They lost any sympathy when they tried to invoke Chinese laws while in the UK. If they had tried to ask him to stop filming because it might get them into trouble back home, I'm fairly sure he would have reacted in a more favourable manner.

Under English Common Law, there is no expectation of privacy in a public space. Mainland Chinese have a very poor reputation across Asia.

The piano was actually donated by Elton John.

I personally think the whole "don't touch her!" thing was an attempt to draw attention from the public in the hopes that they would turn against Brendan, to try and shame him in to backing down or running away, but it didn't work. And I think there are plenty of police officers that would have reacted very differently to the female officer you see. I think he was just unlucky as to which officers arrived.

Classic example there of the UK cop just wanted HIM to back down and take the blame because it’s generally easier than having to call out the Chinese people for overreacting.

I watched live on the day. It escalated very quick and is still going on. He plays boogie woogie tunes mainly on the piano donated by Elton John. Brendan has given away the copyright to that video and he asked for it to be shared should it be taken down. It is crazy right now.

One of the women is being sued in China for violating the image rights of others. Ya can’t make it up.

The Shouty guy and the lady in the read dress is part of the Communist China's United Front Work Department in Britain even though they are British Citizen(Trojan Horse). This United Front is a high level and well funded department that works as a operative for Communist China's interest overseas. This group operates out of Chinese embassy or consulate offices and is responsible for infiltration into host country's politics, spying on overseas dissidents which includes intimidation, running of Confucius Institution in colleges, Universities in the Western Democracy countries to influence young students and among many others running "Honey Trap" of people holding important offices in Western countries. These people also organize functions for local politicians to meet visiting CCP's officials and Embassy staffs. Everyone in the free world should be aware of United Front and group like OCAO Overseas Chinese Affairs Office etc.

For people that don't want to be filmed they sure do make a good effort of getting filmed

They aren't just regular Chinese tourists, it goes deep. Look them up. Adalina Zhang, Newton Leng, and Liu Mengying.

Before Brendan started his livestream he was filming another video for youtube and the chinese lady in the red dress and one of the chinese guys actually came up to him while he was playing. The chinese guy also sat at the piano and played some music himself, all very friendly with no problems. Later during the livestream some more senior members of their party arrived and thats what you are looking at here

I am a Chinese who was born in China and grew up in Hong Kong. Technically it's not a communist flag, but the communist party in China came up with this flag before China became China today, in China only has one party and one party rules all. And all Chinese media companies have a department that regulates their speech. What do they publish for any TV station. Therefore, Brendan kavana was right that they are communist, and the term communist in mainland China is a compliment. It's a positive thing. That's how funny and contradictory of their reaction is.😂

Don't try applying your home laws in a foreign country. That's impolite at best. At worst, you're on a trip to hospital.

I am from Colorado and have been watching Dr. K for several years. He is a great talent in England.

If we are confused by the reaction of the shouting man, it is because we do not understand the character or culture of some of the people in mainland China. There have been many reactions on YT from the Chinese community defending Brendan and they have tried to help us understand a bit more of what went on. Apparently the shouting was a way to stop the discussion and get the upper hand, regardless of whether what was being said made any sense or had anything to do with anything. It was just an aggressive move that apparently people from mainland China do in arguments to assert their authority. This has been shared by youtubers from Hong Kong and Taiwan who were not surprised by the way the situation went down, since I assume they have had some experience dealing with those types of people.

During a disagreement, when one person says "this is the end of the conversation" it means they know that they are in the wrong at least 90% of the time.

Watch Brendan's back catalogue - he is a wonderful pianist and has a brilliant way of interacting with members of the public, often dancers or singers who join in the fun as they pass through the station.

They didn't want to be filmed and now they're being shown all over the world.😊

I’ve been following his channel for years and until now he’s never done anything political he specializes in public piano and playing a style called boogie Woogie. And he’s been playing at the same public piano forever with no incidents and now all of a sudden these Chinese communists make an issue of it.

This is hilarious. Dr K ..... I've been watching him for years. I never imagined this could happen to this UK boogie woogie wonder 😆

Brendan has been producing live streams at his site for many years. Congratulations to the CCP for converting a cheerful entertaining performer into a global activist for freedom. If you have not subscribed to Brendan before please do so now and join his millions of happy viewers.

Your video starts well into the encounter. It started when the Chinese came to Brendan, shook his hand, motioned for the other Chinese to join them, danced with Brendan, as one played the piano for Brendan, then, when the Communist handler shows up,(in the background), suddenly the friendly Chinese become hostile..

Elton John donated the pianoto the space. They were trying to make a TV shoot for the Chinese New Year show. Even the Chinese people are dissing their people here.

I’ve watched a few of these videos, including the original one in full and I think as Brendan calls him, the shouty guy, starts shouting because he knows he’s not getting anywhere so he starts arguing to try and look stronger.

The shouting guy is Newton Leng. He lives and works in London and is well-aware of the laws that, like the USA, you have no expectation of privacy in a public space, and can be filmed without your permission. The girl that initially tried to get Brendan to stop filming, is being sued in China for using someone else's image rights without permission. Besides being a teacher and consultant with strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Mr. Shouty (Leng) is also something of a capitalist - he's now selling T-shirts with "Don't touch her!" printed on them, available in sizes S to 2XL. Also, the video that they're desperately trying to get taken down is still there and now has over 9.3M views. I've also heard reports that the CCP is trying to distance themselves from these "Little Pinks" (unpaid CCP activists) to avoid bad publicity (umm, I think it's a bit late for that!). Finally, the main video doesn't show an earlier interaction with these Little Pinks, where they were happy to be meeting Dr. K. and were dancing and playing the piano. (That video is on Brendan's channel.) It seems to me that the Little Pinks were looking for their 15 minutes of fame, which they got. Unfortunately, that fame is also, apparently, coming with vitriol and death threats from around the world.

It was like I extend my goodwill to welcome a stranger to my home. And this stranger has absolute rights to set rules in my house telling me what to do in my own home? Bizarre.

If one does not wish to be on camera then don't bloody stand in front of it, common sense.

The chinese flag. Its my understanding the red represents the revolution. The big gold star represents the CCP communist party. And the four smaller stars represent the Chinese people. So i would think it can be termed as a " communist flag"

The public piano in the railway station was actually provided by Sir Elton John. Legally in the UK with certain exceptions your are able to video in a public space Based on my understanding of British law as an Australian. Worth noting Brendan has played the piano with Chinese tourists on a number of occasions with much enjoyment and respect.

The woman and the guy on camera were actually laughing and joking with him. It was their "Handler" that kicked off. She already shook his hand, and her friend had a go on the piano.

if that incident had been in newcastle, that annoying shouter would be in hospital right now. His crappy attitude would have gotten a fast response.....

The reason the mouthpiece said 'you are not the same age' and kept saying 'do not touch her' was so he could edit the clip later and falsely implicate Dr K for inappropriate behaviour. It was premeditated.

Where i'm from, if a person yelled at you like that,you would be picking your teeth up off the ground.

There is another video before this, when the Lady in Red approached Brendan, and they chatted away. She then said one of the group played piano, so Brendan moved to the side to let the Chinese man play the piano. So the Chinese man played some tunes. It was all very cordial. THEN, the vocal man... appeared and it all kicked off. Funnily enough, I think that may actually be one of the pianos Elton John gifted as a free piano, 😂 for the public to play, in Railway Stations, shopping malls, airports etc... IN PUBLIC.

The woman cop seems to have gotten away with her attitude so far. Hopefully karma will catch up with her soon.

I’ve watched this several times and it infuriates me every time!

I watched a follow-up video this morning and Anti-CCP Chinese people brought him Winnie the Pooh teddies and a picture as they are banned in China.

It turned out that there was a notorious Chinese Communist spy present and when she turned up the anti-boggiewoogie sh!t hit the fan.

I think there was some initial confusion which wasn't shown in this clip where the person filming had arranged for some Japanese people to be in the video and the group of Chinese people were initially mistaken for the Japanese group. That aside it just shows how useless and ill informed some of our police are, there were also 2 male officers which seemed to de-escalate the situation but the female officer really didn't have a clue.

Never tell an Englishman what he can and can't do in his own country as Brendan said if he was in China and a similar situation he would respect China laws but not in London lol

It was at St. Pancras and not at King's Cross, which is adjacent. Only the laws of the UK apply in this case.

It was in St Pancras, not King's Cross, for an accurate title.

Just a point of clarification. It's the British Transport Police not tbe local police who are responsible for law & order at railway stations and the entire rail network, including London Underground and DLR. BTP is funded by Network Rail, the train operating companies and Transport for London.

Sometimes I wonder who’s country this is people come here and take advantage of our good nature = we must start standing up for our great country

And the policewoman didn’t know the law.

You must watch the original live stream, it is a bit long, but never boring! A comedy of errors by everyone, with excellent camera work and audio recording, especially considering it was only a phone live streaming. Full marks to the camera lady :). And always remember when watching that Dr K. is an entertainer, always aware of his camera,and as he said half way through, "this is making excellent TV"!

I was watching the live stream at the time and his content is full of drama. It's well worth a subscribe. His friend is Terry Miles who also has his own piano playing channel with public piano videos. Both channels are very entertaining.

I have seen the video, and I like hearing what other people's reactions to it. There are more recordings about this situation on KZfaq. The guy just wanted to play the piano and that's it. I live in Toronto Canada, and the public transport includes a subway. The stations provide areas for people to play their music. Mostly guitars. I don't understand what the issue is. Also the Chinese Communist Party decided to ban Winnie The Pooh. They decided to ban a bear.

I was watching the live stream of this. I have watched his channel for some time now. He is normally not political. I think he just felt that someone was attempting to trample on his rights and became defensive. In my opinion they were looking by to start a fight. Earlier in the stream they had come up and the girl with the red jacket that looked like it covered a very short dress, white tights, and huge black shoes, was dancing to his music. And the shouting man even took a place at the piano for a bit. They went back to spectating and filming him. Then they approached. They were poised with an argument ready. They had the idea that could just call him racist and everyone would just be on their side. When that didn’t work they tried to use something that normally no one would dare to argue with, pedophilia. That is why he screamed “Don’t touch her? You are not the same age.” The problem was his translation to English, didn’t translate. A little background, the woman who stood in the back on the right side of the screen was discovered by MI6 to be a spy. By the time it had been discovered and she was outed, she had already infiltrated the UK government. It is my belief and I am not claiming it as fact as I cannot prove it, that they were sent by the Chinese government. That being said, that is not the fault of the average Chinese citizens. From other videos I have scene of people living there, the Chinese social media comments reflect and attitude that demonstrates that they see it as absurd as we see it. They are full of statements like, “she walked into his filming.” And “why did they stay if they didn’t want to be filmed?” I honestly do not think this would have been an issue if it had been just regular tourist. But no one who is born in a free country should ever just let someone trample on their rights. It’s a slippery slope and when they get some taken, it doesn’t take much to take them all.

Under Chinese law, dual nationality is not allowed

Great to see genuine reactions from across the pond. I was just as shocked as you. Lots of love from Scotland x

In short: The man has done nothing wrong under UK law. In long: The first law is ‘members of the public do NOT need a permit to film or photograph in a public space and police have no power to stop them, including when filming police personnel. The next thing that comes into play is ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’. In a public place ,like a park, u’d have a reasonably low expectation of privacy; whereas, in a private place, like ur house, u’d have a high expectation of privacy. (It is important to note, if u photograph from a ‘public place’ that captures a ‘private place’, this would be classed as invading privacy) In a busy train station surrounded by commuters and tourists I doubt u can have much expectation of privacy. Technically the train station is privately owned by national rail; however, all this means is that up to the point someone from National Rail tells him to stop filming, he is not committing a crime. (Some stations do have bylaws, but this does not apply here) After this, ‘intent’ and ‘decency’ would apply, which are huge factors in UK law. If you intentionally film something or someone to show them in an indecent manner, this is illegal. Thirdly, if the intent of the video is commercial, then u could be asked to no longer film someone; however, this in precedence this only applies to large ‘film-scale’ productions with multiple cameras, lights and mics. At the point in the livestream when the Chinese man repeatedly states ‘stop touching her’, the British man, in-fact touched the Chinese flag which they were holding. This is seen as disrespectful in China and Chinese citizens are required to protect the flag under Chinese law, which brings be only my next point. China has a set of laws which it requires Chinese citizens to follow when abroad. Unfortunately in many cases, as seen here with the privacy in photography laws, these clash with the countries laws. When in a country, you MUST follow the countries laws; if an American walked through central london with a shotgun they would be pinned to the ground, arrested, and charged; and them quoting the 2nd amendment wouldn’t stop that. The same applies here. At the end the police officer has not right under Uk law to ask the man to stop filming, and eventually the Chinese walk away, as the man had suggested, and the Police went about their day. Just shows how important it is to know the law as even law enforcement don’t always get it right immediately.

Love this guys stuff. I subscribe to Brendan’s channel

earlier prior to this, the woman in the elegant red dress was in the camera and he talked to her. was very very kind and fun. she danced, was net to a guy in a grey sweater. he even aseked the guy to play, he did. and complimented him. the shouting guy works for financial someting indistruy who had some ties to teh CCP, he alos has ties to the confucious institute, and if you se that lady in the grey way further bak in the background next to the whie guy, she is an actaul chinese spy

Brendan Kavanaugh's Livestream, which included this incident, is only 37 minutes long. There's an earlier Livestream, he posted, where Adelina Zhang dances, and a Chinese man played the piano.

And right after the video, an ad for Temu... what a world 😅

Interesting to get your perspective, thank you! By the way, the lady and her companion were initially friendly and they even played the piano and danced next to Brendan, so Brendan hadn't hogged the piano. It was as if they then planned to be disruptive after another person arrived on the scene, she had been named by the MSM a few months back as infiltrating the British Parliament. Anyhow here are two videos that add more info. See 'Piano Showdown: Brendan Kavanagh Takes On Communist China' and also 'Another Chinese Spy IDENTIFIED Following Piano Incident'

There is a video of Americans claiming the 5th amendment in England when asked by police to stay where they are as possible witnesses after an incident occurred at a venue they were at, claiming the police had no rights to detain them. Sounds similar!

The police are actually railway police and not metropolitan police

The piano was actually donated by Elton John and there is a plaque on the piano to that effect .

A good example of the politicised police not doing their job.

The Chinese man did play the piano because Brendon complemented him on his playing. Then the world went crazy

There are security cameras everywhere lol 😂 doesn't make sense to make a scene over a piano live stream lol

Brendan is to be commended for his restraint. I'd like to see fatboy try this somewhere like Liverpool or Glasgow 😂

Here in the UK we don't have freedom of speech like the US but we have a watered down version, The new hate speech laws have been used to silence the public in certain circumstances.

I feel a bit of M.C.Hammer - "U Can't Touch This" coming on.🤣

People have been more disappointed with the BTP police officer here. She should have de-escalated by simply telling the flag wavers that it's a public space and Brendan can film what he likes but no, instead she got into an unnecessary discussion about race, language etc etc. All irrelevant. Some days following this, the protagonists then took to Tiktok and edited and reposted the KZfaq stream to fit their own narrative. If you watch the KZfaq comments on this, most of the Chinese people that have reacted agree with Brendan's position so the flag wavers are fighting a losing battle. What a bunch of clowns.

If you watch the entire video, you will see that at first, they were playing and dancing with him then suddenly this incident happened. The video is much longer.

The video actually starts with everyone getting on well. One of the Chinese guys takes his coat off and plays the piano. It all changes when a middle aged Chinese woman turns up, she apparantely is some kind of Chinese Communist Party official. Weird.

NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY IN PUBLIC IN ENGLAND SHOUTY MAN NEWTON LENG

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I think the worst part of this video is the fact that the british police went after him

And also he was sharing himself. He didn’t start recording them until they approached him so that’s not an issue, and then they tried saying he was racist, which saying they were communist for waving communist flags is not being racist, but of course they drop the race card to shut down conversation as usual

I think that it's St. Pancras station (which is the other side of the road to King's Cross but joins on underground) where, as well as trains to the East Midlands and Sheffield (hooray - the ones that connect with my local trains) is also is the Eurostar terminus (high speed trains to and from the continent) and had a small fortune spent on it to bring it back to it's full Victorian splendor along with upmarket shops, bars, restaurants, and, yes, a piano. This was to stop The French laughing at us when they arrived in London but has probably been unsuccessful as firstly they will probably notice that we have just under 70 miles of high speed track whereas they have hundreds and, secondly, the Gare du Nord, at the Paris end is supposed to be a dump. Anyway, it's better than the original terminus which rather tastelessly had Eurostar trains terminating and starting at Waterloo!! King's Cross, I believe, is a nightmare of 1960's modernism, but I've hardly ever used it so it may also have been improved (and, possibly, even have it's own piano!!)

Hilarious. Let the music play...

There is a short video of them interacting before this. And she shook his hand. So the age thing had nothing to do with anything. And they were dancing and enjoying the music. Then suddenly it turned into this. They found out he had 2 million followers and didn't want to be involved anymore. Then using the race card for calling them Chinese. Which is what they are. What was he supposed to call them in this situation? I've neve heard of that being racist in my life

There are too many foreign nationals coming to the UK trying to impose their laws and way of life onto us. We are a very cosmopolitan nation and welcome all peoples from across the world but please respect our laws, culture and way of life. Your country, your rules but this is our country with our rules. If visitors or immigrants don't like it you are free to leave so please close the door on your way out.

Can I just say how beautiful the portrait behind you is 😊 loved the video too

In the UK you can film anyone in a public place

And it's a big loss of face to the Chinese government when this also went viral on the Chinese Internet and the majority of Chinese sided with the pianist, not to mention the government couldn't keep up with the virality in censoring it. Also, if you've watched the videos on his channel, he's played at the same piano countless times in the past and the police have been called on him occasionally but I think every time, they went over the rules of the place and determined that he wasn't breaking any rules so he clearly knows he's in the right. I'm not sure if he'd have the same confidence holding off the Chinese agitators if this was his first time playing at a particular location. And the police officer - he seems to address her by her first name which means she's probably a regular there.

They are Chinese ethnically. The Chinese girl in the red outfit claimed she was British, yet was waving a CCP flag and using CCP law in the UK to protect her claimed "image rights". None of it made sense. The female cop was wrong going by UK law. It was all over the place. This Chinese girl who's flag he touched, was previously approached Brendan and was shaking his hand and dancing with Brendan, whilst another Chinese guy was playing the piano. All whilst the camera was running. Then later a woman allegedly identified as a CCP spy who had been outed by Mi5 ( British Secret Service ) appeared in the background of the video. They were what is known as "Little Pinks" Go look it up.

Excellent analysis of an odd situation!

Great video! It's so funny! That's Little Pinks for you.

Does anyone else hear the lady shout 'Don't shoot him, don't shoot him!'? Just after the shouty man starts. Or is it just me?

Imagine if this happened in Texas. 😂😂

Alicia Keys has played on that piano, in that station. I wonder if their "Handler" would have screamed in her face.

DONT TOUCH HER. PLEASE DONT TOUCH HER!!!!!!AHHHHHH!

It was probably not his previous filming at all - they wanted to go on the piano (donated by Elton John) and film a piece showing some of them and put it on national Chinese TV for their new year, and seems they had their own contract with the TV company. Brendan correctly insisted he could film for his livestream broadcast, as he does when whosoever arrives to play after him (he likes to join in and always turns the song into a Boogie Woogie duet sadly).

He is a piano player who always winds up the authorities, even to the point of playing “The Pink Panther” theme when police walk by. On at least one occasion he was escorted from the station by police after arguing with a station official over playing a piano that had been moved to a “non-public” area. He was asked to stop but just carried on and berated the employee for basically being a jobsworth who couldn’t tell him what to do. He has obtained tens of thousands of new subscribers over the last week or so through his actions.

I have watched and been subscribed to Dr. K for over a year,he is an awesome person!

You can now purchase 'DON'T TOUCH HER' tee shirts. Brendan is back at the King's Cross Piano and normality has returned!

I think we have ‘freedom of expression’ as opposed to ‘freedom of speech’. A subtle difference - you just can’t be too disrespectful to our fellow citizens. This clip , clearly, doesn’t even come close !

For reference the uk has no privacy on the public areas END OF REGARDLESS TO copyrighted images etc

I watched the original video when it was first dropped and it was in insane and I’ve been following it ever since

4:11 this is the point they broke the law and it became a breach of the peace. If he had barked at a northerner like that he would have started swinging, just as he backed 9ff, in the north that would have been a direct threat and challenge. Whoever he barked at would probably have started swinging, and seeing that his mates seeing the odds would be right in... They did this in London, down south knowing it was more likely to become a political event... I'm guessing it was staged by the Chinese and the way the female Police officer handled it was absolutely unforgivable. They've done another video of the two dressed as police offices in an attempt to recover something from the utter contempt many feels about our own police not upholding our laws and sending the Chinese on their way or arresting them. Not one pointed out there were dozens of cameras they had passed and everyone from the council to MI5 had their "IMAGE"... It's a transit station there would be cameras everywhere, there is no right to image or privacy in public, and in transit area you are monitored and awful lot more. They know that, so it was a political event they sought to enact...

It's not great, but it's a pity he went running to every two bit right wing news channel with it. Not a good look at all.

You both should check out the funny videos that have been done as a response to the crazy piano incident! I side with Dr.K, and free speech. Oh and the piano was donated by the Elton John, so you weren't far off when you thought about Britain. It's nice to get a view from the Midwest too.

Well done guys spread this video world wide and expose this behaviour as unacceptable.

I've seen a number of Videos about this, something really strange about the whole thing!

"If you don't want to be in the video, then leave the area." You didn't see the whole video. He basically told them that. "We are in public, and we are allowed to film. If you don't want to be in the video, then move along". They didn't like that.