As Twitchy reported Friday, the Ottawa Police made it clear that if members of the media wanted coverage of the crackdown on Freedom Convoy protesters, there’d be an official press conference. They also made it clear that reporters would be subject to arrest if found within the “areas undergoing enforcement.”
We knew that Ezra Levant of Rebel News would have someone on the ground, and that person turned out to be Alexa Lavoie, who says she was clubbed and shot with a tear gas canister. We’d say we have our doubts about the story, but follow the thread far enough and you’ll see Lavoie’s footage from her phone. This is what it’s come to in order to prevent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from losing face and agreeing to meet with protesters about mandates.
1. I just spoke with Alexa Lavoie, our brave reporter who was just assaulted by Trudeau's police. She tells me a cop hit her three times with a club and then shot a tear gas canister at her leg from point-blank range.
Trudeau has instructed his police to attack journalists. pic.twitter.com/cCzOavctrz
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
2. Alexa says she was specifically targeted by a cop who saw her camera. She says he came up to her and beat her and pushed her down. She says he tried to knock the phone out of her hands, to stop her from filming.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
3. Here is video of the attack. I understand we have more footage. Unprovoked, targeted violence, beating a woman with a stick, and shooting her at point-blank range with a tear gas round. pic.twitter.com/yQXyDL4nJL
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
4. I have spoken with Alexa and with legal counsel. We will sue the police on Alexa's behalf.
I know the rest of the Media Party is delighting at Trudeau's brutality and martial law. But we still believe in peace and freedom.
Help me https://t.co/hh5yPCJSAS.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
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5. Trudeau has had a vendetta against Alexa ever since she asked this question of him during the election debates (after trying and failing to keep her kept out): pic.twitter.com/hPx5fR8uis
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
6. Just last fall Trudeau’s personal bodyguards beat up our reporter David Menzies. pic.twitter.com/VCUtLicD1z
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
7. I do not accept this. I do not accept the targeting of our journalists for violence by Trudeau’s thugs. I find it repugnant to see police hit a woman with a club and to shoot her to inflict pain & distress. Help me sue the police for Alexa. Please go to https://t.co/hh5yPCJSAS
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
8. Our reporter Alexa was attacked. Another independent reporter, @AndrewLawton was pepper-sprayed yesterday.
I have yet to see a peep from @caj, @PENCanada, @AmnestyNow, @CJFE, @pressfreedom, etc.
They do not oppose martial law or the crackdown on dissident journalists.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
9. Here's the moment the cop shot Alexa: https://t.co/IEafS90VoY
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
To attack anyone, of any age, everyone for non compliance. Freedom.
— Me Hi (0.1) ♻ (@eemi666) February 19, 2022
— Beemer (@alanbeemer) February 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/azurebednarcik/status/1495122465655341068
Remember, the police man was not just instructed, he wanted to do it.
— Bushkimani (@bushkimani) February 19, 2022
I have so much anger watching this.
— Sonia (@soniabella2007) February 19, 2022
Why are the police listening to Trudeau ???
— Stefran (@Stefran14) February 19, 2022
I’ve always been a supporter of the blue, it truly is sad to see these police officers following through with these orders. Especially towards people that mostly supported them.
— Balsan (@paolucci90) February 19, 2022
Well, to be honest, if you don't want the story told, you have to attack the journalists. It is just logical. There aren't many journalists left anyway, so no biggie.
— Mark Gordon (@mdgcentral99) February 19, 2022
Fair point.
They warned all media, if you get too close you may get hurt. They can still report without getting right up into the crowd of occupiers.
— Michael McCormick (@Michael33337879) February 19, 2022
You would like that since that would make it where media cannot see things like this happen to others.
— ShadowSuit (@BeingShadowSuit) February 19, 2022
To all the uniformed police in Canada and around the world – stand up for truth and righteousness – you know what you are doing is evil – do not support tyranny – now is the time – when tyranny becomes law – rebellion is mandatory – stand against the evil
— CBCA (@hu62486213) February 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/AForcas198/status/1495121425652461571
The replies to Levant’s thread are pretty appalling. First, Rebel News is considered the Canadian Fox News, so people are reluctant to call Lavoie a journalist. And second, a lot of people said the police gave advance warning, so she should have just complied — which is funny, because it’s what so many Black Lives Matter protesters said about Ashli Babbit … she should have just complied with police and she’d be alive.
Take it with a grain of salt if you must, but that footage of police pushing protesters back is pretty horrifying.
Related:
Keith Olbermann wants more of Canadian protesters getting trampled by police horses https://t.co/Wi2FNWqxur
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 19, 2022
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