SURREY \u2014 Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after video of people vandalizing a rainbow crosswalk was posted on social media over the weekend by the leader of a registered political party.<\/p>\n
Police say they identified three people of interest, and evidence is being gathered to support possible criminal charges, although no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
Amrit Birring, who is the leader of the Freedom Party of British Columbia, posted video showing him and another man spraying black paint on the crosswalk, while a third waves a placard.<\/p>\n
Birring says in another post that police were called by a \u201cnasty lady,\u201d who wasn\u2019t happy with them putting black lines on the crosswalk.<\/p>\n
Surrey police say officers were sent to Holland Park on Saturday after they were notified of a protest taking place, in which \u201cblack paint was apparently used.\u201d<\/p>\n
Birring, who has unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in federal and provincial elections and for Surrey\u2019s mayoralty, did not immediately return a voicemail seeking comment.<\/p>\n
He received 163 votes when he stood in the 2024 provincial election in Surrey-Newton.<\/p>\n
Surrey Pride denounced the vandalism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an act of hate and has been reported to the police and mayor\u2019s office,\u201d the group says in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURREY \u2014 Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after video of people vandalizing a rainbow crosswalk was posted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-708408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708408","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=708408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}