Tell Justin Trudeau to condemn attack on pro-life woman. Sign the petition here. TORONTO, October 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — The man captured on video roundhouse-kicking a pro-life woman has been identified, and he’s lost his contract at a Toronto hair salon as a result. A screengrab from the video showing the attacker, Jordan Hunt, kicking Marie-Claire Bissonnette in the shoulder, knocking her phone from her hand, Toronto, Sept. 30, 2018. As discovered by many internet sleuths, the man in the video taken at Sunday’s Life Chain event is Jordan Hunt, employed at Noble Studio 101 at the time of the violent incident at Sunday’s Life Chain. The shocking 46-second clip by Marie-Claire Bissonnette, youth coordinator with Campaign Life Coalition, went viral after it was published on LifeSiteNews Tuesday, reaching number 8 on YouTube on Wednesday, with over 500,000 views as of publication, and sparking widespread discussion on social media. Noble Studio 101 posted a statement on Instagram Wednesday that “it has been brought to our attention that Jordan Hunt has been caught on camera assaulting an innocent bystander at a pro-life rally. We don’t condone his actions and he has been let go.” A representative of the hair salon confirmed this when contacted by LifeSiteNews. “We’re four strong women here,” she said. “We don’t condone any kind of violence… Everybody has their own opinion and different ways of thinking, but violence is not the answer. He won’t be stepping his foot through the door again.” Bissonnette approached Hunt while filming with her phone after he scribbled on Life Chain signs and on jackets of pro-life participants with a marker, she related in her LifeSiteNews account. Marie-Claire Bissonnette, Campaign Life Coalition's youth coordinator After a brief discussion, he suddenly roundhouse kicked her with lightning speed, knocking the phone out of her hand. He also tore a Campaign Life ribbon off her jacket before running off, Bissonnette related. Bissonnette has filed a report with the Toronto Police, but according to police spokesperson Katrina Arrogante, the details of the incident are “on file and the investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been made at this time.” URGENT: Sign the petition telling Canada's political leaders to condemn this violent attack on a prolife woman. Click here. She added: “This is an ongoing investigation and any leads regarding the alleged suspect is part of that.” Hunt’s profile has been removed from the Noble Studio 101’s website, but according to a screenshot, he is writing a book on “The Hippy Swamp Witch, a guide to natural living,” and developing his own product line. He was formerly employed at Coupe Bizarre on Queen Street West. Hunt’s Instragram account had been shut down Wednesday night. Bissonnette says she intends to press charges, and is urging people to pray for Hunt. RELATED:<doc-sep>Pro-life demonstrators held an annual "Life Chain" event across Canada on Sept. 30, but one of the peaceful protesters ended up facing violence. Marie-Claire Bissonnette spoke to a man who she said had been defacing the participants’ signs and clothes, including scribbling on the back of a 10-year-old girl, and after she talked for a few seconds, the man roundhouse kicked her in the shoulder. He claimed to be targeting the phone she was using to record him and he soon fled the scene, according to an article she wrote for LifeSiteNews, a pro-life publication. Her phone survived the encounter and so she has shared the video online. In it, she confronts him about destroying private property by vandalizing the protesters’ signs and clothes, which he shrugs off before arguing that abortion should be legal to help rape victims. Then, he kicks her. "[The man] forcefully roundhouse-kicked me in the shoulder, which sent my phone flying and I yelled for someone to call the police. In defence of his violence he claimed he’d meant to kick my phone, and then, as a fellow Life Chain participant dialed 9-1-1, he yanked off the ribbon I’d been wearing on my chest and ran away, heading east," Bissonnette wrote. She said the Canadian police were initially not helpful. "I approached them and told them I was just assaulted and explained the situation," she wrote. "I showed them the video. They replied, ‘What do you want us to do about it?’" She said their indifference and comment that it wasn't a "serious case of assault" kept her from filing a complaint. She had better luck later with other officers, and the police are now looking for the attacker. "Two hours later, I started to feel pain in my shoulder where I’d been kicked and I contacted the police and filed a report with a different set of officers who were significantly more helpful, even offering a trauma support group after they visited my house and saw me still shaking with eyes red from crying. The police are still looking for my attacker and he has yet to be identified," she wrote. Bissonette pointed out that violence directed at pro-lifers is commonplace, and this is not the first time she’s been the victim: I’ve participated in many public pro-life activities throughout my life. This isn’t the first time I’ve been attacked. Rocks have been thrown at me. I’ve been spat upon multiple times and pushed. Men have aggressively asked how I would like it if they raped me and forced me to have an abortion. There is a media-driven narrative that pro-life activists are violent and a danger to women. This is a bald-faced lie. The only violence or aggression I’ve witnessed in my many years in the pro-life movement comes entirely from pro-abortion activists, and yet it’s rarely, if ever, reported. Bissonnette concluded the article by expressing her sympathy for sexual assault victims and her desire to debate the abortion issue in good faith. "It is the mark of a truly liberal society that two people with diametrically opposed views on the most important of issues concerning life, death and fundamental rights can peacefully stand beside one another expressing their respective opinions in public," she wrote.<doc-sep>Jordan Hunt, the 26-year-old man accused of kicking a pro-life woman on Sunday, has been arrested. Toronto police announced Saturday that not only was he charged in that case, but he was also accused in a separate incident. Hunt approached people protesting abortions, and began scribbling on their signs and clothing, police says. One of the protesters confronted him, and he allegedly kicked her in the shoulder, police said. In this account, it knocked the phone from her hand. He allegedly then ripped off a ribbon from her, and ran away. Police said he surrendered to cops on Saturday. Officials didn’t name the alleged victim, but Marie-Claire Bissonnette said that was her. She claimed an unknown man crashed a pro-life demonstration, defaced two signs with markets, and scribbled on several participants. As seen on video, a woman confronts him. He brings up a hypothetical situation in which a 16-year-old girl gets pregnant by rape, and they argue over whether it’s justified for her to get an abortion. She says no, at which point, the man winds up, and apparently kicks her. “I meant to kick her phone,” he says. Hunt is charged in this case with eight counts of assault and seven counts of mischief under $5,000 for this allegation, cops said. This isn’t the only claim he faces. Police said they responded to a call for an assault back on August 2 at about noon. It was claimed that a man on a bicycle approached a group of anti-abortion protesters. He allegedly tried to grab one of their signs, and then he pushed a woman into a pole, police said. This attacker fled the scene. Hunt has been charged in this incident: one count of assault. Police said he attended a court appearance Saturday morning. It’s unclear if he has an attorney in this matter. [Image via Marie-Claire Bissonnette] Have a tip we should know? [email protected]<doc-sep>
Pro-Choice Man Roundhouse Kicks Pro-Life Activist in Video; Compares Himself to MLK, Gandhi Email Print Img No-img Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment A video of a pro-choice male hairdresser roundhouse kicking a pro-life activist in Toronto during a demonstration has gone viral online. The incident occurred on Sept. 30 at Campaign Life Coalition's demonstration in the Canadian city, Global News reported. Pro-life leader Marie-Claire Bissonnette explained that she and about 76 other pro-life protesters were taking part at an event called Life Chain. "This guy comes up and I guess he sees what's going on, and so he took out three markers and he drew on two of our signs, and so I shouted, 'Protect your signs,'" said Bissonnette. "I guess that gave him the idea to start scribbling on people's backs, so he scribbled on five people's backs." Bissonnette said that she started recording the man on the phone, and the two started arguing about a hypothetical situation regarding whether a raped teen should have an abortion. The man is then seen delivering a roundhouse-kick to Bissonnette in the shoulder, which knocked her phone to the ground. "I did not see it coming. I didn't anticipate any violence," Bissonnette said. "As soon as he kicked me, the only thing I could think of was to get the police, make sure someone calls the police." Bissonnette said that she intends on filing a complaint, but alleged that police seem reluctant to help. "I told them what happened and showed them the video and they said, 'What do you want us to do about it?'" the activist said. "Just the way they phrased things kind of leaned toward encouraging me not to press charges." The Human Defense Initiative identified the man as Jordan Hunt, a hairdresser in Toronto. Until Wednesday he was a sub-contractor at a local hair studio. The shop has since said that after finding out what happened, it will no longer employ him. Noble Studio 101 explained in a statement: "It has been brought to our attention that Jordan Hunt has been caught on camera assaulting an innocent bystander at a pro-life rally." "We don't condone his actions and he has been let go. We believe that everyone has a right to an opinion and the right to voice their opinion without fear of physical violence," it added. The Human Defense Initiative's website posted another video of Hunt from this past summer, where he again assaulted a pro-life activist, this time a Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform intern. Pro-life speaker Alissa Golob meanwhile posted a screenshot of an online conversation she had with Hunt, sharing it on her Facebook page on Thursday. In it, Hunt explains that he did not mean to kick Bissonnette, but only to kick the phone out of her hand. "But you haters don't care about the truth," he accused. "I will NOT apologize for defending women's right to choose. Even to a woman," he declared. "Heroes were always attacked in their day for defending the rights of others. MLK, Gandhi, Susan B. Anthony," he listed out. "I will NOT back down for defending women's rights." The video of the roundhouse kick can be seen below: