{"id":4437,"date":"2020-09-07T08:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2020-09-07T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:55:45","slug":"police-state-canadian-journalist-arrested-on-the-street-for-breaking-story-on-crooked-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"POLICE STATE: Canadian journalist arrested on the street for breaking story on crooked mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/\">\n            \n          <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">                        POLICE STATE: Canadian journalist arrested on the street for breaking story on crooked mayor   https:\/\/youtu.be\/-seF45od5C0                   <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\n        By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/journalist_david_menzies\">David Menzies<\/a>\n      <\/li><li>|<\/li><li>September 06, 2020<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was arrested on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five police cars plus three private security vehicles were sent to apprehend me. It was a massive, coordinated police raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only two days earlier, there had been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/three-people-injured-in-daylight-shooting-at-brampton-cemetery-1.5086590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terrible gangland shooting<\/a> in the same city of Brampton, Ontario \u2014 in broad daylight. Seven shooters were still at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But police felt that I was a bigger threat, and they sent a huge squad to take me down.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had I shot anyone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was I a drug dealer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No. I had done something much worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had done journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They literally arrested me and stuffed me in the back of a car. Take a look. Watch the whole thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/brampton_ontario_mayor_patrick_brown_caught_breaking_pandemic_rules_closed_hockey_arena\">caught the local mayor<\/a>, a disgraced politician named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.SneakyPatrick.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patrick Brown<\/a>,\n sneaking into a hockey arena that he had closed to the public. He had \nslipped in for a private game with his buddies, while telling Brampton \nkids they were banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IngrahamAngle\/status\/1292236311320047618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">international embarrassment<\/a> for Brown. Sneaking into a hockey rink he had closed to everyone else. Lying about it. But he\u2019s still doing it. Because he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bramptonguardian.com\/news-story\/10134436-patrick-brown-responds-to-rebel-news-video-alleging-he-broke-brampton-s-covid-19-bylaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thinks<\/a> he&#8217;s untouchable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And ever since, I\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/brampton_bans_journalism_again_who_called_the_police\">harassed by local police<\/a>,\n who have literally told me my journalism is now illegal \u2014 and says our \nentire media is banned from Brampton property for a year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>That\u2019s wrong. That&#8217;s unconstitutional. And that\u2019s the problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just Patrick Brown breaking his own rules. It\u2019s now \nthe Peel Regional Police who are acting as Brown\u2019s personal enforcers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What an outrage. And complete silence from left-wing civil \nliberties groups, opposition politicians and \u2014 worst of all \u2014 the entire\n Media Party. Not a peep from the CBC, the Toronto Star, the Globe and \nMail and certainly not the Canadian Association of Journalists. Only my \nfriend Joe Warmington of the <em>Toronto Sun<\/em> mentioned my arrest, and Marc Patrone of a radio station in Mississauga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Everyone else thinks this is just fine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s not. Imagine: a politician ordering his personal \nenemies list banned from public property. I\u2019m not even his enemy \u2014 I\u2019m \njust a reporter who happened to catch him breaking his own pandemic \nrules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Canada, we believe in the rule of law, not the rule of man\n \u2014 especially corrupt, small-town mayors like Brown. He may treat the \ncity as his private fiefdom, but the Charter of Rights says differently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, the police had nothing to charge me with. I was \nliterally standing by myself, on a public sidewalk, not even talking to \nanyone. It must have been embarrassing to try to come up with a criminal\n charge for that. The best they could come up with was a $65 ticket for \nnot leaving the property when asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ticket. Like a parking ticket. But for all that, they sent \nfive police cars, three security cars, and arrested me and jammed me in \nthe back of a car like a gangland murderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Ezra says, we\u2019ll spend $65,000 if we have to, appealing this\n ticket all the way to the Supreme Court \u2014 and making every one of those\n police officers testify why I was treated like a greater menace than a \ngangland shootout that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLICE STATE: Canadian journalist arrested on the street for breaking story on crooked mayor https:\/\/youtu.be\/-seF45od5C0 By David Menzies | September 06, 2020 I was arrested on Wednesday. Five police cars plus three private security vehicles were sent to apprehend me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4437\">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":[1991,901,2398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}