‘I’ll kill your children’: Indian-origin couple harassed in Canada by stranger
An Indian-origin couple was racially abused in Canada by a man who yelled ‘go back to your country’ and threatened to ‘kill’ their children, according to media reports. The incident took place when the Indian couple and the 47-year-old Dale Robertson got into a scuffle over a parking lot at the Walmart Supercentre in Hamilton, Ontario. The argument started after the couple tried to back into a parking spot and apparently got in the way of the Robertson. “What kind of example are you setting for your children?” the Indian man is heard asking the other as his wife records. In no time, the Indian man’s wife was hit by the truck as Robertson quickly accelerates before hitting the brakes, the report said. The Indian man walks alongside the truck as it slowly drives away and says, “You want me to go to my own country? I’m a Canadian citizen.” Robertson responds by saying “Show me. Prove it. I don’t believe you.” Then, he crudely attempts to copy the other man’s accent saying “You don’t talk like a Canadian.” “I’m racist. I don’t like you, I don’t like her,” he adds. “I would kill your children first,” Robertson was quoted as saying by the report. Hamilton police are investigating the incident as a hate crime, the report added. Detective Paul Corrigan said, “It hit them really hard,”. “They were extremely shocked by it, they had not experienced (something like this) before.” Meanwhile, Robertson has been arrested and also charged with with threatening death, dangerous driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident, it added. -PTC News
