mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration<\/a> at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14. <\/p>\n\u201cPromotion of hatred is a toxic, dangerous, and hurtful crime that deeply impacts our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of the investigation, police said they learned Runighan had allegedly obtained a firearm illegally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Aug. 7, RCMP said officers executed a public safety warrant at his residence and seized a 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the time, Runighan was charged with:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace.Improper storage of a firearm.Possession of a firearm without a licence.Possession of a non-restricted firearm without a licence.<\/p>\n
Police said Runighan was released on conditions, and breached those conditions three times, resulting in him being arrested again in September. He was later released by the court after a remand hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Oct. 10, police said Runighan was arrested again for breaching his conditions by posting hate online. He has been in custody since that time.<\/p>\n
Runighan will appear in P.E.I. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 to answer to four charges of breaching his release conditions, along with the four firearms offences.<\/p>\n
Hate crime charges laid Tuesday<\/p>\n
RCMP said they laid additional charges against him on Tuesday after a lengthy investigation into the social media posts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Runighan now also faces charges of:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Public promotion of hatred towards Jews contrary to subsection 319(2) of the Criminal Code of Canada.Wilful promotion of antisemitism contrary to subsection 319(2.1).<\/p>\n
His next court appearance to answer to the hate crime charges is also set for Jan. 13.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Canada, the distinction between freedom of speech and a hate crime is based on the balance between an individual\u2019s right to express themselves and the protection of vulnerable groups from harm,\u201d the RCMP stated in the news release. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn this case based on the numerous postings made by Runighan, charges were laid with public safety in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-364643","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\/364643","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=364643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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