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On Friday, Rebel News reporter David Menzies was arrested while trying to interview attendees of a pro-Hamas rally in Toronto, Ontario.
According to Rebel News, the arrest comes just days after the announcement of David's lawsuit against the RCMP “for a pattern of intimidation and exclusion following a shocking display of police brutality against David.”
Rebel News reports:
What happened was a blatant disregard for civil liberties.
But David was completely following the law. Upon request he produced his identification. We have it all on camera.
Yet he was summarily arrested and confined for exercising his right to document a public demonstration.
This is an outrageous violation of the freedom of the press and independent journalism where no crime was committed and yet another example of the two-tier policing that occurs every weekend.
BREAKING: Toronto police have just arrested David Menzies (@TheMenzoid) for reporting on the Hamas hate rally!
When he tried to interview a Hamas protester, police caught him.
Watch this madness – and help us fight back. https://t.co/HusmT5E0sC pic.twitter.com/Erh45zZC7K
– Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) 16 March 2024
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In January, The Gateway Pundit reported that Menzies had not too long ago been arrested after a shootout with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) throughout an try and interrogate Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Video footage from the scene exhibits a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer intentionally restraining Menzies as he tried to ask questions of Minister Freeland.
I used to be in jail at midnight ready for the discharge of our reporter David Menzies. @TorontoPolice Two prison expenses have been filed towards him.
We are going to struggle them and win.
After which we are going to sue the police and win.
Please assist me https://t.co/BHTruvhJfV.pic.twitter.com/JyVeEE3EZz
– Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) 16 March 2024
Watching David Menzies get arrested in Toronto for doing his work as a journalist jogged my memory of my father's ordeal underneath communist rule within the former Yugoslavia, the place his rights to talk out have been crushed. We must be alert towards any sort of…
– Susan Katana Cork (@susancork) 16 March 2024