Calgary police say a 36-year-old man is going through two expenses of a hate crime.
Police say protesters disrupted a Studying with Royalty occasion on the Seton Library within the metropolis’s southeast early final month.
The family-friendly storytimes at public libraries are led by native drag queens or kings, and kids are invited to don their finest outfit, cape or crown.
Officers had been referred to as round 11 a.m. on February 25 to stories that a number of individuals aggressively entered a library classroom and shouted homophobic and transphobic slurs on the youngsters and oldsters current.
Derek Scott Reimer was arrested and charged with inflicting a disturbance and mischief.
Police say hate crimes are these the place an offender is motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred primarily based on private traits of the sufferer.
