Police order independent Rebel News to hand over video from protest involving Josh Alexander
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(LifeSiteNews) – The head of independent media outlet Rebel News says police ordered his organization to hand over video footage from a protest in May involving Canadian high school student Josh Alexander, which he says is in direct contravention of the criminal code.
In a 25-minute video posted to Rumble last weekend, Rebel News founder Ezra Levant explained that Calgary Police Service “raided Rebel News” and went to court “secretly. Ex parte is the legal word.”
“We weren’t invited to be there, and they said something to a judge,” he noted.
Levant said that Rebel News has not been “able to see it and the judge issued an order demanding that we hand over footage that we haven’t published to the Calgary police.”
The video in question, which a lower Alberta court appeared to order Rebel News to hand over, concerns a May 17 protest in Calgary involving Josh Alexander. Rebel News was onsite at the protest to cover the event as was other independent media.
On May 17 at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alexander was arrested by members of the Calgary Police for staging a protest against gender ideology in schools. Last year, he was kicked out of his Ontario Catholic school for saying there are only two genders, male and female.
He was later released, but not after he was detained for speaking out against transgender ideology and for handing out Bibles, some of which were burned by transgender activists.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Calgary Police eventually charged a Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist with a hate crime for pushing Alexander during the Calgary protest, with Alexander himself remaining uncharged with a crime.
Rebel News: Police got it wrong. Only the Supreme Court can order a journalist to hand over information
Levant, in his video, said that Rebel News got a production order dated August 2 from the Alberta Court of Justice’s Criminal Division so that it could acquire the unpublished footage from the protest.