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RSS Feeds`I want to leave. Stop assaulting me.´ Hate crime unit reviewing race-related incident at London grocery store
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

19 july 2018 22:08:37

 
`I want to leave. Stop assaulting me.´ Hate crime unit reviewing race-related incident at London grocery store
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


The police hate crime unit in London, Ont., is reviewing a race-related incident between two men inside a grocery store after video of a white man calling another man an “illegal alien” and preventing him from leaving the store went viral this week.Officers were called inside a Sobeys store in the city’s north end at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.London police said the men were initially involved in a verbal altercation in one of the aisles of the store. A second interaction happened at the check out.A video of the latter argument was posted to Facebook and has gathered more than 870,000 views. In the video, a white man in a red T-shirt can be seen blocking another man in a black hoodie from leaving the store.The man in the red shirt can be heard in the video saying “you’re an illegal alien” to the other man, who appears to be of Middle Eastern descent.“I want to leave. Stop assaulting me. I want to leave,” the man in the black hoodie says in the video after the man in the red shirt approached him and forced him to stay.Read more: Opinion | There is no moment in which racialized people are safe from racial terrorExperts say woman who told men they were ‘not Canadian’ in viral video was rightfully firedOpinion | Woman yelling at group of men in Alberta Denny’s shows racism is part of Canada’s characterKatie Pocasangre Montoya, who posted the video on Facebook, wrote that the man in the red shirt called police to come to the store for the man in the hoodie. “(The man in the red shirt) continues to ask if (the man in the hoodie) is scared to be deported & asked the young man to show his Canadian documentation, & tells him if he leaves the store he will conduct a “citizens arrest” on behalf of the police,” wrote Montoya.“Don’t touch him. Why are you touching him?” the woman filming the video can be heard saying.No injuries were sustained and both men left th ...


 
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