Musk, Poilievre React to Arrest of Rebel News Reporter

Published on January 9, 2024

The arrest of Rebel News reporter David Menzies on Jan. 8 while attempting to question Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland about Canada’s stance on Iran has caught the attention of tech mogul Elon Musk. Mr. Musk, who owns social media platform X, was quick to weigh in on the video of the arrest, which was widely circulated on the platform. “Fine for the officer to body block someone trying to get close to a senior government official, but false to say that he deliberately assaulted an officer,” he said in a Jan. 8 post on X. Mr. Musk’s comment was in response to the video of the arrest, which was posted by another journalist who said Mr. Menzies “was falsely arrested on a trumped up charge of assaulting an officer.”...

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