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"I heard that he was an illegal immigrant and an alien, I was shocked," said Arden Keet, an incident witness in a grocery store of North London which has become viral since.
with his son at the Sobeys till on Adelaide Street North when a white man confronted a dark-skinned man.
Police say that they were called to the store when the confrontation began. Part of the interaction was captured on video and posted on social networks before the agents arrived.
In the video, a man wearing a red T-shirt was seen preventing another man wearing a black hoodie from leaving the store. "I want to leave, stop mugging," says the man in the black hoodie in the video
"Do not touch him, why are you touching him? a woman says off camera, while the man in the red shirt approaching the man in the black hoodie.
Keet says she was disappointed that most people inside the store seem to ignore the situation
"I believe what I heard was happening in real life" , did she say.
"I was shocked and amazed that no one else was really bothered by that or upset .. Oh, he was crazy" (about the man with the backpack) That I was so angry, because if he had a mental illness or something, it did not allow him to be badaulted. "
I read the video and said that the language
"There were words that were obviously hurtful to the man who was involved," London Const. Const. Kimberly Flett
said. "We do not tolerate that anyone." one uses hurtful language or something that implies any hatred towards a minority or a person in the city. "
CBC London asks for more information about the incident.If you know the men or have witnessed the incident, contact us.
Earlier confrontation
"There was an incident involving them more t in the store and a second incident that took place. "The men do not know each other and we have no information to suggest that the victim has concerns about his safety."
Sobeys responded to the incident by saying that his staff was dismayed by the behavior of the attacker in the incident, the man in the red T-shirt.
"These situations are downright frightening for our store teams and our customers," wrote Jennifer McCrindle, director of external communications at Sobeys. email:
"The safety of our customers and our employees is our number one priority, always."
An employee called the police before the video was captured, McCrindle said. The service manager went to the store and repeatedly asked the man in red T-shirt to leave. [The manager] "[The manager] was also very aware that a situation like this can quickly worsen with a restless individual."
When the officers arrived at the scene, the situation degenerated.
Police said that the man wearing the red T-shirt had been warned that agents had acted. The two men left the store without injury
It is not known what triggered the confrontation
Reaction to the viral video
At the time of publication, the video was viewed more than one Millions of times and shared by
"I think it's really a shame," Sarah told CBC News while she was shopping at Sobeys store on Thursday morning.
"It was an act of hatred towards someone who did not really deserve it and it is unfortunate that it happens here in London."
In the spring, a report submitted to the London Police Services Board in hate crimes reported in the city. The report indicates that 64 incidents were reported in 2017, compared to 40 in 2016.
Of these incidents, 31 were charged in 2017, compared to 11 in 2016. Five incidents involved badault and seven incidents included racist insults.
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