{"id":246944,"date":"2025-10-29T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:45:07","slug":"hate-crime-investigation-underway-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246944\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate crime investigation underway in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police in Hamiton say they\u2019re investigating a hate crime that occurred in Ancaster over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident, which Hamilton Police Service is calling a hate-motivated assault, happened on Oct. 25 at about 9:30 p.m. near Golf Links Road and Neville Drive in the Meadowlands neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say a 20-year-old woman was walking in that vicinity when she was approached by a vehicle. Its occupants then began to utter anti-Black slurs towards her and proceeded to assault her, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the vehicle along with its occupants are unknown to the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The vehicle is described as a silver- or bronze-coloured sedan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One of the suspects is described as a light-skinned male with curly black or brown hair. He was last seen wearing a grey or white sweater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have not released further suspect information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators are asking residents and business owners in the area to review their security footage from 9 to 10 p.m. on Saturday for any \u201csuspicious activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact the Division 30 Staff Sergeant at 905-546-3886 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Hamiton say they\u2019re investigating a hate crime that occurred in Ancaster over the weekend. The incident,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-246944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}