Pepper spray attack on refugees 'a troubling incident,' says Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer

[applegrove]

Pepper spray attack on refugees 'a troubling incident,' says Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-police-chief-constable-speaks-on-hate-motivated-pepper-spray-incident-1.3397228

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Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer is calling a pepper spray attack outside a welcome event for Syrian refugees a very troubling hate crime and asked the perpetrator to turn himself in.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m. PT Friday 100 people were gathered outside of the Muslim Association of Canada Centre, located at 2122 Kingsway Avenue, when an unknown man on a bicycle rode up and pepper sprayed a group of men, women and children, which included newly arrived refugees from Syria.

Paramedics and the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Service treated 15 people for exposure to pepper spray.

"It's a very troubling situation and the actions of one man shed a negative light on all of the positive work that's been done to welcome the Syrian refugees into our communities," Chief Const. Adam Palmer said at the Vancouver Police Department's main headquarters in the city's downtown area.

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[mwrguy]

1. I keep hearing on here that Islamophobia is over

[applegrove]

2. There has been a huge amount of coverage in canada

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about the ongoing arrival of Syrian refugees, both national and on the local news. How anyone could watch all those heartwarming stories and then go out and do this goes to some sort of brain disease. Toddlers were sprayed. It was in a busy district so hopefully there will be video of the guy on the bike. I hope they get him.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. That is so sick,

beyond words. As a Canadian, I'm so sorry for the victims of this horrible attack.