Canadian high schooler Josh Alexander undeterred after arrest for protesting children’s drag queen event
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The teenager said that ‘I’m certainly not going to back down’ from threats to silence his protests against sexualization of children.
(LifeSiteNews) — Canadian high school student Josh Alexander says he will “not back down” despite being arrested, held in a police car for hours, handcuffed, charged for trespassing, and then dumped on the side of the road after preaching the Gospel in protest of a drag queen event geared toward children last week in Ottawa.
Ottawa Police arrested four people protesting a drag queen story time event on February 8 at the National Arts Centre. One of those people arrested was Alexander, who had co-organized the protest.
In speaking with LifeSiteNews today, Alexander said the protesters had been allowed by a liaison to gather outside the venue but quickly were outnumbered by aggressive counter-protesters and “pushed away from the doors.”
Alexander had been reading passages from the Gospel via a megaphone.
“We got surrounded, pushed up against the wall,” he said. “They hit us a bit, they shoved us, they grabbed us, they ripped my hat off, stomped it out into the ground. I never got it back, my hat.”
“When the police saw this, instead of stopping our attackers, they grabbed myself and my crew and they threw us into traffic.”
Alexander said they tried to get back onto the sidewalk but were thrown back onto the road by the Ottawa Police Service.
“The cops that were on the road decided to arrest my brother (Nick) for being on the road,” Alexander said.
Nick was arrested but let go after about 30 minutes and was not charged.
The drag story time event saw drag performers China Doll and Cyril Cinder read stories to kids as part of Capital Pride’s Winterlude programming.