{"id":342691,"date":"2018-01-07T00:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T23:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prosecutors-accuse-youtube-comedian-count-dankula-of-colluding-with-pug-to-gas-football-stadiums\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T00:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T23:19:47","slug":"prosecutors-accuse-youtube-comedian-count-dankula-of-colluding-with-pug-to-gas-football-stadiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prosecutors-accuse-youtube-comedian-count-dankula-of-colluding-with-pug-to-gas-football-stadiums\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Accuse YouTube Comedian \u2018Count Dankula\u2019 of Colluding With Pug to Gas Football Stadiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Markus Meechan, the popular YouTube comedian better known as Count Dankula, faces hate crime charges for publishing a video in which he taught his girlfriend\u2019s pug to do the Nazi salute.<\/p>\n<p>Meechan\u2019s trial was delayed for the umpteenth time on Friday, to March 20.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tomorrow my dudes. If this trial gets delayed again I&#8217;m launching myself into space.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Count Dankula???????????????????????????? (@CountDankulaTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountDankulaTV\/status\/948914411510657025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Well, don&#8217;t I regret this tweet.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> I need a favour. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xiam1JPnzB\">https:\/\/t.co\/Xiam1JPnzB<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Count Dankula???????????????????????????? (@CountDankulaTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountDankulaTV\/status\/949357811741360128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 30-year-old\u00a0YouTube\u00a0entertainer was charged with committing a hate crime after he recorded his girlfriend\u2019s pug, Buddha, responding to statements like \u201cgas the Jews\u201d and \u201csieg heil\u201d by raising its paw.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tomorrow is the trial of a Scottish youtuber <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountDankulaTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CountDankulaTV<\/a>. The charge? Committing a Hate Crime,What did he do? Taught his Dog to do a Nazi Salute as a joke in order to piss off his girlfriend &amp; uploaded it.<\/p>\n<p>MP for his constituency here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wnoefds5yh\">https:\/\/t.co\/Wnoefds5yh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shYqzAKPqi\">pic.twitter.com\/shYqzAKPqi<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Black Pigeon Speaks (@navyhato) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/navyhato\/status\/948974734967844864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meechan, has made it repeatedly clear in his YouTube videos and in personal conversations with me that he does not have Nazi sympathies, and denies being a racist. He told me that the phrases he used in the joke video were simply the \u201cmost horrible phrases [he] could think of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meechan made the same argument in court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/prosecutors-accuse-youtube-comedian-count-dankula-of-colluding-with-pug-to-gas-football-stadiums\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markus Meechan, the popular YouTube comedian better known as Count Dankula, faces hate crime charges for publishing a video in which he taught his girlfriend\u2019s pug to do the Nazi salute. Meechan\u2019s trial was delayed for the umpteenth time on Friday, to March 20. Tomorrow my dudes. If this trial gets delayed again I&#8217;m launching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}