- an anonymous complaint came in during Aug '21 from a citizen that an unrelated cop was chumming around with Jeremy MacKenzie
- the York police chief, not knowing who MacKenzie was, dedicated 6O days!!! of "White Nationalist expert" non-uniformed officers unit resources, at least two officers doing intel, Pearson and another Greek guy
- they gathered their intel for two months expertly...by watching Raging Dissident's videos and following their Telegram channels
- Jeremy wasn't even in their jurisdiction at the time (living in Saskatchewan, originally from Nova Scotia), nor had he committed any crimes/beem charged
- through the Telegram channels, they found two potential Diagolon "cells" in the York Region unhappy with COVID restrictions, talking about being gun enthusiasts and arranging meetups to shoot
- the officers found a picture of Schill and MacKenzie together at some point, no connection to MacKenzie actually participating in any firearm meet-ups in York Region AFAICT
- officer declares himself " White Nationalism expert"
- labels Diagolon and the York cells as antilockdown, angry, antigovernment, militia-like
- uses the fact that MacKenzie held up Devon Stack's The Day of the Rope fictional novel on stream as NeoNazi ties
- references Stack's title itself refers to a chapter in The Turner Diaries fictional book written by another alleged NeoNazi about a race civil war where minorities are hung
- lots of pearlclutching that the York Dag cells like guns, shoot guns in the woods, might do training beyond shooting static paper targets and lots of garment rending over the ownership of body armour
- during the 60 day surveillance op, a member of the Telegram using his real name Gary Schill, gets arrested for an unrelated DV incident with his spouse. She apparently scratches his face and jumps on his back first, he chokes her to the point of incontinence in response.
- the York DV unit charges them both with assault, though both later are dismissed
- the York extremist unit uses the DV pretense to raid Schill's home. They seize his electronic devices and search his garage where they find loose shell cartridges and a setup to reload ammo.