I finished scraping most of Csaba Vizi's Facebook uploads. He's the Romanian immigrant trucker who vowed to be the last one to leave the convoy
who was arrested and viciously beaten by the police this weekend. I can't really think of anything else to say right now that wouldn't be a nuclear-grade fedpost, so I'll let the videos and photos do the talking for me, and take my own advice and go rewatch that clip of the purring raven to calm down.
Reposting the bird's eye clip of the arrest for convenience and context.
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I already archived the entirety of his final Facebook stream
HERE, and below is just his arrest and the immediate aftermath I clipped.
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@naffatune found a Tweet Vizi made while seeking an emergency room that makes a jovial comment of his from the night before darkly ironic. Fingers crossed he gets glory, when all is said and done.
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His profile is a goldmine and has more stuff than I can embed without this getting unmanageable, so I'll pick some of the highlights and the rest will be attachments. Some of it's "slice of life" from the front line of the Convoy, some of its him dealing with the cops, and there's a scattering of interviews he ended up doing with visitors, ranging from colorful and cute to sad.
Vizi gets a warm welcome when he moves up to the front of the line to relieve another trucker who's held that spot for 21 days.
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The truckers team up to protect Vizi when the cops come knocking and look like they're thinking about arresting him.
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"There's so much love here."
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A father who's been coming to the protests to drum in support of the truckers breaks down in tears -- his daughter's in the hospital, and Trudeau's mandates have kept him away from her for 2 years. The animal painted on his drum is a bear, I believe -- a lot of North American tribes associate Bear with healing, as well as the protective warrior who wins all fights except the last, in which he dies. Between that, the wearing blanket, and the old-fashioned high-crowned felt hat (still popular in a lot of Native American circles), I'm guessing he might have some First Nations ancestry.
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(The girl in the background is a random streamer whose phone battery started to die, he let her take shelter in his truck for a bit, recharge it, and get some messages out to friends.)