Police in Calgary are looking for a man they say is responsible for a hate-motivated assault downtown last month. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, July 3, around 1:40 p.m., a woman and her family were walking south on 4 Street SW near 10 Avenue SW, when a man they didn\u2019t know starting yelling racial comments at them from across the street. <\/p>\n
Investigators say the man then verbally threatened the family as he crossed the street and aggressively approached them. <\/p>\n
Trying to protect her family, the woman stepped in front of them to create distance. <\/p>\n
She was then physically assaulted by the man, police explain. <\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s family called police during the assault, but the suspect left the scene before officers got there. <\/p>\n
Police describe the suspect as around 5\u20198\u2033 tall, with a slim build, light brown hair, and a short beard.<\/p>\n
At the time of the assault, he was carrying a grey and black backpack and wearing a red t-shirt, jeans, and black and white sneakers. <\/p>\n
Calgary police say any evidence of hate motivation is considered by the courts after a person is found guilty of the connected crime. If the judge decides during sentencing that hate was a motivation for the crime, it\u2019s an aggravating factor that can add to the convicted person\u2019s sentence. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the identity of the suspect is asked to contact police by calling 403-266-1234 or tip anonymously through CrimeStoppers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Calgary are looking for a man they say is responsible for a hate-motivated assault downtown last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-88930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88930","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=88930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}