{"id":930056,"date":"2026-10-12T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930056\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:12:16","slug":"man-wanted-for-unprovoked-attack-against-demonstrator-on-yonge-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930056\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted for unprovoked attack against demonstrator on Yonge Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police are searching for a man after someone was allegedly assaulted during a demonstration in downtown Toronto on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the victim was walking northbound on Yonge Street near Grosvenor Street and was speaking with another demonstrator when a man approached them from behind and allegedly punched them several times in the head without provocation. <\/p>\n<p>The victim fell to the ground, sustaining injuries to their face and leg. <\/p>\n<p>The man is described as five-feet-five with a thin build and black hair. He was last seen wearing prescription glasses, a grey jacket, dark grey sweatpants and was carrying a black Under Armour backpack. <\/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\/10\/1791796336_324_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":"Toronto police are searching for a man after someone was allegedly assaulted during a demonstration in downtown Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-930056","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\/930056","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=930056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}