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. “It is unacceptable that some members of our community are weaponizing this pandemic to make others feel even more vulnerable than everyone already does. “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,