![]() “Even if he was acting in his role as peacekeeper for the residents of tent city, it did not allow him to act in the manner that he did. McEachern’s evidence did not raise any reasonable doubt, Wishart said. The judge accepted Duncan’s evidence that McEachern tried to grab at his camera and tried to kick him. “That day I was doing security and two girls told me a newsman stuck cameras in their tent,” McEachern said.ĭespite the video evidence, McEachern denied being angry, assaulting Duncan or touching the TV camera. His job as a peacekeeper was to make sure people in tent city felt safe. He testified that was one of 13 men and four women who were breaking up fights and sorting out squabbles every 15 minutes. McEachern, who now lives in social housing at 844 Johnson St., said Brett had “registered” him as a member of an internal tent city residents’ security force, known as the peacekeepers. “They were trying to apologize for what happened,” Duncan said. “We can’t have this.”ĭuncan wanted to get away from McEachern and headed to his car. In the video, Chrissie Brett, an advocate considered to be an unofficial spokeswoman for the tent city, can be seen trying to calm McEachern down. He fell backward over debris, went down and kept rolling. I held onto the camera and kept rolling, using it as a defence mechanism.”ĭuncan kept backing up and kept the camera rolling, he testified. “He was yelling at me to stop taking his picture. One weird trick and Doctors hate her are like the Pong of clickbait lines. Wishart ordered a presentence report to help when she sentences the 55-year-old, who suffers from schizophrenia, early in the new year. the cameraman just kept recording omgwhut. The video of their interaction was a key piece of evidence at McEachern’s trial in Victoria provincial court on Tuesday (warning: video contains coarse language).Īfter hearing evidence from a police officer, Grebanier, Duncan and McEachern, Judge Sue Wishart found McEachern guilty of assaulting the veteran cameraman. Then he saw Duncan and started screaming and swearing at him to stop filming. Tent city resident John McEachern caught sight of CHEK News cameraman Steve Grebanier first. government was heading back to court to try to evict residents of a homeless camp at the Victoria courthouse.Ī fire inspection had found that the tent city posed a risk to life and safety: There were flammable tarpaulins, combustibles stored throughout the camp and items blocking exit paths. Duncan was filming background shots for a CTV news story that the B.C. I didn’t stand for it.Cameraman Kirk Duncan kept rolling, even as he was assaulted by an angry tent city resident. ![]() At that point, I thought he was just some dude who had a microphone in his hand who was trying to disrespect me. ![]() I’m not a huge Travi$ Scott fan so that was my first time actually seeing him in concert. What he meant was, that’s how he likes to have his shows. What happened was I think he spoke to a number of people, and they told me that he apologized and that he didn’t mean anything by it. On Twitter, he said that he apologized to you. Is that true? That’s how I felt at the time, but cooler heads prevailed, and I’m able to walk away, and now with things going viral I’m able to laugh about it. I can laugh about it now because cooler heads prevailed, but I asked him if he wanted to fight-not so much in those words-but I asked him if he wanted to fight because again, going back to me being a man, a short man from Brooklyn, I’ve been in plenty of situations where jokes go a little too far. He called you a nerd and was like "no disrespect" like that made it OK. I felt like he was trying to violate me, so I reacted. I have no problem with him or his show, but I felt that what he did was disrespectful and it crossed the lines of manhood. That’s when people jumped on stage and kind of had to pull me away from the situation. We exchanged some words, because I thought what he was doing was crazy. At that point, we were face to face and he was violating my personal space. So when he came and he started pointing his finger that’s when I realized he was talking to me. Record snowpack expected to put 14.5 million acre-feet of water into upper Colorado, raising drought-depleted reservoir by at least 50 feet. I had been back and forth recording on and offstage, but I stayed onstage for his whole set, so initially I didn’t know where it was coming from. He was pointing, but I didn't think he was talking to me because I had been there the whole show. I didn’t even know he was talking to me at first. What was your initial reaction when Travi$ stopped everything and called you out?
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