https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RdwjBsiew&t=1618s
Thanks for this Candice
Below are a few excerpts from the video depicting the disgusting level of police brutality in Ottawa over the weekend. I am trying to transcribe the portion of the video that depicts the disgusting and violent actions of the Ottawa Police which incidentally was ignored by our mainstream media
It begins at 9:50
Justin Trudeau is going after journalists. What is happening in Canada? Great question. What is happening in Canada? Well, what is happening in Canada? It's a Great question. Well, over the weekend, what did we see? We saw a militarized police zone using undue force using over-the-top force and completely disproportionate force against a group of unarmed and peaceful protesters just by very virtue of them being in Ottawa meant that they were the target of the police and the Trudeau government efforts.
And unsurprisingly, It devolved into a very chaotic, very dangerous situation, so I'll show you some of the low lights from the weekend of police brutality. And let me just make this point. If this was happening at any other circumstance in recent history. If this is happening at any other point in the last two years against any other group, if this was not a group of working-class truckers, of people who said we've had enough of this government overreach of this medical tyranny that we've been living under. It was any other group and you saw images like this of the police, the left would be on the complete other side. There would be over the top calls for these cops to be fired, to be reprimanded, defund the police, any small act of police using force, not even disproportionate force, just police using force in their job over the past two years has been completely blown out of proportion as an instance of police brutality and why we ought to defund the police, OK?
I see people who spent the last two years yelling about that issue are now either completely silent or they're cheering on the police brutality because they are cracking down on a group of conservative adjacent or conservative align protesters. People who come from a working-class background. It is so stark. It is so hypocritical. It is unbelievable.
Regardless, here are a couple instances of what it looked like. So first we have a veteran who is manhandled by police officers: knee him several times in the kidney. Here's what that looked like.
Next, we have a protester who is hauled away by cops. Watch for the end of the clip because a police officer takes his rifle, takes his gun, and uses it to beat a protester with the stock of his gun and you can see him do two solid blows there with a stock of his gun. This is police brutality. This is totally unacceptable. Here is what that looked like.
Next, here is a police officer rushing a protestor and hitting him once he's already on the ground.
And so, as the police were using increasingly violent tactics in order to crack down on these peaceful protesters, they at some point decided to bring in horses for what? To do some kind of crowd control? I don't even understand. This is right outside the Chateau Laurier hotel and upscale hotel, right in the heart of Parliament, right in the center of Ottawa. They Bring out the police and as you can see in the kerfuffle in the excitement of police going through a crowd trampled 2 individuals and knocked them over, stepped on one of the one of the women, including an 80 year old First Nations woman.. This is tough to watch, but here is what this looks like.
Just in case you want to see how bad it was Here Is the aerial view and still you can see the horses trampling on two individuals who just failed to get out of the way, you could see from the footage there that it wasn't like people knew that these horses were coming. They kind of came out of nowhere. They whipped around the corner These two individuals clearly didn't see what was going on. The woman who was knocked over the 80 or woman was on a mobility scooter and from the aerial picture you can see the scooter on the ground. So its not like this is an agile woman who could easily get out of the way. She obviously had no idea this was coming, and I don't know what was worse the fact that this was the way the police were behaving and acting or the fact that there were a lot of people cheering them on cheering this kind of thing on and that the media didn't really bat an eye, didn't really bat an eye over the use if anything they were out there saying, oh, this isn't trampling. These people weren't trampling.
And we had something new that I've never seen before. The Ottawa police were tweeting in real time pushing out their own propaganda their own version of events. So they weren't really taking questions. They weren't really responding.
Journalists at one point I was on the phone trying to confirm whether or not anyone had been killed in the protests. No response, no replies. I left messages. I called multiple lines. I emailed. I sent the messages on Twitter. No response. Whatsoever, the only response you get from the Ottawa police.is they're tweeting their own timeline of events in their own perspective, twisting and spinning the facts to fit their narrative of what was going on.
So here is an example of that, Ottawa police wrote. We hear your concern for people on the ground after the horses dispersed the crowd, anyone who fell got up and walked away. We're unaware of any injuries. A bicycle was thrown at a horse further down the line and caused the horse trip. The horse was uninjured. OK, so a lot of people on Twitter were really upset about this because the idea that everyone who was hurt got up and walked away. Well, it just simply isn't true. Here is a woman who was trampled. Her name is Candy, and she wrote this
I care to correct the "no injury" statement at of the Ottawa Police I was nearly killed. Again. 80 year Old First Nations woman. Usually this would be the kind of woman that the left would hold up as a victim of police brutality and they would be on her side and they would be there demanding resignation of the officers of whoever ordered that the police chief of the local politicians, but instead, because of the backdrop of this freedom convoy. Nothing. Nothing. No. No, you don't hear anything from the left in support of this woman.
It is absolutely wild and his whole nonsense about a bicycle being thrown at the horse again. I tried to verify that I looked at a lot of footage over the weekend. A lot of people were saying that the bicycle was actually. the mobility scooter. So we go back to that aerial photo. You can see how the horse knocked over the woman with the air with the mobility scooter. And that is lying on the ground. So people were like, is that where you're talking about throwing a bicycle is actually just a mobility scooter. All someone did send me footage of a man with a bicycle but he had no in no way. In no way did he throw this at the police. He he used a bicycle to pull himself back, if anything, to stop the police from beating him. He kind of had the bike in front of him. And then you could see him leave. So this whole idea that he threw at a horse and was causing the horse to trip. Is is just completely, completely untrue.
OK, there is more. so, here is the police hauling away a protester and kneeing him once he's on the ground so here, that's what that looked like.
And so it wasn't just this kind of force in kneeing people and hitting people with guns that we saw. We also saw the police start using pepper spray or some kind of a chemical irritant. And you can see it in this clip, the Ottawa police are just sort of wildly spraying the pepper spray, it's not targeted at any individual. It's not an individual in a crowd who is ruckus and who is causing chaos and you want to target that one individual. Presumably that is what pepper spray is for. No, in this case, you're just sort of willy nilly just spraying the crowd, getting anybody who's there sort of punishing them for being there. Here's what that looked like.
So caught up in all of this chaos was our own, Andrew Lawton, journalist Andrew Lawton was on the ground for True North throughout the entire weekend. He was doing live streams. He was reporting he was talking to people He was trying to keep an eye on what was happening in the same way as many journalists. There was lots and lots of journalists from lots of outlets who were right there, sort of on the front lines or a few steps back from the front lines filming this whole thing, taking pictures, relaying the information to Canadians and to people all over the world because people all over the world were watching, so Andrew Lawton was in there he was doing that and for the crime of committing journalism, Andrew Lawton was pepper-sprayed in the face by a cop. It seemed to be targeted. It seemed to be aimed directly at him. So here is what Andrew looked like afterwards. Not a pleasant feeling to be sprayed in the face pretty much point blank, or at least at close range with pepper spray.
He got it really bad and because of that we, here at True North we decided to retain a lawyer. So we hired a lawyer we're now working with a lawyer here at True North. We are suing the police for assault and for targeting a working journalist. Andrew was just there doing his job trying to cover this event, trying to relay the information to Canadians. So we want to send a message to the police and Justin Trudeau and his emergency order. You don't get to beat up on journalists in this country. This is Canada. You do not get to do that and we will see you in court.
Unfortunately, Andrew Lawton was not the only journalist to be the victim of police brutality. Over the weekend. Alexa Levar over at the Rebel was beat up by a police officer. This is unbelievable footage. She was pushed, she was hit multiple times with the baton from a large male police officers online. She's sprayed with pepper spray and finally she was shot in the leg at point blank from a few feet away with some kind of a rubber bullet or a tear gas canister. This woman was brutalized and beat up by a cop, all caught on camera. Here is what that looked like and just to warn you, this is pretty gruesome. It is pretty hard to watch, but I think it's important to show you what was happening to a working journalist in our country over the weekend. Here's that clip.
So with a journalist sprayed in the face with pepper spray, another one brutalized and hit with a baton multiple times, you would think that the mainstream media, the legacy media there would be some kind of solidarity with journalists in this country that you would hear from legacy media saying, hey, that kind of force against journalists is absolutely not acceptable in this country. So did we hear that? No, no, we didn't hear that. What did we hear instead? Well, the journalist thought it was disgusting. Not not. It wasn't disgusting that Andrew Lawton was sprayed with pepper spray. It wasn't disgusting that Alexa Levar was beaten with a baton.
What was disgusting? Well, there was this clip that was circulating of a Quebec TV journalist who got pushed on air by a protester. Here's what that looked like.
Incredibly stupid stuff. OK. Whoever pushes whoever pushed a journalist on air is just completely stupid. There's no reason to do this. It is mean. It is stupid. It doesn't help anyone. If anything, all it does is galvanizes people. against you, it proves legacy media point correct that the protesters are just a violent group of thugs and that they're here to harass, intimidate the media and the legacy media did exactly what you would expect and milk every last ounce of that clip that that footage of one guy getting pushed, that is the big story for the journalist out of the news.
Forget about all the police brutality that I just showed you. Forget about a guy getting hit with a stock of a gun. Forget about a woman getting trampled by a horse. Forget about a young female journalist getting beat up with a police baton. They didn't cover any of that. They don't care about any of that. What do they care about? A push? The guy getting shoved on air. That is the main focus. So here's Glenn McGregor saying. Disgusting.
Every news crew has been harassed repeatedly trying to work. This is the first actual odd camera salt journalist I've seen. First on camera. So what about the on camera assault of Alexa? What about the on camera assault of Alexa? Levar did. Did he not? Did he not see that or or he just doesn't count her as a human Being as person and as journalists because he doesn't like the outlet that she works for. Well, journalists, again, they milked this, they jumped on it and. And again, this was a big story. So there's a Canadian Press story that ran in pretty much all of legacy media outlets. Journalism experts say threats to press during protest, a wake up call. So experts and advocates say the treatment of journalists captured in many cases on video during recent protests against public health measures should be a wake up call. What I've seen over the past two days has been absolutely sickening. It's absolutely sickening, absolutely sickening, said Brent Julie, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, in an interview.
This is what happens when you have brains scrambled by misinformation, younger bipac female reporters, which just means black, indigenous or people of color. So younger, nonwhite, female reporters. Experience significantly more vitriol than their white male journalists counterparts do, according to some experts at Carleton University.
As an odd point to make because the journalists who has been probably one of the most present journalists on the ground in Ottawa in talking to the protesters and trying to understand this protesters, not even a Canadian woman from India originally had been living in Canada. Rupa. Superman. I had her as a guest of my podcast a few weeks ago. She's a freelance writer and a columnist over at the National Post. She wrote this, huh? Basically, I fit that description. I am a young non white female. The only unpleasant experience I had at the protest was from a mask at Karen who really accosted me, invading my personal space. So she completely dispels this whole idea that that young women are getting harassed, that female journalists can't do their job. It's it's just not true.
But again, they use that one clip of the idiot of the stupid idiot who pushes a journalist on camera. Whoever that guy is, if you know him, tell him to give his head a shake. Tell him to not go anywhere near a freedom convoy protest ever again because he is just completely unhelpful. Stupid mean and there's no there's no excuse for that. It is idiotic. I completely condemn him. I'm just waiting for the legacy media to go ahead and condemn the police for beating up and brutalizing journalists who aren't part of legacy media.
Regardless, this whole narrative is what has come out of the protest. So our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Jolie, jumped in on that. She said I am appalled. See Canadian journalists assaulted, harassed, intimidated, and prevented from doing their jobs. It's unacceptable. Journalists are critical to our democracy and must be free and safe to do their work.
So again, this is all propaganda. It's all aimed at the idea that the truckers are evil, that the truckers are nefarious. They are a threat to our democracy and that the journalists are the real heroes, right? You know what I'm unaware of a single case of a legacy media journalist who's actually prevented from doing their job. OK, were they heckled? Where they where they cheered? Was there some cheering? Was there some booing while they were trying to do the reports? Yes, mostly because the legacy media was spreading misinformation and lying about the truckers from day one.
Were they prevented from doing their jobs. No, they were not. You know who was prevented from doing their jobs at times was members of the Independent Press. Members who aren't part of the government club who don't have government ID, who are not even allowed into the police, militarized occupied zone because they didn't have government IDs. So. So this whole idea that they were harassed, assaulted, intimidated,
OK, the ones that were assaulted were independent journalists, the ones who were performing their job were independent journalists. And it was cops that were preventing them from doing that, so again, just all totally spin, I'll make this point again on the podcast. I made it on Twitter. I said this has a single member of the legacy media, tweeted a message of support or solidarity to journalists like Andrew Lawton or like Silver, who were assaulted or brutalized and brutalized by police? Anyway. No, of course not. They would rather pretend that we don't exist. They would rather pretend that we were doing something wrong, that we deserved it somehow, that we shouldn't have been there
It's funny how people like Evan Solomon of CTV were there on the ground the entire time and he was applauded and heralded as a hero for being there and covering it at the same time, Andrew Lawton, Alexa, Lavoie the Rebel journalists were there, and people are like, oh, what were you even doing in there? The police told everyone to leave. The police said no media. You got what you deserved
It's like again just it's saying the double standards. Insane with the propaganda? Well, the propaganda continues.
listen to the video for the rest of the insanity from the legacy Media and our tyranical Prime Minister
