A Brampton man has been arrested and charged with assault with a weapon following a protest exterior the Hindu Sabha Mandir on The Gore Street earlier this week.
The 35-year-old man is the second individual to be arrested in reference to the protest. On Wednesday police arrested a 57-year-old Toronto man who has been charged with publicly inciting hatred.
Peel Regional Police say they responded to an altercation throughout an indication on the Mandir on Nov. 3.
As tensions between opposing sides elevated, the demonstrations grew to become bodily and assaultive, police mentioned in a information launch on Saturday.
Police say they started investigating a number of offences that occurred through the demonstration, a lot of which have been captured on video; together with people utilizing flags and sticks to assault folks.
Police say the 35-year-old man was arrested on Friday. He was launched on circumstances and is to seem on the Ontario Courtroom of Justice in Brampton at a later date.
A strategic investigative group devoted to investigating incidents of criminality through the Nov. 3 and 4 incidents has since been fashioned, police mentioned within the launch.
Police are reminding the general public that complicated investigations akin to these take time and that people are arrested as they’re recognized and in no particular order.
Investigators proceed to investigate lots of of movies of the incidents and are working to establish extra suspects concerned in criminality and anticipate additional arrests, police say.
