{"id":841010,"date":"2026-08-01T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841010\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:03:13","slug":"toronto-man-45-charged-following-anti-muslim-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841010\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man, 45, charged following anti-Muslim tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Toronto man is facing several charges in connection with a hate-motivated harassment investigation in the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, 45-year-old Reginald Cuff approached a victim on July 19 near Bond and Shuter Streets, and allegedly repeated anti-Muslim comments during an unprovoked interaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim attempted to walk away, but the accused followed them while continuing to make threats,\u201d police wrote in a press release issued on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFearing for their safety, the victim flagged down a passing police officer,\u201d authorities added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say Cuff was arrested at the scene, but refused to identify himself and \u201cthreatened officers with violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuff was charged with two counts of uttering threats and a single count of criminal harassment and obstructing police.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto man is facing several charges in connection with a hate-motivated harassment investigation in the downtown core.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-841010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841010","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=841010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}