The Highwire with Del Bigtree - REPORTER SHOT BY POLICE AT POINT BLANK RANGE

Episode Date: March 5, 2022

Rebel News reporter, Alexandra Lavoie, has covered the peaceful Ottawa trucker protest from the beginning, but found herself a victim of the emergency orders put in place by Trudeau, which triggered aggressive police measures. Hear about her serious injury and how her organization has been targeted for not following the mainstream news narrative.#AlexaLavoie #RebelNews #TruckerProtestBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

I want to look at France because, you know, French, we know that the French tend to be, you know, they've been protesting since the dawn of man. And when we think of protests, we always look to France. But there it has been so intense and so serious that interaction between citizens, you know, simply trying to go to restaurants and stand for freedom against the police that are there. And the images just continue to be shocking. So let's just take a look at France and what's been happening there. Just a journalist, monsieur. It's a journalist. Hey, I'm not.

Oh, oh, are there. It's all right there. Damn it. Just shocking images of brutality coming out of France, and maybe we've gotten used to that. Maybe we say, well, that's France, that's how they handle things. But even more shocking, as we have been following this trucker's convoy in Canada that have gone in and blocked Ottawa and all the conversations we've been covering it for weeks in parliance.

the discussions, emergency, you know, state of emergency issued by Trudeau. And in the middle of that, some images that I don't think we ever thought would come out of Canada. I mean, when I think of Canada, I think of, you know, the Mountie and the Red suit, you know, seems like a, you know, pretty, you know, docile group of people. I mean, not to put down Canada your great hockey players, but honestly, you tend to be pretty mellow. And then to realize and watch as these sort of Mounties and this image of, of sort of a posture and control in Canada being reduced to troopers and moving in and trampling people.

I don't know if you saw these images, but if you have children in the room and maybe cover their eyes right now because it is incredibly shocking the total destruction of humanity that is taking place in Canada. Here's some of those images. Oh, come on through. Come on through. What is happening here? Wow. What is this lady doing? Trampling. Trampling horses. They just trampled that lady. They just fully trampled that lady. They just fully trampled that lady. Now, the lady got fully trampled over the horse. I mean, trampling people with horses, a photo over that image right there shows that one of these people that was trampled obviously was handicapped.

obviously was handicapped, you know, using some form of a medical stroller device. I don't know if they have a broken leg or what. But just, you know, is this Canada? Is this what we knew to be that socialist, you know, neighbor to the United States of America? I'm sure they are shocked themselves. But the rhetoric coming out of the government there and the lies and the seat and how they see their own citizens. I mean, look at this ridiculous statement made inside of this. the House of Politics there.

How many guns need to be seized? How much vitriol do we have to see of honk honk, which is an acronym for Hail Hitler? Do we need to see by these protesters on social media? I did not know that honking your horn twice was an acronym for Hail Hitler. I'd better make note because, God forbid, you know, oh, did I just do that?

You know, it's stormtroopers smashing in your window. Now you're a Nazi for honk of your horn twice. I mean, unbelievable that people in Canada are even accepting that kind of language. It is so incredibly absurd. Yet when we hear from the people themselves in the streets, it's a totally different story. Here's a great interview by Rebel News of just one of those individuals standing for medical freedom and peace. Well, I think this is one giant narrative. It's kind of like a movie.

and it's been that way all along where they bring the cameras here. It's like a big film set. They bring all the police, they point the cameras where they want, and then they provoke, they push us. It's been peaceful the whole time, the last three weeks. Yesterday, we were all peaceful here. The police were the ones pushing. Most of the police are, they seem like just people doing their job.

It's a tough job. It's probably the toughest days of their career. But what's happening here is not being what's told in the media. And literally it is a movie. They have a narrative. They're following Trudeau's hate that's being, that's dividing us. And thank God there are some media outlets that are actually reporting on what's going on. Last night, I witnessed a cameraman from Global, literally violently shoved someone, turn on the camera,

and then the reporter get on camera. That literally happened. Thankfully, someone was filming it. they reported it and are pressing charges against that cameraman. But what we're seeing here is the media that's taking part in this division to fool people across this country, across the world about what's happening. And what's happening here is we're not being divided. We're actually coming together as one, which is what the government's afraid of.

So people need to wake up to actually realize what this is about. This isn't a racist movement. What's happening is we're just being divided again. So thank you for reporting on what's the truth. I love how your references, like they're making a movie here basically, pushing an agenda, setting up shots and getting the shot they want to, you know, push their agenda out. I know we all have friends that see the events in Canada totally differently than those of us that are watching, you know, rebel news and places like that, the high wire.

We're actually seeing all of these different people coming together. They're not racist. Every walk of life standing in solidarity. In this case, carrying gas cans to those guys. the trucks that are, you know, trying to stay warm, keep everything calm, peace everywhere, and yet the media and Trudeau are trying to talk as though this is some sort of, you know, Hitler revolution. It's absolutely crazy. They're not getting away with it. But when we think about those on the ground, like, as he said, so many of the news agencies lying, but thank you

to the ones that are not lying. Rebel News, we've had much of their footage and been thankful for their footage coming out of the convoy up in Canada. But check out this. shocking image of one of the reporters on the front lines with rebel news. It used to be that if you were carrying press credentials and a microphone, even the middle of a Vietnam War, a world war, the action went around you. We have an understanding across the entire world to leave the press alone. Obviously, Canada is so lost now that we have to see images like this. It's hurt. It's not.

It's not. It's a matter. It's softer. It's like chilly. Incredible moment captured there where, you know, a canister was shot, tear gas at point-flank range against Alexa LeVois, who is a reporter, there just trying to get the story. Alexa, I, first of all, as a reporter, I want to say you were really putting it on the line. But were you under the line.

the impression that a reporter should have been out of the line of fire when the police saw. Clearly, you're wearing a badge, you're holding a microphone. I was actually targeted. I'm probably sure because the gun was point on me, and I've been hit by the club three times just before I got shot in my legs. So the thing is like I'm not even sure, but I think they wanted me to stop. As you know, my camera person, Guillermo Rua, was. filming and he got paper spray as well in his camera but in his eyes as well. So clearly they

didn't want nobody to film what it was going on in the front line, especially everything was so peaceful and the violence had been provoked. They tried to provoke a reaction from the protester that was just there and holding the line peacefully and no violence was coming from them. And the only violence that I saw so far was coming from the line of the police officer. As a reporter, when you watch the news reporting the opposite in mainstream television saying that the protesters are violent, they're white supremacists, what is it like? What do you think of those reporters that are doing that when you think, you know, that's my profession, those are my peers. What do you have to say of those? Because they're a part of this.

In fact, in some ways, I believe they're responsible. Do you see that the same way? Like, I'm in the ground since the 28th of January. I spend, like, now I'm still in Ottawa. It will be months that I'm here every day, almost 20 hours per day reporting on the ground. And what I saw so far is not white supremacists. It's not racist people. It's nothing of that.

It's loving people who help each other, who give their time. They give their money, what they have for, for. food and they are coming every day on the ground to help each other. And it's nothing of what they say so far from the mainstream media of the state media. I know that they report on the swastika flag. Surprisingly, it was on the side of a hotel really hiding and nobody saw it. Only the mainstream media. But I don't know. They were really lucky to see it, but I didn't see any of that here. Any violence? Nothing of that. So and the woman just for let you know, she's a I I had the chance to have an interview with her. She's a first nation

woman. Okay. And she had a problem with to walk. And now she have a problem with she have a broken bone. This is the woman trampled by the horse we're talking about. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Yeah, she's from the first nation. Okay, very good. And so she hurt her shoulder also when she was trampled by the horse? Yeah.

When you, you know, as we watch this from around the world, these images are very shocking, especially in Canada. I mean, maybe, I mean, do we have the wrong perception? I've always, I mean, I went to school for a little while in Canada, really just the nicest, most caring people. I think it's more shocking coming out of Canada than almost anywhere else in the world. Is this how it's always been, or is there a shift in the energy from the politicians in their view of the citizens of Canada?

It's so funny because at the beginning of the Freedom Convoy, the police was really nice, waving at the protesters, same like helping them, giving them some eater for their hand. And when Prime Minister Trudeau went out and said, no, we need to clear the place out. We will invoke the Emergencies Act. We saw that the police was not the same minding. We saw that they received order. The communication was not the same. They changed really a lot of their behavior.

They gave some warning paper in the world role. Until that Friday, everything started, police action, and they break true. When we watch this now, do you feel like, and I know you're a reporter, not necessarily an activist, you're there to capture it, is the sense on the ground that this is working? Is this a way as other nations struggle to be heard by their governments? You know, we're watching Austria right now under incredible crackdowns, lockdowns, their rights being fined. if they don't get vaccinated, France, other nations like this. Are peaceful protests like this successful anymore? Is this a way to approach this?

Or is it just futile? But we can see that it's the same thing that happened, not only in Europe, in Austria, in Australia, not really far ago, we have our reporter, Avi Yemeni, that is there and report on the ground. If you're not following the narrative, you are, part of the population that we are not understand and we are destroying them, we are diabolizing them. And so it's just so sad because these people are the one most of the time who have suffering

from the mandates, from the lockdown. And they are there everything. They lost their job. They lost some members of their family because they suicide. Some of them economically, they have no money that's coming for their family. And the prime minister doesn't try to, at least try to communicate with them and try to negotiate maybe a middle to reach, make everybody happy. I have a narrative that they are all following, but surprisingly, nobody say, oh, this event is a super spreader event for COVID-19. Nobody has talking about COVID-19 anymore.

They were just like, we need to clear out. This movement is dangerous. Dangerous for what? It's all peaceful people. It's all family, children, women, elderly people. They are not there to disturb anybody. they are there for having their freedom back. Is this event having been in the middle of the bit,

are you going to continue reporting or have you had enough for you backing away now? No, I will continue to report until like all the truth came out because we don't have the same narrative coming from all the media. We need to have someone in the ground reporting on the other side of the story. So what is really happening? And people are craving of it. It's why now we reach almost,

we reach more than one million subscribers just recently. So that makes us the most media subscriber in Canada. So that's mean that people are craving for truth. Well, first of all, I want to thank you personally and Rebel News for all the work you've been doing. We've been using your footage. You've been sharing with us. I want to thank you.

It is going to be, you know, alternate media, I think that is going to sort of shift this discussion around the world. And we, too, are experiencing the same thing. We're doing better numbers than Fox programs and CNN and MSNBC because I think the truth ultimately prevails. In order to follow you, everyone that wants to follow the work that Alexa is doing, we have her website. Here you go, Rebel News. Stand with Alexa on February 19. You can go ahead and donate here. Stand with Alexa.com.

You're doing amazing work. I think you should, Sue. We want to see. I mean, these are the types of things. We've got to make them, you know, hold them accountable for their actions against humanity. And you represent that on the front line. Do you, would you say that you have a positive feeling

about the future of Canada and perhaps the world, or are you very concerned? I would say my personal opinion, I would be a little bit concerned if they try to stop the protest because it's the freedom of expression that you stop and is a right of the population. So my concern will see like in the next couple of weeks coming what it will look like.

But now they abandon the emergency hack. That is actually a good thing. I'm actually really happy of it. But let's see how the government will act in the next few weeks coming. Okay, very good. Alexa, we'll continue to follow you. Thank you for being such a hero,

a champion for truth, and representing what it really means to be a journalist. I would say 99.99% of journalists around the world should follow your lead instead of carrying a propaganda agenda. So thank you for your work. It's an honor to get the opportunity to talk to you. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

You too. Take care.