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Calgary police have charged a person in reference to an incident wherein a girl was assaulted and subjected to racial slurs.
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On Jan. 13, round 5 p.m., a girl was ready at a bus shelter within the 900 block of seventeenth Avenue SW when she was approached by a person. He then slapped her cellphone out of her arms and proceeded to chunk the girl whereas shouting racist slurs at her.
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The person continued to yell and threaten the girl till three bystanders intervened, police stated in a press launch issued Thursday. As quickly because the officers arrived, they positioned the person and arrested him.
Michael Grant Williams, 36, is charged with one depend every of assault and failure to adjust to a launch order. After session with the hate crimes unit, the case is being handled as hate motivated.
“Everybody has the best to really feel protected of their group. There is no such thing as a place for hate in our metropolis and we wish to thank the bystanders for coming to the sufferer’s support,” stated Const. Matt Messenger from the Hate Crime Prevention Unit.
