{"id":4413,"date":"2020-09-03T06:34:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2020-09-03T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:35:09","slug":"rebel-media-reporter-arrested-by-political-police-for-reporting-on-public-property-about-mayor-browns-covid-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4413","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Media Reporter Arrested by Political Police for Reporting on Public Property About Mayor Brown’s COVID Antics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rebel Media Reporter Arrested by Political Police for Reporting on Public Property About Mayor Brown’s COVID Antics
Moments ago David Menzies was arrested in Brampton, Ontario.<\/strong> We need your help immediately to get him out of jail.<\/strong>

We\u2019ve got a lawyer on the case right now. We don\u2019t know yet if David will have to post bail and if so, how much it will be. We don\u2019t yet know when his first appearance in court will be. But we need your help. If you can please click here<\/strong><\/a> or go to\u00a0www.SaveDavidMenzies.com<\/strong><\/a>.

David wasn\u2019t doing anything wrong.<\/strong> He was doing his job \u2014 in this case, working on a news report about Patrick Brown.<\/strong> (You\u2019ll remember Brown \u2014 he\u2019s the Ontario mayor who shut down public hockey arenas for kids, but was secretly playing private hockey games in one of those same arenas with his buddies. And David caught him red-handed.)

David and I went back to same the arena today, doing a follow-up story. We were on a sidewalk on public property, doing accountability journalism in the public interest. But then police pulled up and ordered them to stop, and to leave.<\/strong> Except that\u2019s not how a democracy works \u2014 peaceful journalists doing journalism on public property can\u2019t just be shooed away by politicized cops running an errand for an angry mayor.

We don\u2019t live in China<\/em>. I’m a former lawyer so, I know our rights; but we brought along another top lawyer, Guidy Mamann, to help make the case. We know the law for public places. It\u2019s not the same as for private property \u2014 police can only kick people out of public property under limited circumstances, such as for breaking noise bylaws. Obviously none of that applied.
David was literally put in a police car and taken away!<\/strong> Our lawyer Guidy is on the way to the court house right now to make bail for David \u2014 hopefully, we\u2019ll get him out of jail right away. But at this point it\u2019s not certain \u2014 he might be kept in jail overnight.<\/strong>

We intend to fight this like hell.<\/strong><\/a>

And to investigate the role of Patrick Brown, the mayor, as to why a whole squad of police cars were dispatched to arrest a peaceful journalist. That doesn\u2019t sound like a police decision. That sounds like a political decision. I\u2019m furious right now, but I know we\u2019ll win, and justice will prevail.<\/strong> We\u2019ve got a team on lawyers working on this full tilt. If Patrick Brown thinks that arresting David will stop us from investigating his misconduct, well, they simply don\u2019t know David as well as I do. Please help us get David free \u2014 click here<\/strong><\/a> or go to\u00a0www.SaveMenzies.com<\/a><\/strong>. Thanks. Yours truly, Ezra Levant<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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