Ezra Levant, founder of Rebel News, was arrested Sunday for breach of the peace while documenting pro-Hamas protesters that were terrorizing a Jewish neighborhood near his home in Toronto.
Levant asserts he was not causing a disturbance; he was on a public sidewalk and silently recording the regularly scheduled protest before he was approached by an officer and ultimately taken to a jail cell and held for several hours. He says Toronto Police Sergeant MacDuff sided with the protesters.
"He has acted as the concierge for pro-Hamas bigots, propagandist, threateners," the reporter laments. "He has turned a blind eye to actual crimes committed by those Hamas thugs."
Levant argues the sergeant gave the protesters a veto over his own Charter rights. He likens the situation to the KKK burning a cross on the lawn of a black church and the police telling the folks inside not to antagonize the KKK outside because they could get violent.
He adds that most of the protesters that are enjoying Toronto PD protection are not even Canadian citizens.
"They're foreign nationals," Levant notes. "They should be arrested, prosecuted, and deported immediately, but instead, they're treated as preferred citizens by the Toronto police."
He has been released from jail, and the police declined to press charges, but Levant has had enough of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's two-tier policing in Canada.
"This is not the end of the story for me," the reporter promises. "This is actually the beginning."
He says the police need a judge to tell them what they are doing is wrong.
