stopped the proceedings later and ordered the entire public gallery to leave the court.
00:27:22.080
The judge wasn't in the, then the judge left the court.
00:27:25.080
The judge wasn't in the court at that moment, actually.
00:27:27.080
But she had the clerk or the usher ask every journalist, ask all the public to leave, and then ask the remaining people, including the journalists, to show their journalism license or some sort of registration card they have over there, like a permit.
00:27:43.080
The court was asking everyone to prove they were licensed to commit journalism.
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Well, here in Canada, we don't require a license to do journalism.
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We're not like Romania, where during the Cold War, you literally had to register your typewriter with the government and get a license because they didn't want anyone typing anything that could cause trouble.
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So I told the court, I said, look, we don't have journalism permits in Canada.
00:28:10.080
But what was so gross, what was so sad was the speed, the glee, the pride with which the rest of the journalists in the room, including my friend Freddie, whipped out their licenses.
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Proud to prove they were compliant and submissive.
00:28:29.080
Anyways, the judge came back in, raised an eyebrow about my point that we don't need licenses here in Canada.
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And then she gave a very explicit warning to me directly that I had better stop tweeting any opinions.
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I couldn't question goofy things like a cop and his imaginary friend.
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I couldn't express an opinion at all in my tweets.
00:28:51.080
Obviously, I didn't say anything during the trial.
00:28:53.080
She said that I couldn't say any opinions on Twitter at all.
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And that her ban didn't just apply to what I said from typing in court.
00:29:03.080
But if I was outside the court, like if I made a video, she said that she didn't want me to have any opinions at all on the trial until the ruling came out.
00:29:13.080
And I didn't want to take out any more of the court's time.
00:29:15.080
So I said, look, I'll do my best to just be a stenographer.
00:29:18.080
I didn't want to push this trial off the rails or anything.
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But I guess that wasn't good enough because after the trial ended on the second day, Wednesday, I was asked to go back into the courtroom.
00:29:28.080
And it was just me then, the judge, the two clerks, the two lawyers, the clerk and the usher, and me.
00:29:36.080
And the judge told me at great length that if I kept giving my opinions, which I guess I was doing, she'd hold me in contempt of court.
00:29:51.080
I didn't come to Peterborough to quarrel with her.
00:29:58.080
To be candid, I have no idea how my tweets could possibly interfere with her trial.
00:30:03.080
There was no jury that might sneak a peek in my tweets.
00:30:05.080
It's laughable that my tweets could be intimidating to these big burly cops or something.
00:30:11.080
So I don't even know why tweeting would impact the trial.
00:30:14.080
I mean, unless they're all watching my tweets, why would they do that?
00:30:18.080
Now, like I said, I have tweeted hundreds of little updates.
00:30:21.080
So I asked her, well, was there anything in particular you're mad about?
00:30:24.080
And she mentioned a couple, including this one, where I had made a self-deprecating joke.
00:30:30.080
I said, hopefully this won't get me thrown in the dungeon.
00:30:37.080
Obviously, that's not going to intimidate a police officer.
00:30:42.080
It was a self-deprecating joke about me and my big mouth.
00:30:45.080
But the judge obviously didn't even like the joke.
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I'm not even sure what was wrong with that tweet, but I deleted it.
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And I told her, look, just tell me what you want me to delete.
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Go there to get in a quarrel in a foreign country.
00:31:09.080
I thought I'd tell you that because that was probably the saddest part of the whole experience
00:31:13.080
First, that the UK has allowed itself to be governed by laws that allow police to simply
00:31:18.080
arrest anyone for anything at any time, for what future crimes they might possibly commit.
00:31:22.080
Of course, that's going to be abused by bully cops.
00:31:27.080
Even sadder was the general political media culture.
00:31:30.080
That to the establishment, to lawyers, politicians, the media, the courts, everyone, having unrestricted
00:31:40.080
And threatening to hold a journalist in contempt and possibly throw him, me, in prison for expressing
00:31:45.080
an opinion on Twitter or a dumb joke, that's just fine.
00:31:52.080
Listen, look, I like visiting the UK, I like my friend Tommy, but I sure wouldn't want to
00:31:57.080
And I want to do my best to make sure that we here in Canada and in the States, too, don't
00:32:03.080
By the way, one of the reasons we're fighting Rachel Notley in court so hard in Alberta is
00:32:08.080
that she wants us to register our billboards with the government, like it's a Romanian typewriter,
00:32:21.080
Next is an interview I did today via Skype with Tommy from his car at the side of the road
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Okay, Tommy, we got 4,000 people online, but I'll invite more to come.
00:33:00.080
Maybe you could hold it a little further away from your...
00:33:11.080
I just read from Freddie Lynn's blog in Cambridgeshire Live that you have lost the case
00:33:18.080
and have been ordered to pay £20,000 to the Cambridgeshire police.
00:33:23.080
£20,000 within 14 days and then I've got to pay a further £18,000.
00:33:36.080
£38,000 so that they can drive me from a city centre.
00:33:41.080
The police, the Luton intelligence police officer stood in court and said I was of no risk.
00:33:57.080
That she found that they acted within the law by forcefully ejecting me and my children from an entire city.
00:34:13.080
I explained to them at the beginning of the show and we talked about this briefly.
00:34:19.080
I already told you that we'd be happy to share.
00:34:26.080
I had actually spoken to Tommy yesterday when I was in the UK about doing a super chat with him.
00:34:31.080
Let's get Tommy some money right now, right now, for his legal defence.
00:34:46.080
Now, that is, I believe, they know I've got a case coming about my treatment in prison,
00:34:53.080
about my unlawful detention and the way I was held.
00:35:00.080
To live simply, how is an average person supposed to take them to court?
00:35:04.080
And in what court, in what country can anyone watch that video that happened to me and my family
00:35:13.080
Even my enemies have been disgusted by what they've seen in that video.
00:35:21.080
So, folks, if you contribute a super chat, we'll pass on the dough to Tommy's solicitor, his lawyer.
00:35:29.080
So, if you do a super chat, we'll give the dough to cover Tommy's costs here.
00:35:34.080
If you put in a super chat of 50 quid or $50 or more, I'll read your question to Tommy right now.
00:35:53.080
I see people say, my money for Tommy, but not Ezra.
00:35:56.080
I'm telling you, I'm going to give this super chat dough to Tommy.
00:36:10.080
All that's done, I actually said in court to the judge at the end, I'd like to personally
00:36:16.080
The millions of people who have watched that video of that police behavior, to think that
00:36:20.080
the system here defends that behavior, you've just exposed yourself.
00:36:25.080
You've exposed the corruption of this legal system that defends those actions of those
00:36:32.080
Actions that my own police force, membership police, were disgusted by themselves.
00:36:39.080
Yet here, the judge, or the establishment, or the part of it, has completely defended the
00:36:49.080
I played for people three times the clip of the landlady saying you were fine.
00:36:55.080
And she specifically mentioned your kids were there.
00:36:58.080
But if I'm reading Cambridgeshire Live's blog from Freddie Lynn, the judge said she didn't
00:37:08.080
Even though Officer Mason, the looting police officer, said when he came into the premises,
00:37:20.080
She also said, now, Ezra White, I didn't draw attention to it, but when I'm leaving the
00:37:24.080
pub, you see my daughter run past in her looting top, coming from behind me.
00:37:29.080
I've never made a distinction of that, because I didn't want to draw attention to what my daughter
00:37:38.080
And then the police officer thinking, well, the two police officers said he was drunk.
00:37:42.080
He didn't mention the fact that they lied, that they said I was swearing at them, that
00:37:50.080
The judge might, oh, I'm frustrated by it, because it's just completely...
00:37:56.080
How can you watch that video and then order me to pay £40,000 for what they've done to
00:38:03.080
Well, one of the things that the judge said, and again, I was reading Freddie's live blog,
00:38:09.080
so I'm relying on him, but I think he's accurate.
00:38:11.080
He said the judge mentioned the landlady and said, sure.
00:38:15.080
She said Tommy was fine, but she didn't know how he would be in the future.
00:38:22.080
That's saying, well, sure, to say that, well, Tommy might possibly have suddenly done something
00:38:31.080
But the more I learn about this anti-social behavior section 35 orders, they basically can
00:38:38.080
I saw that Sergeant Streep from Cambridgeshire.
00:38:41.080
I thought he was extremely aggressive and arrogant in court, just like he was on that
00:38:57.080
This is the permission and the president of a case to say that, yes, without any evidence,
00:39:03.080
without any negative actions by an individual who's with his family, without doing anything
00:39:10.080
wrong, the police are within the law to forcefully eject them and video them as a family out of
00:39:18.080
You know, I was so frustrated and it just feels, you know, your autobiography is called Enemy
00:39:27.080
And you show that all the establishment, they all stick together.
00:39:32.080
The police, the prosecutors, the courts, the media, the politicians.
00:39:37.080
I feel like this is exhibit A in how they all collude.
00:39:44.080
I can't believe that the judge accepted that this imaginary fan who warned, hey, Sergeant
00:39:57.080
And to take, to give that weight, but to brush off the landlady, I'm shocked by this,
00:40:06.080
And to brush off the Luton intel officer whose job it is to give them intelligence on who's
00:40:13.080
The man that's known me for 15 years, the man that clearly tells her he is no risk.
00:40:23.080
In fact, the same police, the Home Office took a case against me two years ago where they
00:40:30.080
And they tried to ban me from my town centre and they used exactly what this police force have
00:40:40.080
Now, when Bedfordshire police come to court, they told the court, he's no risk.
00:40:52.080
And because of that, the government's case was thrown out.
00:40:55.080
But in this case, the judge has completely sided with their policing, which is insane.
00:41:07.080
You know, Tommy, I referred earlier to some parts of the deep south in the United States
00:41:13.080
before the civil rights movement where black families were treated roughly by the police
00:41:20.080
that the police would like, say, get out of town or get off the bus or get off this whites
00:41:26.080
only restaurant in the segregated south I'm talking about.
00:41:29.080
And that era is regarded as an unfair blight on American history.
00:41:38.080
I don't think, especially for the public authorities to treat black people as second class citizens.
00:41:44.080
Here we are in 2019 and the cops are ordering a peaceful man and his children to leave an establishment
00:41:57.080
And if you were black and if that were in Mississippi, that would be straight out of Mississippi burning.
00:42:04.080
If this would have happened to any minority family in Britain with their children crying and terrified, this would be well new.
00:42:24.080
I've got to go home now, Ezra, and tell my children.
00:42:33.080
What does that tell the kids about the police system in this country?
00:42:36.080
Now, Tommy, it's been a while since I practiced law.
00:42:41.080
But back 15 years ago when I took some matters to trial, if a party in a lawsuit deletes evidence,
00:42:52.080
if they have evidence and they delete it, throw it out, hide it, the court in Canada, and I don't know the law over there,
00:42:58.080
takes an adverse inference, which means if you delete something and hide it from the court, the court wants to punish you for deleting it,
00:43:13.080
The police video cop, the videographer, who followed your family down the road as they frog marched you to the railway station,
00:43:23.080
he videoed that whole thing, and we showed that clip earlier.
00:43:26.080
He testified, I was there in court, when he said he just deleted it, he said he thought it had no value as evidence, it wasn't interesting,
00:43:35.080
he didn't even remember when he deleted it, he might have deleted it the next day.
00:43:38.080
Did the judge say anything about that in her judgment?
00:43:42.080
In her judgment, she said that he didn't see any relevance to it.
00:43:47.080
Now, he's an intel officer, which means what he videos is for intelligent.
00:43:59.080
So that would have gone into an intel officer system, but he says he deleted it after 24 hours.
00:44:04.080
And Ezra, I'm telling you, they sat in court and said that I over-exaggerated.
00:44:09.080
My daughter was terrified, and she nearly ran into a road because of your police's action.
00:44:13.080
And then you're, and I'm sat in there, and you're making out like I'm the liar, and then I've got to pay you money.
00:44:19.080
The only thing that I take a little bit of, a little bit from this,
00:44:24.080
is that it completely exposes the entire system to everyone who's seen that video of my children.
00:44:29.080
To see that they've defended that action, just show.
00:44:32.080
If I wasn't Tommy Robinson, that there'd have been a payout today.
00:44:36.080
If I wasn't Tommy Robinson, I believe that judge truthfully would have said this is wrong.
00:44:43.080
No one can watch that video and not agree it's wrong.
00:44:46.080
But if she says it's wrong with me, I walk out of court and it proves police have targeted me.
00:44:54.080
It proves all the other cases and all the other things I've got coming up.
00:44:56.080
It proves all those points, and it lays the foundation for the rest of them.
00:44:59.080
So if I'm not agreeing, and to be honest, when we talk about the establishment in this country,
00:45:04.080
that lady, that judge, would have gone to the same school as the prosecutor.
00:45:11.080
And all of them come from a tough, middle-class view, where they look down their noses upon us.
00:45:18.080
And we're viewed, as you saw in the panadrama documentary.
00:45:32.080
And if you want to talk to me privately about this instead, just say so.
00:45:37.080
But there were certain things I think your team, and by that I mean your lawyer, Alison Gurdon,
00:45:44.080
like the landlady was not summoned to give testimony.
00:45:49.080
And I think you just told us that you paid your lawyer £10,000.
00:45:53.080
Now, I know from paying your legal bills in the past.
00:45:59.080
I mean, we have spent, I'm not going to say it in public, but we hired a dream.
00:46:05.080
When I started this legal case, this was two years ago.
00:46:07.080
I didn't have the public support that I've got now.
00:46:09.080
So I didn't have the support then to go sit down with the best QCs and the best legal
00:46:14.080
It just was not a possibility two years ago when this happened.
00:46:18.080
So yeah, their legal fees are £40,000 because they pulled in the top point.
00:46:23.080
Well, I want you to make me a promise that in the future, your litigation, that you're
00:46:28.080
not going to be, as they say in the UK, penny-wise and pound-foolish.
00:46:35.080
Hopefully, as I said, I've got one obstacle to get out of the way now, and this is a £38,000
00:46:42.080
I hate the fact that we've got to pay £18,000 or £38,000 or whatever it is to there.
00:46:52.080
I was sitting there thinking, I'm not going to pay it.
00:47:06.080
I would rather have paid the £38,000 to your lawyers and hired a group of ninjas.
00:47:14.080
I just, it's on my mind, and some of your viewers might be on my mind.
00:47:18.080
You know that, and we're going to give you some dough from what we're doing here.
00:47:25.080
And we're, give us, let me ask you two more questions.
00:47:28.080
Can you stay at the side of the road there for a couple more minutes?
00:47:34.080
I see from what Freddie was blogging, Freddie from Cambridgeshire Live, he said that you
00:47:41.080
stood up to make a comment afterwards, but the judge said you can't.
00:47:45.080
Can you tell us a little bit of what happened there?
00:47:49.080
Yeah, I said, I said, at the end, I just said, I'd just like to thank you, because anybody
00:47:54.080
who can watch that footage and defend those police actions, you've played your part today,
00:47:59.080
but not in getting justice, in exposing the corruption of this system to the British
00:48:06.080
And did the judge let you say that, or did she shut you down?
00:48:13.080
And can I ask what the reaction was from other people in the court?
00:48:25.080
And how about angry Adam Clemens, the rotund lawyer for the police?
00:48:31.080
And I'm saying rotund because we had a little banter back and forth.
00:48:35.080
And then when I got told I'd pay 38,000 pounds, I have to tell you, I laughed my head off,
00:48:47.080
I should note that for some bizarre reason, the court was not letting in your supporters.
00:48:52.080
There were 19 empty seats one day, 23 empty seats the other day I counted.
00:48:59.080
And the judge said, I don't want it to be over full.
00:49:04.080
Over full is if you have 50 chairs and 51 people.
00:49:08.080
Over full is not 50 chairs, but you only let in 37 people.
00:49:11.080
Do you know that from the start of this trial, they had a hired paid protection police officer?
00:49:22.080
So straight away from the start of this trial, she's been told you've got personal protection
00:49:27.080
As though somehow a court case with me is going to lead to her being violently attacked.
00:49:31.080
That's straight away putting her head from the start of this case.
00:49:37.080
I enjoyed the chance to get to meet some of them in person when I was out there.
00:49:46.080
Just like, cause everyone's watched the video is right.
00:49:49.080
It's like, in fact, when you listen to their statements, anyone who watched the video, their
00:49:50.080
statements, all three of them say, I was heavily, I was drunk, drunk and disorderly.
00:49:52.080
And I was swearing constantly at, I didn't swear once when you watch the footage.
00:50:17.080
It's just a complete, for me, it's a stitch up.
00:50:29.080
And I know you often get 10,000 before they shut you down on Facebook, which makes me really
00:50:36.080
But stay online because folks, I saw someone just say, is the money going to Tommy?
00:50:49.080
Ezra said that through the super chats that he'd hold a super chat where I could talk
00:50:54.080
to people after the case and he'd throw the money towards a piece.
00:50:58.080
But that wasn't, that wasn't us thinking there's going to be 38,000 pound piece.
00:51:06.080
So I'm just saying that because I see some people saying what's with the super chats
00:51:10.080
and Tommy and I had actually planned to do this because we didn't know what was going
00:51:17.080
Can you, can you give us another 10 minutes, Tommy?
00:51:35.080
Is, and is there a website we can tell people to visit?
00:51:41.080
See, I'll send you a link if you want to put it out.
00:51:48.080
So you're giving a free speech talk in Antwerp.
00:51:50.080
Can I ask you about your contempt of court matter?
00:51:58.080
That is that not 100%, but it is highly likely that on Monday I will find out the cases
00:52:09.080
We understand it's probably going to be at the end of April, but I don't know that.
00:52:13.080
I only found this out last night at a meeting with my legals to say that it looks like,
00:52:17.080
due to legal, whatever legal reasons, the case is not going to be heard on Friday.
00:52:21.080
In fact, I won't even have to go to court at all next Friday.
00:52:27.080
I am being prosecuted for causing anxiety to the 10 Muslim rapists, child rapists who
00:52:35.080
They, that, according to the attorney general, the government, no one can no longer say this
00:52:45.080
The attorney general has forced prosecution against me.
00:52:48.080
The trial will go to a high court judge who will then decide whether he's going to let
00:52:52.080
him try, which he will, because we know the systems like this.
00:52:55.080
So he will then try me and I will be charged with causing anxiety because apparently these
00:53:00.080
Muslim rapists should be free from fear of molestation when entering court trial.
00:53:08.080
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't scare them.
00:53:17.080
Well, and the irony is, I mean, I came to court with you, uh, two of the three days I arrived
00:53:20.080
in your vehicle with you and there was a group of mainstream media journalists there
00:53:38.080
So the idea that you would be prosecuted for contempt of court for asking someone a question
00:53:44.080
when his trial was over, by the way, but that happens to, I saw it with my own eyes happen
00:53:53.080
It's a two year prison sentence that I'm looking at.
00:53:57.080
Now, now I wouldn't say, I wouldn't always say the world's watching.
00:54:15.080
They don't care about the fact that everyone's seen the video of the police harassing my family.
00:54:25.080
Unfortunately, for that case, like when I was released from prison, I was released from prison because of the legal team that I was given with the help of the people.
00:54:35.080
And when I go back to fight this one, I will go in with a great legal defense.
00:54:46.080
Ben, you've pulled over to the side of the road, so you won't be arrested on some trumped up charge.
00:54:51.080
I mean, you wouldn't want to do a live stream while you're driving anyways.
00:54:55.080
I want to ask you one more question because, of course, our UK viewers especially will remember that you did a demo, a street demonstration a couple of months ago called Brexit Betrayal.
00:55:07.080
I'm shifting gears here, but folks, keep chipping in on the Super Chat.
00:55:11.080
As I promised Tommy when I met him in the UK this week that we were going to help him cover his legal fees and that Super Chat money, we actually get to keep 70% of that from YouTube.
00:55:27.080
Tommy, I want to shift gears away from the trial just for a minute because you led a Brexit betrayal demo with the leader of UKIP, Gerard Batten, a couple of months ago.
00:55:39.080
We got some footage of that on the screen right now.
00:55:54.080
The European Union have already said that the delay discussions could go on for four years.
00:56:01.080
The day we were supposed to leave, or we're meant to leave, of Article 50, is the 29th of this month.
00:56:10.080
Now I know I'm not in court next week on the 22nd.
00:56:12.080
I'm going to ask people to come to London on the 29th, the weekend after, the Friday after, for a mass rally against the Brexit betrayal.
00:56:20.080
And the link they're going to go to, you can see it.
00:56:26.080
I truthfully now believe we are not going to get break.
00:56:32.080
And the anger and frustration that is growing in this country.
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We live in a police state, and we do not have a democracy.
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Well, listen, Tommy, I appreciate you taking...
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Like, I just called you out of the blue there, because I was...
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And I handed the phone to Alex, and Justin hooked you up.
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We've probably raised a thousand pounds here for you.
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But keep on hitting that, guys, if you want to help.
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I'm guessing that two thirds of the viewers right now are from the UK, and the rest are split
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between Canada, the US, Australia, and there's some continental Europeans, of course.
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Do you have a message, if you had to sum things up?
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Now, when we say encouragement, the only encouragement is the fight goes on.
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Will I be deterred not to take a prison lawsuit because of this action?
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The public can see on that video how wrong this is.
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What today proves is the corruption of the system.
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Today doesn't prove the police acted within the law.
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It just proves that the whole entire system is corrupt.
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But, and if I had any words to everyone, it would be thank you, every single one of you, for your continued support throughout everything and all of it.
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And unfortunately, every time we think it's about a low down and there's going to be a bit of a chill out period, there's not.
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I'm going to say goodbye to you now, but everybody else stay on because we're going to talk.
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We're going to keep going for another six minutes and just wrap things up.
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Tommy, stay safe, mate, and we'll talk to you more.
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He pulled over to the side of the road and he corrected me.
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And for my Canadian friends and Australia, our currencies are the same.
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That's $67,000 on top of Tommy's own legal fees.
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Am I too forgiving of Tommy's boisterous interaction with the police?
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See, I come from a place where everyone is very respectful of the police
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They would never, I just can't even imagine growing up in Calgary,
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if I was a kid and my dad would have taken the family out to a restaurant,
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Dr. Levant, you and your family get out of the restaurant right now.
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And I have no idea what my father would have done back then.
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I don't know what I would do right now other than say,
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I would be pretty irate if I was with my family, not drunk, not doing anything wrong.
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If the landlady came over and said, leave him alone, I would be irate too.
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And if they then followed me down the street with a video camera on my kids
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and my kids started to cry and it was just, yeah, I'd be pretty irate too.
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But the craziest part is the law that allows this.
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And the fact that every journalist there is just fine with all this.
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And they're good little licensed poodles and they want to show you just how licensed they are.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
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to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.