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A 36-year-old Toronto man has been charged with assault after a suspected hate-motivated attack targeted a Muslim woman earlier this year inside a bus.
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Toronto Police said an assault was reported to them on April 13 after a man approached a woman on a bus in the Progress-Milner Aves. area north of Hwy. 401 in Scarborough and allegedly made derogatory and anti-Muslim comments toward her.
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The victim was then assaulted and suffered minor injuries.
The man, who was not known to the victim, exited the bus.
This man was being sought for a suspected hate-motivated attack against a Muslim woman on a Durham Region Transit bus in Scarborough on Monday, April 13., 2026 Photo by Handout /Toronto PoliceIncident captured on video
The incident was captured on video at the time and shared by the National Council of Canadian Muslims. It purportedly showed people on a Durham Region Transit bus that was en route to Ajax on April 13 at about 3:30 p.m.
Someone yells “what the f— you looking at me for?” before a man holding a cellphone enters the frame and stomps near the legs or feet of the person recording the video, reportedly a Muslim woman who was wearing a hijab.
“What the f— is wrong with you?” a woman, seemingly the person recording the video, says. “You don’t want to hit girls because we’re Muslim? F— you, go to hell.
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