{"id":757689,"date":"2026-06-24T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:25:09","slug":"woman-arrested-in-hate-assault-in-downtown-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757689\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in hate assault in downtown Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0June 23, 2026 at 8:42PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0June 23, 2026 at 8:28PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A woman has been arrested after an elderly woman was assaulted in downtown Toronto over the weekend in what police are investigating as a hate-motivated incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police were called to the area of Dundas Street East and Sherbourne Street after reports of an assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66281\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66281\/\">Police allege<\/a> the suspect approached the elderly woman from behind and shoved her to the ground, causing her to fall into the roadway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the assault, the suspect allegedly made anti-East Asian remarks toward the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect then fled the area before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the victim suffered minor injuries as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Tuesday, police arrested and charged Thalia Baber, 29, of Toronto with assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She is scheduled to appear in court in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0June 23, 2026 at 8:42PM EDT Published:\u00a0June 23, 2026 at 8:28PM EDT A woman has been arrested after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-757689","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\/757689","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=757689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}