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Main Menu Search edmontonsun. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Share this Story: Letters Feb. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. Latest National Stories. Email Address There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Thanks for signing up! Local leaders roundly condemned the violence.
The root cause of these attacks is surely Islamophobia, but the exact mechanisms and impetuses remained obscure. Why, exactly, were these attacks happening now, in these specific places, to these specific women? He later pointed to a February anti-mask march featuring tiki torches — which morphed into symbols of hate after the infamous white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
I think people are unaware of who is actually doing these attacks, and how nuanced it actually is. It's not black and white Downtown and other hubs have been drained of workers. Stephen Camp, a retired Edmonton police officer and member of the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee, said upswings in hate-based violence tend to coincide with divisive news events. Camp noted the Edmonton attacks took place in the aftermath of the U. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.
But in her experience as a hijabi woman and public policy advisor on hate crimes, they overlooked a crucial fact: that oftentimes, those who lash out at visibly Muslim women are marginalized themselves. When she was 16, her dad, a taxi-driver, was severely beaten by a fare evader in a hate-motivated attack. Often, the person appeared to be Indigenous. Cheema spent a long time unpacking that reality. In May, she posted her thoughts on Twitter. And part of me would be more at ease if that was the actual case.
She went on. Many of them are Indigenous. Those who committed hate crimes against Muslims tended to be older, at Camp, for his part, said those arrested when he was a member of the Edmonton police hates crime unit tended to be white. Of the five people charged in the Edmonton attacks, at least three are Indigenous.
Two have family members who attended residential schools. At the time of their arrests, all three defendants were homeless. Of the 2, people currently without a home in Edmonton, 60 per cent are Indigenous — a phenomena experts say is a direct legacy of residential schools.
Some of the violence against Muslim women overlapped with discovery of thousands of unmarked graves at former residential school sites. The most prolific offender, year-old Shane Edward Tremblay , physically or verbally attacked three Muslim women on two days in early Tremblay is Indigenous. Left to raise him was his mother, whose parents attended residential schools.
Five years before the attacks, Tremblay lost his sister, went on disability and started using meth. When police arrested him, he was sleeping in a transit station.
Tremblay attributed his behaviour to a drug-induced psychosis, which made him paranoid and kept him awake for days. In June, Tremblay pleaded guilty to eight crimes and was sentenced to seven months in jail. The third defendant, Joseph Gladue, admitted in March to assaulting a year-old Black man in Parkdale.
Three of the cases are still unresolved. Richard Bradley Stevens, the man accused in the Southgate Centre attack, skipped court and is wanted by police. Andrew Timothy Brown, arrested following the alleged road rage incident, is scheduled to go to trial next October.
Both have home addresses listed on their court records. As for the attack on the sisters in St. Albert, police have not identified a suspect as of this writing.
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