Overview

Toronto Abortion Activist Assault refers to an incident in which pro-choice activist Jordan Hunt was allegedly filmed assaulting pro-life activist Marie-Claire Bissonnette with a roundhouse kick at a protest in Toronto, Canada in late September 2018. Video of the incident was wildly circulated online, leading to Hunt being nicknamed "Cuck Norris" within various internet communities.

Background

On September 30th, 2018, Bissonnette filmed Hunt on the sidewalk near the "Life Chain" protest in Toronto, Canada, where she claims he kicked her after engaging in an argument about abortion rights. On October 2nd, the LifeSiteNews YouTube channel uploaded Bissonnette's footage of the incident (shown below). Within 48 hours, the video accumualted more than 687,000 views. The same day, Bissonnette posted her account of the altercation on the pro-life news site Life Site News^[1] in an article titled "I’m a pro-life woman. This man just roundhouse-kicked me in public for my beliefs."

Developments

Online Reaction

On October 3rd, the Noble Studio 101 hair studio Instagram^[2] page posted an announcement that Hunt's employment had been terminated (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 660 likes.

That day, an unverified Twitter^[4] account claiming to be Hunt posted the tweet "I will NOT apologize for defending women’s right to choose. Even to a woman. #TheResistance" (shown below). On October 4th, Redditor ChesterHiggenbothum submitted an article about the incident to /r/PublicFreakout,^[3] where it received more than 3,400 points (93% upvoted) and 900 comments within five hours. That day, the news site CTV News^[5] reported that Toronto police were investigating the incident.

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