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Police in Ontario have dropped charges against a reporter arrested while trying to ask Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland a question, saying "no credible security threat existed." Video showed Freeland was walking down a public sidewalk when David Menzies approached her with a microphone and began walking alongside her, asking about the government's decision to leave the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps off its designated terrorist list. An officer stepped into Menzies's path, and Menzies appeared to bump into him. The officer then grabbed Menzies, shoved him against a wall, and told him he was under arrest for assault.
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Police in Ontario have dropped charges against a reporter arrested while trying to ask Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland a question...
All's well that ends well, eh?
Not unless that LEO is punished.
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Yet another case, this time aborted, that cries out/would cry out for jury nullification. There are plenty of such cases that make it to full blown courtroom parturition.
JURY NULLIFICATION: Learn it. Live it. Do it. Never admit it.
See, they really are just like the U.S.A.
In the Lesser Islamic Inner Canuckistanistanistanistanistan, per the wishes of Moose-Mammary-Necrophilia-Farter-Fuhrer (AKA Mother's Lament, with a Head full of Cement; ALL HAIL!!!), one can legally do the following: Drive your car right in front of another car, slam on the brakes REALLY hard, and then SUE the other driver for ASSAULTING your car!!! AND win in court!
Wow, that comment was unHihnged.
Now that I've had my morning covfefe, I am QUITE hinged again, thankyewverramuch!!!!
Wait! You said unHihnged, not unhinged! So now I am left wondering, is it better to be Hihnged, or unHihnged? And why?
Surely, ass a bro-member in good standing, of the illumi-naughty, you will be able to illuminate these matters for me, for free?
Thanks in advance, and in yer pants!
(I am a ho of the mo of the bro, and can rap my head around just about anything! Butt if you do NOT illuminate these matters for me, for free... Then... You're busted! I'm disgusted! You can't be trusted!)
To Hihnge, or not to Hihnge, that is the question!
Are you sure it wasn't just wHinhging?
the recording of the encounter was chilling and not because it took place in Canadia
Trudeau has really done a number on Canada.
Really just a 'proof of concept' thing.
Keep your eyes open in the US 2024 elections.
Castro’s legacy.
The officer gets two for roughing.