{"id":772542,"date":"2026-07-01T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:09:09","slug":"toronto-man-charged-in-alleged-hate-motivated-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772542\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man charged in alleged hate-motivated assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man has been arrested after an unprovoked assault in North York on Tuesday afternoon that is being investigated as a suspected hate-motivated incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after 12 p.m., police allege the suspect, without provocation, approached the victim in the area of Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66334\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66334\/\">Police<\/a> allege the suspect began yelling anti-Israeli slurs at the victim and then picked up rocks, repeatedly throwing them at the victim while uttering death threats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they believe the victim was targeted because they were wearing religious attire when they were assaulted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ten minutes later, at 12:20 p.m., police arrested Abdulkadir Al-Jelani, 58, of Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was charged with multiple offences, including three counts of assault with a weapon and one count of uttering death threats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is scheduled to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after an unprovoked assault in North York on Tuesday afternoon that is being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-772542","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\/772542","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=772542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}