{"id":3732,"date":"2020-02-08T00:45:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T05:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2020-02-08T00:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T05:45:44","slug":"cafe-supports-patrica-zammit-demands-dropping-of-all-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"CAFE Supports Patrica Zammit &#038; Demands Dropping of All Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"809\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zammit-protest-2-1024x809.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3733\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zammit-protest-2-1024x809.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zammit-protest-2-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zammit-protest-2-768x607.jpg 768w, http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zammit-protest-2-380x300.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAMMIT-PROTEST.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3734\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAMMIT-PROTEST.jpg 360w, http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZAMMIT-PROTEST-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ST. CATHARINES. February 3, 2020.The Canadian Association for Free Expression held  a protest outside the Robert S.K. Welch Courthouse, (59 Church St.)\u00a0 here this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This was the first appearance in Court for Patricia Zammit, a Hamilton woman who got into a dispute over a parking space in a crowded Boxing Day Mall with a Chinese woman. She made some remarks critical of immigrants and used some salty language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;If it had been two White men giving each other the finger and swearing, this incident would never have escalated to police charges,&#8221; says Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;The prosecution of Ms Zammit is clearly political. She is being prosecuted because her remarks criticized an immigrant in a Boxing Day dispute over a parking space. The Canadian Association for Free Expression demands that all charges arising against Ms Zammit from the parking lot incident be dropped immediately.This is unfolding as a major free speech case,&#8221; Fromm says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         The case was remanded to March 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CATHARINES. February 3, 2020.The Canadian Association for Free Expression held a protest outside the Robert S.K. Welch Courthouse, (59 Church St.)\u00a0 here this morning. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This was the first appearance in Court for Patricia Zammit, a Hamilton woman who got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}