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By Dorothy Cummings McLean<\/p>\n
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 A teenage boy was arrested twice as a consequence of his public stance against coercive promotion of COVID-19 vaccines to children.<\/p>\n The 18-year-old, whose full name is known to LifeSiteNews, prefers to be known as \u201cEvan Freedom\u201d in print.<\/p>\n Evan, a Grade 12 student at Nutana Collegiate, told LifeSite that a school official took him out of his classroom on the morning of May 20 and led him to an office where he was arrested and handcuffed by two officers from the Saskatoon Police Service. He was discretely spirited away through a back door, taken to a police station, fingerprinted, photographed, kept in a cell for more than six hours, and charged with one count of causing a disturbance (\u201cby shouting\u201d) and three counts of mischief over $5,000.<\/p>\n \u201cI was absolutely stunned,\u201d Evan said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n His youthful career as a freedom activist began last summer when he began looking into claims about the coronavirus. \u201cIt just seemed sketchy to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n But Evan began going to anti-lockdown rallies and speaking out publicly against masks, lockdown restrictions, and the experimental COVID-19 vaccines only two months ago. In late April, he went to a freedom rally in Regina, Saskatchewan \u2014 his first. A few days later, he met another teenage freedom activist, 18-year-old Cody Kuntz, at a freedom rally specifically for children. They were two of the four kid speakers. Evan continued to go to freedom rallies in different Saskatchewan towns in early May. Then, on May 11, Evan, Cody, and a third boy took part in two protest actions that got them into trouble with police.<\/p>\n Spurred on by students at Saskatoon\u2019s Tommy Douglas Collegiate, to whom Evan and Cody were talking about COVID-19 management, the boys took an experimental trip inside to see how teachers would react to them not wearing masks. Both Evan and Cody told LifeSiteNews that they were there for less than 4 minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cAll we did on that day [at Tommy Douglas] was to go speak to some kids outside and walk through the school,\u201d Cody Kuntz told LifeSiteNews via email. \u201cWe were going to talk to some kids inside as well, which we never did because there were little to no kids inside. We were in there for about three minutes and 15 seconds. The principal, I believe it was, came running after my car taking pictures of my license plate.\u201d<\/p>\n The boys next went across town to Pope John Paul II elementary school, where they stood across the street with signs encouraging drivers to \u201cHonk for Freedom\u201d and children \u2014 who under Saskatchewan\u2019s \u201cmature minor\u201d COVID-19 vaccination provisions can choose to be inoculated without their parents\u2019 consent \u2014 to \u201cJust Say No.\u201d A third sign asked, \u201cUnmask the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe police came and spoke to us and issued us a verbal warning telling us to not do it again, otherwise we could be charged and ticketed,\u201d Cody told LifeSiteNews.<\/p>\n Evan identified one of the officers as Constable Amy; she was to be one of the officers who would arrest him.<\/p>\n \u201cWe then went back-and-forth with the police asking questions and having a conversation with them,\u201d Cody continued. \u201cThe police then left and one officer sat a few hundred feet down in a patrol car and watched us. We were never asked to leave because we were not breaking the law.\u201d<\/p>\n Cody confirmed that in less than a week and a half, Evan got arrested and that there was a warrant out for his own arrest. He turned himself in and was arrested on May 21.<\/p>\n \u201cI have the same charges as him: three counts of mischief over $5,000 and one count of disturbing the peace by shouting,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Evan says that he was told later that three elementary schools were put into lockdown because of their protests; LifeSiteNews has not been able to establish that any schools were locked down.<\/p>\n One of the conditions for Evan\u2019s release was that he not communicate with his friend Cody, \u201cdirectly or indirectly\u201d, a point Evan is quick to underscore, because attending the same rallies as Cody afterwards \u2014 they had stood back-to-back without speaking to each other, Evan said \u2014 led to his second arrest on May 28.<\/p>\n \u201cThat also happened at school,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI went outside for my afternoon break. I saw a Resource [police assigned to schools] car and a Resource officer at the side of it. They were laughing, and I was laughing back because I was [joking] that they were probably there for me. Then I saw Constable Amy\u2019s car, and there were two cops in it.\u201d<\/p>\n Evan told LifeSiteNews that Constable Amy approached and told him that he was under arrest again. This was for allegedly violating his conditions. Evan is highly indignant about this, saying that he did not violate his conditions, and that if he had, he was supposed to pay a fine of $500, not be arrested. And this time, his arrest was rather more public, as he was led in front of the school to the waiting car and, Evan said, thrown against it.<\/p>\n \u201cThey treated me like an animal,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n Evan was taken to the police station where, he says, the officer in charge of the School Resource Unit told him that his arrest had taken priority over the complaint of four kids who alleged that they had been sexually assaulted in a high school.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were prioritizing someone who was at school trying to get their education, just to harass \u2014 I think \u2014 just because they had a little bit of evidence of Cody and me being around each other,\u201d Evan said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhich I guess is what they arrested me for. Which is false,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s an illegal arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n Evan was kept in a cell overnight and appeared the next morning before a judge who waived the $500 fine, seemed surprised Evan was even there before him, and sent him away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n