Ezra Klein Of Rebels News Arrested For Telling Policeman He Was a Servant Of the Law, Not, In Fact, The Law Manifest In Human Form

I was arrested two hours ago, handcuffed, searched and jailed for “causing a disturbance”.

I was just released moments ago.

I wasn’t causing a disturbance — I was standing by myself on a public sidewalk, silently filming a grotesque pro-Hamas mannequin in a Jewish neighbourhood… https://t.co/xWs0ZgrBeW

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) November 24, 2024

From Vlad Tepes:

Here is a tweet about his arrest the other day. Members of his organization are arrested routinely. Usually for doing what all journalists should do, but do not. Occasionally his journalists are physically attacked. One could argue about the wisdom of The Rebels’ tactics in the practical if you like, but not the rightness or legality of them ever. But this arrest was special. A police officer, who was enforcing mob rule of a Muslim communist gang of Bolsheviks and jihadis, for the safety of everyone else you understand, declared himself “the law”. Much as Anthony Fauci declared himself to be science not that long ago. Ezra reminded him that he was a servant of the law, and not the law itself.

This article argues both of them are wrong. Ezra’s view is the de jure one, and a vestigial one at that. The policeman, overly comfortable with his monopoly on use of force and being fully cognizant that Rule of Law no longer applies and he is to do whatever he has to or can do, to stop people from being injured at these events (short of actually enforcing the law against the violent and threatening mob) in a Jewish neighbourhood in Toronto yesterday.

Here is the text of Ezra’s tweet on the matter:

@ezralevant
I was arrested two hours ago, handcuffed, searched and jailed for “causing a disturbance”.

I was just released moments ago.

I wasn’t causing a disturbance — I was standing by myself on a public sidewalk, silently filming a grotesque pro-Hamas mannequin in a Jewish neighbourhood — a reenactment of Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar. It would be like someone reenacting Hitler — and police were stopping me from filming it.

I was pushed away from it by one officer. And another officer, named Macduff, said if I didn’t go to a special “free speech zone” they’d set up far away, I’d be arrested. I told him Canada was my free speech zone, I was a citizen and taxpayer, and I would not get off the sidewalk.

Macduff said that was causing a reaction. I said the hysterical reaction of foreign thugs who hate Jews (and most other Canadians) doesn’t give them a veto over my Charter rights.

Macduff said he “was the law”. I told him no, he was a servant of the law. So he arrested me and had me taken to jail. I was just released and I’ll have more to say — including in a lawsuit against Macduff and
@TorontoPolice
for violating my rights and refusing to protect me. Go to http://SaveEzra.com for more updates, and to help. (Thanks.)

The following video is just under 8 minutes. But the key part begins at about 1:58