Calgary police investigate COVID-19 threats to local business, Indigenous populations – Globalnews.ca
April 1, 2020
Calgary police are investigating two threats related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In a news release on Wednesday, police said one of the threats was made against a Calgary-based Chinese restaurant.
On March 14, the restaurant received an anonymous threat believed to be motivated by the current pandemic, police said. A suspect has been identified but no charges have been laid.
“We won’t ignore it,” Const. Craig Collins, the hate crimes coordinator with CPS, said in a news release on Wednesday.
In the second case, a man allegedly commented on an Indigenous group’s social media page, threatening to intentionally spread the virus to Indigenous people, police said.
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