Syndicated with permission via Valiant News| Tom Pappert| Men who appear to be police officers gained access to Proud Boys and Censored.tv founder Gavin McInnes’s New York studio earlier tonight as he broadcast his network’s Thursday night live broadcast.
Shortly after the show began, police officers believed by Censored.tv subscribers to be federal agents gained access to the studio. McInnes, who founded the web network Censored.tv after being canceled on social media, is heard having a heated verbal exchange with the officers before leaving the studio. McInnes’ stream was left unattended for over an hour before it ended.
McInnes, standing at his desk, is heard saying “Yeah. Alright, I’m happy to do that. I’ll get a lawyer, and we will sit down and have a conversation. We’ll schedule a meeting, and I’ll sit down with my lawyer.” The officer’s response is not caught on the microphone, but the officer spoke and McInnes replied, “I didn’t let you in.”
DEVELOPING: looks like Gavin McInnes was visited by law enforcement (alleged feds) while live-streaming his show
The stream has now been live for 30 minutes and Gavin is nowhere to be seenpic.twitter.com/3Wtj4QFS1q
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) August 26, 2022
What appear to be chirping noises made by police radios can be heard in the video, but viewers reported only silence after McInnes left the frame until the stream was taken offline.
Prior to the Thursday night incident, McInnes told viewers of Censored.tv that he had reason to believe he was under some sort of surveillance.
“Then today I go outside, and my neighborhood is not downtown, it’s a lonely suburb. There’s an unmarked police car parked in front of my house. So I walked over to it and I go, ‘How we doing?’” McInnes said in an episode of his podcast released earlier this week, “And they look very uncomfortable.”
The feds finally made their move on Gavin McInnes. They arrested him in front of his audience. The message is clear: anti-communist views will not be tolerated. pic.twitter.com/FmCBEbFv5g
— Nikolai (@bananasorblow) August 26, 2022
McInnes is the founder of Vice Media and the Proud Boys. He left the Proud Boys in 2019 after several Proud Boys were attacked by Antifa after a speech he delivered at the New York Young Republicans Club, and was not part of the club on January 6, 2021.
The cultural pundit has previously indicated he believed he would be asked to testify, either for the January 6 committee or at trial for one or more of the Proud Boys arrested for attending the January 6 protests.
It’s unclear what branch of law enforcement visited McInnes’ studio, which is based in New York City.
Valiant News contacted Censored.tv’s producer for comment and did not receive an immediate response.
This is a breaking news story and may be updated with additional information as it becomes available.
