A girl has been charged in reference to an alleged assault on a younger girl and a Good Samaritan that began on a transit bus in Vancouver.
Star Marie Payou, 37, is charged with of 1 rely of assault and one rely of assault with a weapon within the Might 21 incident that Metro Vancouver Transit Police referred to as an “obvious hate crime.”
In response to police, a 17-year-old woman and her mom boarded a bus close to Pacific Centre Mall in Vancouver when a girl on the bus requested the teenager, who was sporting a scarf, the place she was from and if she was Canadian.
Police stated the lady then “ridiculed and mocked the teenager’s ethnicity” and have become more and more aggressive, telling her, “Your smile is making me wish to punch you within the face.”
The lady then allegedly punched the teenager within the head a number of instances, partially knocking off her scarf, earlier than the woman’s mom and a fellow passenger managed to separate the 2.
A Good Samaritan adopted the feminine suspect when she received off the bus at Hastings Road and Jackson Avenue, and referred to as 911.
When she seen she was being adopted, police stated the suspect took off her boots and commenced hitting the Good Samaritan, who backed off when the suspect allegedly brandished a knife.
Payou is scheduled to make a primary look in Vancouver provincial court docket on Sept. 23.
