{"id":582752,"date":"2026-04-05T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:24:09","slug":"2-men-arrested-at-demonstration-in-downtown-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582752\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men arrested at demonstration in downtown Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0April 04, 2026 at 4:33PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0April 04, 2026 at 3:59PM EDT<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/XG5H6QJ6LKZOTKFFOEM46FRJOA.jpg\"  width=\"1400\" height=\"787\"\/>A Toronto Police Service logo patch is shown in Toronto, on Sept. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Spencer Colby <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have made several arrests at a demonstration in the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, they arrested two men for assault and assault with a weapon at a demonstration at University Street and Queen Street West. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The demonstration, called Rally for Justice, started across the street from the U.S. Consulate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police didn\u2019t provide additional details but said the investigation is ongoing and more information would be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DEMO ARREST:<br \/>University St &amp; Queen St W<br \/>2:30pm<br \/>-2 males have been arrested for assault &amp; assault w\/ a weapon<br \/>-ongoing investigation<br \/>-further information will come by way of media release<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GO693232?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GO693232<\/a><br \/>^av<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/2040507492740878368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Updated:\u00a0April 04, 2026 at 4:33PM EDT Published:\u00a0April 04, 2026 at 3:59PM EDT A Toronto Police Service logo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-582752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582752","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=582752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}