Western Standard - March 22, 2022


EXCLUSIVE WATCH： Freedom protester violently arrested at weekend rally speaks out


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Devlin Gannon was a participant at the Freedom Rally in Central Memorial Park on Saturday and was one of the people that was taken down by police and eventually brought in and arrested. Devlin is joining us today to explain what happened from his perspective and to fill us in on the charges that he is facing and why he believes that these charges have been laid in error.

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00:00:00.000 Good evening, I'm Melanie Risden with the Western Standard and joining me this evening for an
00:00:06.960 exclusive interview is Devlin Gannon. Devlin was a participant at the Freedom Rally in Central
00:00:15.040 Memorial Park on Saturday and Devlin is one of the people that were that was taken down by police and
00:00:22.800 eventually brought in and arrested. And so Devlin's joining us today to explain what happened
00:00:31.680 from his perspective to fill us in on the charges that he's facing and why he believes that these
00:00:39.780 charges have been laid in error. So Devlin, thanks for joining us. Thanks for talking with us and
00:00:48.420 sharing your perspective today. So Devlin, how long have you been attending these rallies?
00:00:54.480 Well, first off, I'm glad to be here. Thanks for having me. And I've been coming to the rallies
00:00:59.420 every Saturday since May of 2021. Haven't missed one since then, rain or shine, minus 30 or plus
00:01:07.560 30. We've been there. And from the get go, I've kind of been there with the goal of just documenting
00:01:15.560 it and recording anything I can, getting the numbers of people and showing how it's grown
00:01:21.820 quite a bit over the last year. I know I haven't been there from the beginning because it had been
00:01:26.860 going on before I started attending. But yeah, I've been going for almost a year now. So it's
00:01:33.480 been a lot of fun. And that's definitely to put it lightly. So you're going to record the things
00:01:40.020 that are happening there. What does it mean to you? What are these rallies about for you?
00:01:44.180 Well, I mean, to be blunt, freedom, honestly, we've seen a lot of degradation of our freedoms over the last three years now.
00:01:56.220 And it's gone on longer than three years, longer than the COVID-19 narrative.
00:02:02.820 But yeah, for the last three years, it was really in the spotlight, seeing freedoms taken away all the time.
00:02:08.880 And that's what these rallies really stand for, is protecting our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and ensuring that our politicians and our political leaders, whether elected or career politicians, are going to respect the Charter and stop taking away the rights of Canadians, pretty much.
00:02:27.760 So when you go to the rallies, you have been sort of recording, documenting, covering, sort of covering them.
00:02:35.380 And so what do you do with that? What do you do with your coverage?
00:02:38.880 Well, off the bat, it just started as like a YouTube thing.
00:02:42.700 Just record with my GoPro.
00:02:44.380 I'd like to get front to back footage of each march.
00:02:48.700 I'd stand at the very, very front line and then be in one spot as the crowd came against me just to show the numbers and how long it would take to get from the front to the back.
00:02:58.280 And over the span of months, it was really a good timeline to see how the rally grew, because the videos went from being six minutes in length to 15 minutes in length, just to get from the front to the back. And I would put it on YouTube. YouTube started banning videos, just speeches from the rallies for medical misinformation. So they wouldn't let me upload videos for a week, and then I could go on again, and I'd have to try and self-censor around their stuff to keep it on there.
00:03:25.220 so i started my own website uh awakeningthepeople.net and that's mainly where i put everything
00:03:32.180 now um i do use rumble and youtube for certain things just to try and reach a broader demographic
00:03:37.940 of people who don't go to alternative sources um but trying to censor around their um rules
00:03:45.940 and constantly changing guidelines to keep content on there is definitely annoying so i do have my
00:03:52.260 own website that's where i put everything and uh the footage of recording people and just getting
00:03:58.020 the numbers evolved eventually into interviewing people there publicly getting every demographic
00:04:04.820 of person there every profession every age and just getting their opinion why they're there and
00:04:11.460 mainly asking them what would they tell somebody who has never came to a rally and what we're about
00:04:17.780 And that was almost every question that I would ask people would be simply that and trying to tell people to come and make their own opinion about what we're doing.
00:04:26.820 So you've been to dozens. Have you seen any aggressive behavior? Have you seen any violence, anything like that in the past for the rallies?
00:04:37.580 No, no, definitely not. It's been like you can you can see through tons of footage. There's families, there's dogs, there's elderly, there's young people. There's no room for violence with that kind of crowd. And everybody's there peacefully. We love anybody who stands on the side and doesn't want to come in and wants to watch what's happening where we come and join us. We want to tell them about what's happening. We want to inform them.
00:05:06.320 There's never any hate. There's no violence. The only violence and hate I've seen has been very recently. And that's not from our group. It's coming from within the Calgary Police Service and other agitating groups that have been organized through different avenues in this city to stand against the rally now that's gone on for over two years. And without a doubt, any violence has come from outside sources from the rally. That's for sure.
00:05:35.540 Okay. So on Saturday, I was there. We were covering it. We were streaming live for the
00:05:42.340 Western Standard. We were watching what was sort of unfolding in Central Memorial Park.
00:05:47.400 Originally, the group had started at Central Memorial Park, marched to City Hall, spent about
00:05:55.820 an hour there, and then marched back to Central Memorial. When the group came back to Central
00:06:01.060 memorial there was a contingent of either uh residents community members or anti-protesters
00:06:07.780 that that met with a group and you know tensions were rising and and understandably police were
00:06:14.100 uh initially creating sort of a barrier between what would have been considered the freedom
00:06:20.500 marchers and the and the um community residents that were protesting the marches yes so then you
00:06:27.140 know like uh tensions got high and police uh started to sort of move people out of the park
00:06:32.980 this is when uh things started to escalate uh specifically for you as well do you wanna do
00:06:38.900 you wanna tell us a little bit what happened before yeah yeah before the uh the altercation
00:06:44.980 that you had with police and then we do have a video that we'll share so what what happened
00:06:48.900 leading up to that well the day i mean the summer i started off like a typical rally everyone
00:06:55.140 gathered in central memorial park due to the injunction that the city had just put forward
00:07:00.260 on the 18th of march the friday right before this rally occurred there was no amplification devices
00:07:06.660 allowed so the speaker system that would usually be set up was absent lots of people were gathering
00:07:13.220 came to the rally start time and some of the organizers got on stage and announced to them
00:07:19.620 we're not allowed to have amplification devices here we can't do our normal rally and speeches
00:07:24.340 because obviously lots of thousands of people are not going to hear an unamplified voice and so
00:07:30.100 they announced that due to the injunction taking place in any city park the rally of the day was
00:07:39.380 going to actually take place at city hall because that's not classified as parks so they had set up
00:07:44.980 all their amplification devices and as you said that's where the rally led to and as you say march
00:07:50.820 They did march there, but I would like to say much differently than we've seen over the last two years.
00:07:56.100 We've had police escorts, a very planned out route march, and they would shut down the roads.
00:08:03.140 They'd lead the march.
00:08:04.080 They'd make sure it was safe.
00:08:05.560 And this time around, the march was led by us and was perfectly legally, lawfully walking citizens on the sidewalk.
00:08:14.420 And it was a great sight to see.
00:08:16.460 We all made it to City Hall legally.
00:08:18.300 No danger, no issues with traffic.
00:08:20.820 and we abided by the laws following the traffic lights and cross signals so once we left city hall
00:08:27.460 the same deal everybody walked back to central memorial following traffic laws not
00:08:32.180 marching in the road and mainly because that's where everyone was parked around
00:08:36.420 most people are parked within a couple blocks of that park so everybody congregated back there by
00:08:42.020 the time we arrived back at central memorial as you said there were a group of counter protesters
00:08:46.980 that had arrived in the park and uh i'd like to just say as a note on that that their whole um
00:08:53.620 issue with us in the past has been our marching on to 17th avenue and through the beltline area
00:08:59.460 and uh on this day that didn't occur in any way at all we had actually intentionally changed the
00:09:05.700 plans to adhere to their wants and not disturb their community as they had been saying we were
00:09:13.220 doing so i am not too sure why they were there to counter protest something that we didn't do
00:09:19.340 on the day but uh anyway how the police did separate the group um and that was essentially
00:09:27.240 it there was about five to ten of them they separated the counter protesters but then they
00:09:32.540 proceeded to continue to move every freedom rally organizer or every freedom protester
00:09:40.980 out of the park no matter what even though um our chief of police had specifically said that
00:09:47.380 central memorial park was the park in which the protest was allowed to take place in and that's
00:09:52.180 where we could be and uh the police just still attempted to move everybody out of there no matter
00:09:58.120 what no matter who you were no matter anything there's a gentleman who was arrested for sitting
00:10:03.180 on the bench in the park and not wanting to get up when they told him to leave so um yeah i'm just
00:10:08.680 not too sure why they enforced something that the police chief specifically had said was allowed to
00:10:15.440 happen. And from there on, people were being pushed and shoved. Every demographic of person
00:10:21.600 was probably pushed or shoved by a police officer that day. And it just escalated from there on out.
00:10:27.820 They made a couple of different several arrests that day, among them myself. And as you said,
00:10:35.440 we have a video that shows many different angles and points of view of what occurred from start to
00:10:42.320 finish and essentially showing my point of view and very much so butting heads with the official
00:10:50.440 statements from the police that have come forward through the courts and yeah it's I'm just happy to
00:10:56.720 say that a lot of people were willing to stand and record and show what occurred because they did
00:11:01.940 everything they could to get everybody away from the events taking place when the arrest occurred
00:11:07.380 so that nobody could get angles or anything. And, uh, I mean, it's kind of impossible to hide that
00:11:12.720 they can't, it's in an open park, but they did push the line of people way, way, way back away
00:11:18.360 from where the arrest was taking place. And, uh, yeah, I mean, the video will speak for itself
00:11:23.240 pretty much. Right. So we do have the video, uh, and, uh, we have it from a number of different
00:11:29.020 sources that have been sort of cut together uh to show the perspective and i think what we're
00:11:33.440 going to do is we're going to roll through it and we're going to try and uh sort of talk through
00:11:37.720 different things that are happening so we'll get started uh devlin i think you're um you
00:11:44.920 it starts by showing you speaking with some officers here yes
00:11:48.840 I was asking him specifically why they were moving this out of the park and yeah you can
00:12:11.320 see the officer just won't even let me speak with him and he is in charge there he is higher
00:12:16.360 up compared to the officers pushing back i was just trying to inquire really why they were moving
00:12:22.680 us out of the park give him his stuff back what the is wrong with you yeah we will we will mention
00:12:29.880 there is um there is some uh swears and some language alerts as well as possibly some what
00:12:38.920 yeah they had uh stripped my shirt off me grabbing my collar and stuff i'm asking what i did why
00:12:45.160 they're trying to arrest me and uh here you see that police officer who falls this is them saying
00:12:50.920 that i assaulted a police officer and uh quote unquote aggressively pushed him to the ground
00:12:57.640 so you can see as the footage slows down i'm i'm being restrained and uh right it's it's not me who
00:13:03.880 even actually interacts with this officer it's someone else in the group who steps between me
00:13:10.200 and the officer and he ends up falling backwards but uh it really doesn't have anything to do with
00:13:16.240 me right so with this police are charging you with assault assaulting that particular officer
00:13:23.280 when you were restrained and some it it clearly shows that he's he's tripped by another person
00:13:30.340 yeah someone else entirely i'm not too sure who it is at all but it really shows clearly that i'm
00:13:36.560 being pulled away by two other officers it circles in red he he sticks this other individual sticks
00:13:41.880 his foot out and kind of trips the officer who falls backwards and uh right as the charge was
00:13:47.400 read to me it was it says that i aggressively pushed him then he fell to the ground so i can
00:13:53.660 see you in in that it looks like you are pulling away can you talk about that i mean because that
00:14:00.320 you know they they would argue that you're resisting arrest yeah i could understand that
00:14:04.800 And I mean, if they were going to argue that, I would assume I would have had a resisting arrest charge laid against me during all this.
00:14:12.980 But to speak to what you see, it's kind of, I'm being pulled by multiple officers in different directions.
00:14:20.000 One has my left arm pulling me.
00:14:21.560 One has my right arm pulling me.
00:14:23.080 Let's mention here, too, I see this officer here with the cowboy hat on.
00:14:27.940 It looks like the same officer that ended up being tripped comes in.
00:14:32.240 And what's happening here, it looks like he's punching me.
00:14:33.860 Yeah, the footage shows quite clearly winds up a big old haymaker while there's already multiple officers pinning me down and punches me in the back for no apparent reason.
00:14:44.860 I'm pretty sure that's not protocol for an arrest.
00:14:47.860 Right. So while you're on the ground here, Dublin, are you resisting? What's happening?
00:14:52.940 No, there is. I mean, we will.
00:14:55.140 My lawyer is going to attempt to get freedom of information after the body cam footage of the police officers in order to show what's happening up close here.
00:15:04.680 Because I am telling them I don't want or I'm not resisting and my arms are out.
00:15:10.660 I'm not resisting.
00:15:11.680 I'm saying that I'm not resisting.
00:15:14.320 And there's one officer pulling my arm upwards.
00:15:17.080 The other officer pulls it down and another one's trying to get it behind my back.
00:15:21.060 And so any resistance that any of these officers are feeling is the other officer pulling me in another direction.
00:15:28.160 I'm essentially a rag doll that is limp trying to let them do whatever they want while they stop resisting.
00:15:35.800 And so you do say, I'm not resisting.
00:15:39.560 And then I get tased.
00:15:41.640 So you did get tased, hey?
00:15:43.100 So at what point, where were you?
00:15:46.380 What position were you in when that transpired?
00:15:49.140 What was happening?
00:15:49.680 i mean it's hard to say specifically my position because i was a pretzel at that point with these
00:15:55.680 officers manipulating me but um i'm saying i'm not resisting and i can hear them saying use the taser
00:16:02.000 and i'm saying i'm not resisting and then there's about four or five more of them pinning me in
00:16:07.440 different areas with knees and that's just when i feel a tase in my back i'm already flat on the
00:16:13.120 ground face in the dirt choke hold and everything and a taser hits me at that point so really
00:16:19.520 really don't understand what the excessive force was necessary for and i wasn't resisting right and
00:16:25.360 so you would you would easily describe it as excessive force oh definitely it was beyond
00:16:31.840 excessive i mean there was no need for it i simply if they would have told me what they were going to
00:16:36.960 charge me for when i was asking them what did i do what did i do why do you like why are you wanting
00:16:41.200 to arrest me i would have stuck my arms out and given them handcuffs if they were going to press
00:16:46.080 charges on something but again they they're not telling me anything they're grabbing me without
00:16:50.980 saying anything i'm simply trying to speak to their higher up officer who is actually talking
00:16:56.260 back to me so we're having a conversation and yeah they just really escalated it to a very
00:17:03.300 extent so in in all of this and to you know not not necessarily to devil's advocate but when you
00:17:11.420 when you became aware that the police their goal was to just get everyone out of the park right
00:17:16.620 what were your thoughts why did you stay well to be honest um i wanted to know why they were
00:17:24.060 going to go against specifically what the chief of police had said he specifically said central
00:17:30.300 memorial park was the area in which a protest and our group was allowed to gather uh we didn't have
00:17:36.180 any amplified noise devices there was nothing of the sort that fell into the terms of breaking
00:17:41.380 the injunction and i that's what i was speaking to the higher-up officer about is why are we
00:17:47.040 being pushed out of here we're allowed to be in this park and that was essentially it i'm just
00:17:51.800 trying to inquire why they're doing this and i mean that was the extent of why i would even stay
00:17:59.220 because genuine curiosity okay so uh what charges did they say you are facing is it just the one or
00:18:07.220 what no so there's the assault of the police officer which as the footage shows um will be
00:18:13.220 very easy to fight in court um but the other one is the obstruction of the injunction and that's
00:18:20.420 the charge in which many people got arrested that day for the obstruction of the injunction
00:18:26.660 which just goes along the lines of what I'm saying, where the chief of police had said that's the park we're allowed to be in.
00:18:33.820 And this injunction also had stipulations around amplified noise devices and blocking roadways and making any businesses inaccessible via a massive group of people blocking the area.
00:18:46.880 And that wasn't occurring at all.
00:18:48.860 We were in a park and we were making it definitely usable to any other patron who wanted to ever come into the park.
00:18:56.660 And those are all things within the injunction that we were abiding by.
00:19:01.280 And the cherry on top is just that the chief of police specifically said that is the park we are supposed to be in.
00:19:07.960 So nobody specified what it was that you breached of the injunction.
00:19:14.620 No, it's obstruction to the injunction.
00:19:16.980 And you had mentioned that they have given you a number of conditions for your bail.
00:19:23.020 Yeah.
00:19:23.860 What are you facing with those conditions?
00:19:25.900 um it's it wasn't a monetary condition at all it was i didn't have to pay anything it's
00:19:32.620 conditions of i am not allowed to protest that's it blanket i'm not allowed to protest
00:19:39.420 um which is a charter protected right uh the second condition is there's a um a mapped out
00:19:47.180 section of the downtown belt line area in which i am never allowed at any time ever to enter
00:19:53.660 at all times. So that's one of the other stipulations or conditions. And then among
00:20:00.120 them as well is I'm not allowed to carry weapons, which shocker, I don't own any.
00:20:06.220 Anyways, and then the fourth of which is verified address that I need to constantly give them no
00:20:13.500 matter what if I move or anything like that. Okay. And were you given any kind of appearance
00:20:19.660 dates or anything as of yet? Yeah. April 11th is the court date set and that will be when
00:20:26.640 essentially I go in to plead not guilty because that hasn't occurred yet. It was just a bail
00:20:31.620 sentencing. But yeah, April 11th will be the court date in which I will be pleading not guilty
00:20:36.700 and we'll be going forward with the case to defend these charges. And then I also do plan
00:20:44.260 to open up a suit against the Calgary Police Service as well.
00:20:48.780 Okay. And you had mentioned that you have already talked with a couple of lawyers.
00:20:56.560 One of them sounds like a lawyer that you had mentioned typically deals with sort of police brutality
00:21:04.460 or situations where police have acted unlawfully.
00:21:09.220 Corruption and any sorts, yeah.
00:21:10.940 Okay. And so, do you want to tell me a little bit about your lawyers or your legal help there?
00:21:19.860 Definitely. So, I reached out to him. He does have a background of taking on cases with police brutality, police corruption.
00:21:28.980 Tom Engle is his name. He practices out of Edmonton.
00:21:32.500 And so his track record is very admirable and it is always targeted.
00:21:39.500 Well, not always, but many targeted cases towards corrupt police or brutality cases.
00:21:45.360 And he was very eager to take the case.
00:21:48.520 Monday morning today, when his office opened, within 20 minutes, I had received an email from him to take the case.
00:21:55.540 And he's definitely eager to get started.
00:21:57.580 Okay. What do you want to say to people who would perhaps label you or look at you? I mean,
00:22:05.480 because it's all over the news, right? That there was somebody that was charged with assaulting a
00:22:10.620 police officer at the rally. What do you want to say? What do you want to say to people who maybe
00:22:15.080 don't understand how it all played out or what the situation or circumstances were?
00:22:19.820 Well, what I would say, in all honesty, at this point is there's a very big aspect of this is optics.
00:22:30.000 There was an intent to stop these freedom rallies going back previous from this injunction, previous from this rally.
00:22:38.700 There was a sentiment from our city council, from our mayor and from our chief of police that these freedom rallies and protests needed to stop.
00:22:46.620 And it became very clear when the police started allowing agitators to disrupt the protests and essentially facilitating them in every way by allowing them to blockade the road that we had been marching on as a route for more than two years.
00:23:06.000 And there's many other examples.
00:23:08.120 Don't get me wrong.
00:23:08.780 They did do their job in certain ways to move these agitators after an hour or more of allowing tensions to bubble.
00:23:18.480 But long story short, the optics are they want this to end.
00:23:22.960 And they are very much so trying to make it look like there are agitators within the freedom community that need to be stopped.
00:23:31.440 and that are going to paint the freedom community and freedom protests in a negative light when that's not the truth.
00:23:40.820 And videos like the video I have now showing that they were very aggressive and definitely used excessive force
00:23:48.960 and really were going against the words of their police chief, it's all about formulating your own opinion.
00:23:57.900 And if you're going to read and watch publications that aren't going to give you the full picture, you can't expect to have an accurate opinion of events if you yourself weren't there and you're not going to do the due diligence of looking to alternative sources that are going to allow you to see every angle and every point of view of what's happening.
00:24:21.260 Right. And I think that that comes also from what you do and what many people are doing right now.
00:24:28.760 They're coming out and they're filming and, you know, making sure that they're they're documenting the things that happen, which I think, again, is is very helpful in in accountability.
00:24:38.920 The other thing I would mention is on Saturday, we had an opportunity to try to speak with some of the community residents who have found that the rallies have been disruptive through the Beltline.
00:24:54.320 Clearly, for real residents who are struggling with this, something different needs to happen for them, and their rights need to be heard too.
00:25:05.080 What are your thoughts on an alternate or another way of doing this that doesn't have to sort of, you know, interrupt and affect the Beltline residents on a regular basis?
00:25:17.760 What are your thoughts on that?
00:25:18.820 Yeah, I totally understand their sentiment.
00:25:21.600 I mean, I wouldn't want to be woken up if I was sleeping in on a Saturday after a Friday night to a bunch of chanting and honking and stuff.
00:25:31.040 And I understand where they're coming from. And I can say to the calls and cries of these residents over the last month for us to not be on 17th Avenue, not be shutting down the Beltline area for our march, we've decided to not do that.
00:25:52.740 When I say we, it's not me. It's not a specific person. This protest is a group of thousands of people. It's not organized by one individual or any individuals. They don't have control.
00:26:06.840 So the sentiment now has become, you know what, we will go somewhere else then.
00:26:12.200 And the city and the councillors and our chief of police have done their best to very much so paint our protests in their own light.
00:26:23.820 And I think it couldn't be more suiting that we ended up at City Hall.
00:26:28.640 And that's where the rallies are going to be hosted going forward.
00:26:32.380 and it does work around the injunction of not being allowed in a park in our city because
00:26:36.720 City Hall and Olympic Plaza both are not a park. So now having watched the the footage that we did
00:26:44.600 and and seeing some of the you know it was it was quite a brutal takedown by police and and hearing
00:26:52.600 you say that you are going to entertain looking at bringing charges against the Calgary police. Yes
00:26:58.000 uh, were you injured? Did, did you get hurt? What happened? Um, because some of that looked
00:27:03.200 really, uh, violent. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not going to show now obviously, but my body's
00:27:08.700 bruised and scraped and cut and, uh, definitely battered up. Um, I was tased. So I've got the
00:27:16.880 injection marks from the tase and, uh, whatever muscles issues I'm having, lots of tightness and
00:27:23.040 stuff, obviously, in the lower back from being electrified. But on top of that, I have previous
00:27:29.180 health concerns that like I have spinal damage in my neck. And that's going back to when I was
00:27:36.140 a teenager from a football injury. And it's something I've dealt with for years now. And
00:27:41.380 this has definitely exacerbated that it hasn't been very long yet. And the only night I've slept
00:27:49.100 because I could not sleep in the holding facility.
00:27:51.780 The only night I've slept last night was definitely a sign waking up this morning
00:27:58.180 of how it's going to go over the next couple of days.
00:28:01.120 Like I said, I've been dealing with these neck issues for years now
00:28:04.480 and go through flares of issues if I cause any kind of pain.
00:28:10.140 And I can tell now this is going to be a problem.
00:28:14.040 I have scheduled doctor's appointments,
00:28:16.200 and I'm going to be seeing the specialists I've already seen
00:28:19.080 to have an updated medical profile for any kind of changes
00:28:23.500 that may have been brought about from this altercation.
00:28:27.140 Well, Devlin, I just want to say thank you
00:28:29.240 for sharing your perspective on this and your side
00:28:32.860 and explaining what happened.
00:28:35.660 Again, I think there's the perception that perhaps you were resisting
00:28:41.580 or you were being aggressive yourself.
00:28:44.140 and this is why this would have unfolded for you.
00:28:50.440 So I think it's really good that we have video,
00:28:54.740 we have people recording these things,
00:28:56.400 we can see all the signs and perspectives
00:28:58.820 and hopefully the video, the coverage of the police officer
00:29:03.240 being tripped by somebody
00:29:05.020 and the fact that you are actually fully restrained
00:29:07.880 and would have been unable to push him,
00:29:10.160 Hopefully, that will help with the charge of assaulting a police officer.
00:29:14.560 And you know what?
00:29:16.040 We're going to just stay in touch.
00:29:17.620 April 11th, I understand, is when you're going to be having your hearing.
00:29:22.000 So we will follow up and see how that goes for you.
00:29:24.940 Well, thank you.
00:29:25.580 I really appreciate the chance to paint my side of the story because, as we know, the media likes to use black and white and paint a small picture where the world is full of color and is a much larger picture than they tend to paint.
00:29:39.540 And so I'm glad to be here to fill out the colors I can so that people can know what's really going on in the city.
00:29:46.060 Yeah, I think it's an important thing, too.
00:29:48.980 That's Devlin Gannon.
00:29:50.360 He was at the Freedom Rally on Saturday and is facing charges of assault of a police officer.
00:29:56.300 As you've seen through the video that we've played, there is definitely some questions around all of the things that occurred.
00:30:06.500 But we want to thank you as well for joining us tonight.
00:30:08.900 and have a great evening.