Date: September 5th, 2024 11:43 PM
Author: Stirring Point
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A Canadian Twitter User Was Arrested for Posting Videos Harassing South Asians. Experts Say Canada’s Justice System is Not Equipped to Stop This Problem.
Legal experts say Chilliwack woman’s racist street harassment videos highlight urgent need to regulate social media platforms
by Rumneek Johal, Reporter
August 29, 2024
A woman in Chilliwack, British Columbia has been criminally charged with hate crimes following an investigation into “racially offensive social media content” amid a series of incidents targeting the city’s South Asian community.
The Chilliwack RCMP said it made the arrests following an investigation into “discriminatory and harmful” content that was posted on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter.
According to the RCMP’s media release, the individual was arrested and released with an upcoming court date on “several recommended Criminal Code Offences”:
“On July 17, 2024 the Chilliwack RCMP received information that a user of X, formerly known as Twitter, had been posting social media content with discriminatory and harmful language. In consultation with the BC RCMP Hate Crimes Unit and with the assistance of members of the public, the Chilliwack RCMP General Investigation Support Team were able to identify the suspected user of this account. On August 7, 2024 this individual was arrested and subsequently released from police custody to appear in court at a later date on several recommended Criminal Code Offences.”
Although Chilliwack RCMP says it is not releasing the name of the individual until criminal charges are formally filed, an X user going by the pseudonym “Canadian Girl” who has engaged in behaviour echoing the description provided by the RCMP announced that she had been arrested for her tweets.
Canadian Girl, who has posted using multiple accounts that are now suspended, has been repeatedly posting videos of herself harassing South Asian drivers on local roads, often yelling racist expletives at other drivers out the window of her vehicle.
In one video obtained by PressProgress, Canadian Girl is seen filming a turbaned Sikh man from her vehicle while on the road in Chilliwack. She calls him an “invader,” a “jeet”(a racist insult often used to attack people of Indian origin online) and tells him to “go back to his f***ing country.”
https://pressprogress.ca/a-canadian-twitter-user-was-arrested-for-posting-videos-harassing-south-asians-experts-say-canadas-justice-system-is-not-equipped-to-stop-this-problem/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589644&forum_id=2...id#48055025)