RCMP officer under review after arresting Rebel News commentator David Menzies for 'assault'

[CdnFox]

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/rebel-news-david-menzies-rcmp-arrest

David Menzies was grabbed by an RCMP officer and told he was under arrest — with video of the incident sparking outrage before he was released without charge

A member of the RCMP security detail who grabbed and arrested a Rebel News commentator while questioning Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland Monday is under review by the federal force after video of the incident sparked outrage for a seemingly dubious arrest.

David Menzies was grabbed and pushed by an RCMP officer and told he was under arrest for assault as he was asking the minister questions about the government’s terrorism response, outside of a vigil in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto, to mark four years since Iran’s military shot down Flight PS752, killing 176 people, many of them Canadian.

“The arrest of the Rebel News reporter was made by the Prime Minister’s RCMP security detail. York Regional Police officers assisted as the interaction took place in our region,” said Constable Lisa Moskaluk, a media relations officer with York police.

No credible security threat existed

“It was determined that no credible security threat existed and the subject was released unconditionally shortly thereafter.”

Menzies’ release without charge hasn’t muted expressions of outrage over the incident, recorded by a Rebel News videographer in a video which shows a man in a suit, tie and dark coat seeming to create a collision with Menzies that facilitated the arrest.

[CdnFox]

This is horrific. 

Whether you like rebel news or not they ARE an accredited news source and the courts have determined that the last time the PM'S office tried to exclude them from media events.

Now - a cop has a collegue bump into a reporter who's in the middle of asking difficult questions for the media and then arrests the guy.  And this is the PM's security people, not just some cops.

We are literally at the point where gov't security forces are arresting reporters who ask questions they don't like.  That' is actually happening.

What the ACTUAL hell?

 

[CdnFox]

 Handcuffs for journalists, double-doubles for jihadists

David Menzies arrest exposes insane policing double standard

The man, clad unassumingly in an overcoat and tie, promptly shoves Menzies against a nearby plexiglass billboard, informing him he’s “under arrest for assault.” The camera briefly catches a smirking Freeland slinking out of the frame as the scene unfolds.

When Menzies starts to protest this shoddy treatment, the second plainclothes officer, dressed in a suit, cautions him, “You’ve been told you’re under arrest.” The man later claims falsely that the reporter was “pushing everybody over.”

“It is against the law in blackface’s (Justin Trudeau’s) Canada to ask insensitive questions,” Menzies remarks mid-perp walk. It was subsequently reported on Monday evening that Menzies was released from police custody without charges.

In one especially bizarre scene captured last week in downtown Toronto, just a 45-minute drive from Richmond Hill, a police officer (presumably moonlighting as an Uber Eats driver) hand-delivered an urn of Tim Horton’s coffee to a keffiyeh-clad protester. (A man standing next to the caffeine-starved demonstrator can be heard uttering the word “jihad”.)

 

The juxtaposition of the two clips perfectly illustrates a clear double standard in policing that has crystallized over the past several weeks. Handcuffs for journalists; double-doubles for jihadists.

 

Welcome to Justin Trudeau’s Canada.

[suds]

My first impression was that Freeland could have stepped in and supported Menzies' journalistic rights. I think she may have missed a big opportunity.

[CdnFox]

Well and being caught walking away smirking isn't helping.

This is something we should be pretty horrified about. When police just decide they can arrest reporters they don't like who are asking questions they don't like our democracy suffers horribly.  Every paper should be screaming about this.

[blackbird]

I don't think Trudeau, Freeland or Liberals particularly care about journalistic rights or anyone's rights for that matter, particularly independent journalists.  The government sees them as a threat. 

These politicians are a group of elite globalists who believe in the Marxist ideology which says that whatever they view as the common good takes precedence over individual rights.  This would be particularly true if the journalists don't come under the authority of the Canadian Parliamentary Press gallery.  Independent journalism is viewed as extremism, radical, and not entitled to normal rights of journalists such as freedom of the press or freedom of movement.

Edited January 11, 2024 by blackbird

[Zeitgeist]

Canada doesn’t have a free press.  Our mainstream media is government funded and approved.

 

[Guest]

18 hours ago, suds said:

My first impression was that Freeland could have stepped in and supported Menzies' journalistic rights. I think she may have missed a big opportunity.

People are sick of Trudeau's divisive rhetoric. This would have been prime time to convince them she is the front runner you should consider should he step down.

[Zeitgeist]

Freeland is a wannabe totalitarian.  No thanks.  

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, blackbird said:

I don't think Trudeau, Freeland or Liberals particularly care about journalistic rights or anyone's rights for that matter, particularly independent journalists.  The government sees them as a threat. 

 

Well that's fairly obvious i think, but the rest of us should and we should be raising 7 kinds of hell over this and so should the rest of the media.

[Nationalist]

Freeland belongs in jail!

Pixie-Dust belongs...ummm...hey just where does the little tyke belong? Certainly not in government.

[CdnFox]

39 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Freeland belongs in jail!

Pixie-Dust belongs...ummm...hey just where does the little tyke belong? Certainly not in government.

In the chocolate factory with the other oompa-loompas. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

Pixie-Dust belongs

Wherever his aircraft breaks down next. That should be something he is forced to sign up on.

It really doesn't matter where it is, as long as its remote.

He couldn't read the crowd if it was an audio book.

[herbie]

Oh the poor oaf got hauled away for a couple hours.

After being such a disruptive P.I.T.A. so often the RCMP recognize him on sight.
And all the fools referring to him as a 'journalist'...

[Nefarious Banana]

5 hours ago, Zeitgeist said:

Freeland is a wannabe totalitarian.  No thanks.  

She'd be kicked to the curb in an election . . .

[Nefarious Banana]

24 minutes ago, herbie said:

Oh the poor oaf got hauled away for a couple hours.

After being such a disruptive P.I.T.A. so often the RCMP recognize him on sight.
And all the fools referring to him as a 'journalist'...

The mental evaluation you need is probably covered by medical insurance.  Take advantage.

[herbie]

Wishing for a Chretien that could choke a heckler all by himself instead?

Or just more parroting MAGA rightwingers whining about politicized police?

[CdnFox]

4 minutes ago, herbie said:

Wishing for a Chretien that could choke a heckler all by himself instead?

Or just more parroting MAGA rightwingers whining about politicized police?

Exactly, i mean what kind of far right nutbar do you have to be to complain about falsely arresting reporters or freedom of the press?!?  Don't you guys realize it was a LEFT WING POLITICIAN who was being questioned?  The guy's lucky they didn't just start shooting!

[herbie]

No we don't. No left wingers were around, just a hack who thinks he's a reporter, some cops and the Deputy Prime Minister. Just your deviant imagination any leftists were involved.

[CdnFox]

57 minutes ago, herbie said:

No we don't. No left wingers were around, just a hack who thinks he's a reporter, some cops and the Deputy Prime Minister. Just your deviant imagination any leftists were involved.

Sure there was - freeland for a start.

But i was referring to here. There's plenty of lunatic lefties who care nothing for freedoms if it's a "right wing hack'.  For example,  someone who perhaps tries to dismiss or defend having a reporter arrested for fake charges. Can you think of anyone? Did you need a mirror?

[Legato]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

No we don't. No left wingers were around, just a hack who thinks he's a reporter, some cops and the Deputy Prime Minister. Just your deviant imagination any leftists were involved.

Hers a plane ticket. You will need it to get back on base.

 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2024 by Legato