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’s pug to do the Nazi salute.
Meechan’s trial was delayed for the umpteenth time on Friday, to March 20.
Tomorrow my dudes. If this trial gets delayed again I’m launching myself into space.
— Count Dankula???????????????????????????? (@CountDankulaTV) January 4, 2018
Well, don’t I regret this tweet.@elonmusk I need a favour. https://t.co/Xiam1JPnzB
— Count Dankula???????????????????????????? (@CountDankulaTV) January 5, 2018
The 30-year-old YouTube entertainer was charged with committing a hate crime after he recorded his girlfriend’s pug, Buddha, responding to statements like “gas the Jews” and “sieg heil” by raising its paw.
Tomorrow is the trial of a Scottish youtuber @CountDankulaTV. 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 & uploaded it.
MP for his constituency here: https://t.co/Wnoefds5yh pic.twitter.com/shYqzAKPqi
— Black Pigeon Speaks (@navyhato) January 4, 2018
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 “most horrible phrases [he] could think of.”
Meechan made the same argument in court.
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