Bubba Pollock is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of criminal harassment against a member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, after he taunted her with photos he took of her sleeping father in a hospital room.
Peter Smith
Canadian Anti-Hate Network
Source: Telegram
$10 a flag, $500 for each fire alarm pulled.
That is what Bubba Pollock was shown offering a group of people to steal pride flags and pull fire alarms inside libraries during children’s book reading events featuring drag queens.
Some of the videos appear to have been recorded by Pollock himself.
“Drag story time, you think you’re coming? I’m waiting,” Pollock says into the camera. Turning to talk to several men sitting on the concrete, he talks about the “deal” he has made with them.
The men appear to be unhoused and one of the men is laying clothing over a bike rack.
“500 bucks every drag story time you pull that fucking fire alarm and you ain’t having no more shit f*****s,” Pollock adds.
He then gives a shout-out to “Mcleafin,” the founder of White Lives Matter Canada. Beyond his first name, Spencer, Mcleafin’s identity is not currently known to the public. He then yells at another person sitting on the sidewalk they “should be more entrepreneur [sic].”
In a second video that appears to be taken on the same night as the first, Pollock records himself approaching several individuals on the street, trying to solicit people to help him steal Pride flags.
“You guys looking to make some money?” He asks a small group of men standing on a street. “I’m sure you’ve heard of gay Pride and everything going on. We’re stealing some Pride flags and paying people 10 bucks a flag. We’re just going around, we let you out of the car, you run out, you fucking take that mother fucker.”
After being turned down by the first group, Pollock approaches another man who collects his things and walks away from Pollock.
Later in the recording, Pollock comes across the men sitting by the bike rack from the first video. During this interaction, Pollock gives the men a phone number to reach him. The apparent custom phone number includes digits which spell out a reference to stealing from Jewish people.
The date the videos were recorded is not known. In 2023, Pollock attended and organized a series of protests outside of libraries that were holding childrens’ drag story readings.
This included Pollock bragging online about organizing “60 patriots” to oppose a family-friendly drag story reading. He even offered to donate $1,000 to a local food bank if Wortley Pride would cancel the event.
Many drag events intended for adults take place in age-restricted venues and do feature sexualized performances and themes. Family-friendly drag events feature performers in colourful costumes and high-energy performances that are suitable for children.
Media reported that 15 people showed up to counter the protest.
Posted on the encrypted social media application Telegram, the footage was shared by Nationalist 13, a neo-Nazi organization primarily based out of Hamilton, Ontario. The channel, titled "’Bubba’ Christopher Michael Pollock EXPOSED,” contains multiple messages, images, footage, and news stories all from or related to Pollock.
The Telegram channel was created in January 2024, but on September 25, new allegations were added. In these posts, a member purporting to be from Nationalist 13 claims that Pollock paid an individual to infiltrate their group.
Images posted to the same channel also show Pollock leaving court with a man that posts allege to be the infiltrator.
The channel describes Pollock as a “parasitic stain on the [white nationalist] community. The information appears to have been put out by other members of the far-right. Likewise, some of Pollock’s actions appear to have been intended to damage other branches of the same movement.
Forwarded messages from a Telegram account using the same image and screen name as Pollock—the name of his dogs Schilling and Zola—state that the only thing that would make the “win” better is a “crack head on video pulling [a] fire alarm” wearing a t-shirt for the Canadian Nationalist Patriots (CNP). The Canadian Nationalist Party was a registered federal political party that ran on a platform of forming an “ethnostate” in Canada. It was taken over by long-time white nationalist Gus Stefanis who rebranded to the Canadian Nationalist Patriots after receiving less than 60 votes in the 2021 federal election.
“I'll get last laugh with him [sic],” the account wrote. “Drag down CNP and walk into sunset.”
Another white nationalist organization, the Toronto Fitness Club, released a statement about Pollock claiming he causes “chaos within the Canadian pro-White, and National Socialist community” and had “threatened women in the community with violence.”
These claims could not be independently verified.
Bubba Pollock declined to comment on the contents of this article.
After the protest against Wortley Pride failed to garner the 60 promised patriots, Brit Leroux, a member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, called Pollock out online. He responded with a picture of himself standing in the hospital room of Leroux’s father. Pollock is grinning widely, as the elderly man sleeps in the background, flowers laying at his side.
Leroux and her partner were married outside of the palliative care building that Pollock would later visit. The event was held there so her father could attend. She believes this is how Pollock was able to find the hospital.
A note allegedly left with the flowers raises more questions as pictures show it reading, “All the best to you, sir. Ryan Immel and Bubba Pollock (friends of Britt).”
Both names appear to be written in the same handwriting.
He pled guilty to criminal harassment for the incident. His sentencing is scheduled for early October 2024.
Pollock was acquitted of another harassment charge in September related to a different protest.
Pollock is also pictured at a rally for the protest group White Lives Matter. Members typically wear face coverings and dress in all black for these events. Pollock is pictured wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt.
The organizer of WLM in Toronto, a man who goes by the online pseudonym Mcleafin, and whose first name is Spencer, would not confirm if Pollock is or was a member of WLM for a previous article.
“He attended one rally. That is all I have to say on the matter,” Spencer said when reached for comment in June 2023.
A rally of White Lives Matter Toronto. Bubba Pollock is standing in the centre wearing a shirt reading "White Lives Matter." To his right is Tomas Liko and to his left is Andrew Benson. Source: Telegram
Besides attending the recent Pride event in Wortley, Pollock has appeared at several protests outside drag story time and Pride-related events. Witnesses speaking to CAHN allege that he was being aggressive and confronting parents and their children attempting to enter by shouting “groomer” and “pedophile.”
One individual who confronted Pollock online provided screenshots showing Pollock listing the names of her family members, attempting to contact them, and trying to add their mother as a friend on social media.
Pollock was also arrested by London police in 2018, after being charged with two counts of obtaining sexual service for consideration, sexual assault, and publishing an intimate image online without consent.
A previous version of this article identified the CNP as releasing a statement about Bubba Pollock when it was the Toronto Fitness Club. We apologize for this error.
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