{"id":325833,"date":"2025-12-04T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325833\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:26:08","slug":"toronto-police-say-man-tried-to-disarm-officer-at-downtown-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325833\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police say man tried to disarm officer at downtown demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police say one of two people arrested at a downtown demonstration on Wednesday allegedly tried to take a gun from an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say officers were on hand during a demonstration at Meridian Hall in the Front Street East and Yonge Street area on December 3, at around 6:30 p.m., when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs officers were directing demonstrators onto the sidewalk, one suspect assaulted an officer and attempted to disarm another,\u201d a Toronto Police release states.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then fled into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Police say later that the same suspect and a second person followed someone after they were leaving the event, with the second person allegedly uttering threats towards the person who was leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to identify both suspects and arrest them without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Zinderdine, 24, of Oakville, was charged with assaulting a peace officer, disarming a peace officer, criminal harassment, and uttering threats.<\/p>\n<p>Meagan London, 21, of Toronto, faces a single charge of criminal harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say one of two people arrested at a downtown demonstration on Wednesday allegedly tried to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-325833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325833","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=325833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}