A 50-year-old white male has been arrested following a racially charged confrontation with a Muslim family at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal in Toronto earlier this week.
Toronto resident Lombray Ball was arrested Thursday in what police described as a “suspected hate-motivated crime” after he confronted two men and their family before getting into a heated exchange and yelling “It’s my f—— province,” in an incident captured on video.
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Police said officers responded to a call about an assault at the terminal around 6:30 p.m. Monday evening.
The incident appears to start as a man with a beard makes a statement about the other man’s breath as they come face-to-face.
“Wow. Your breath smells like alcohol,” he said.
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A man dressed in a Hawaiian shirt responds back with expletives.
“I don’t give a f—. You don’t tell me what to do in my province,” he said. “You don’t ask me a f—— question. It’s my f—— province.”
The four-minute long video then goes on to show the man in a Hawaiian shirt shoving a member of the other man’s family.
“He’s drunk man. Let him go. You can smell him,” a woman’s voice said in the background.
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Another woman is then heard on the phone speaking to police.
“This man is abusing my brother. He is touching him. He is pushing him,” she said.
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The verbal exchange continues until security personnel from the terminal intervene.
Ball has been charged with two counts of assault and threatening death. He’s scheduled to appear in a Toronto courtroom Friday.
–David Shum contributed to this report.
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