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Old 05-17-2022, 10:12 AM   #1
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Default Apparent Racially Motivated Attack At the Dome During Game 7

Apna Hockey on Instagram has posted about a an apparently “racially motivated” attack happening in the stands during Game 7.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpHzrGL...d=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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Apna Hockey was just notified of racially charged attack on a fellow community member in Calgary during game 7 of the playoffs against the Dallas Stars
Uncle Ji (pictured above) who is a very huge Calgary Flames fan was attending his first Calgary Flames game when two Caucasian people attacked and pushed Uncle causing him to fall down rows of seating at the Saddledome, injuring his knee.
If anyone knows the two suspects pictured in the 3rd slide please direct message us, we will contact the Calgary Flames about this incident to ensure that the perpetrators are held accountable
It is heartbreaking to see that Hockey, a sport that unites so many of during playoffs, makes people of colour feel like outsiders. Justice must be served for Uncle, this behaviour is intolerable @flamesfoundation @nhlflames @nhl @ctv_calgary @globalcalgary
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:15 AM   #2
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Despicable. Those are super clear pics, someone will ID them.
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:19 AM   #3
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Disgusting and sad.
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:20 AM   #4
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If true, it's despicable obviously.



Kinda hard to believe two people would just push an old guy down because he's brown with no context or background or anything.



I hope the truth comes to light.
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:25 AM   #5
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I've read this through a few times - how do they know it was racially motivated?
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:27 AM   #6
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I've read this through a few times - how do they know it was racially motivated?
Not clear, hence I put racially motivated in quotations in the OP. It could be racially motivated, but obviously the whole story isn’t out yet. They are just trying to collect more information, I guess, to bring it to the attention of the Flames etc.
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:32 AM   #7
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I've read this through a few times - how do they know it was racially motivated?
I would assume they also have some verbal racist statements along with the physical violence.
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:33 AM   #8
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Explicitly labeling them as racists in public posts with pictures that clearly identify them seems like a risky thing to do if they just suspect it was racially motivated.

Obviously, pushing a guy over like that and risking serious injury is terrible. It just seems like this post puts the victim's family at risk of defamatory libel if they can't produce some solid evidence of it being racially motivated. I am not a lawyer and may be totally wrong though. It just seems like it may have been wiser to frame that as suspected racist motivations rather than 1000% racist.
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I would assume they also have some verbal racist statements along with the physical violence.
Verbal abuse wasnt mentioned anywhere. Why make that assumption?
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:36 AM   #10
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Incidents like this are generally on an upward trend sadly, so I am inclined to take the victim at his word until otherwise disproven.
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They look like classy contributing members of society
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:39 AM   #12
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Weird situation (it happened in the stands but they took photos of them while on the concourse?), but obviously unacceptable.

I also hope people don't use the BoA as an excuse to do stupid things in the stands, on the concourse, or out in the streets. They were talking about this on 960 this morning -- probably wishful thinking but cheering for either team doesn't give you permission to be an ***hole.
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:40 AM   #13
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People declaring it racially motivated doesn't make it so.

Could be just an ####### doing ####### things, regardless of the target.

However, after a few drinks the inner racist comes out with those that are actually just hidden and well-behaved secret racists... Booze is the ultimate truth serum sometimes.

Anyway, I hope that these people are banned from the dome and/or charged if this was an actual assault as described.
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Verbal abuse wasnt mentioned anywhere. Why make that assumption?
I think its a realistic assumption. 2 white people shove an older visible minority and the family says its racially motivated.

It's my personal assumption from witnessing how people can speak to minorities.
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Incidents like this are generally on an upward trend sadly, so I am inclined to take the victim at his word until otherwise disproven.
Yeah, unfortunately there seems to be plenty of this going on. I wonder whether it is indeed substantially increased, or whether reporting on it has merely increased, but racially motivated random attacks are sadly unsurprising occurrences.
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I think you always need to exercise caution getting your primary news from social media. Hopefully whatever happened, the truth comes out and justice is served accordingly.
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Weird way to report it - I hope those people in the photos are the actual people who committed it.
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I am wondering how it's racially motivated and not just drunk a$$holery, too.

In the Instagram story, the 4th slide said that they THINK it's because he was wearing a turban, but then also claims that their "little cousin" was there and witnessed the whole thing and it's "1000% racially motivated". But...no on is saying why or how.

It's quite unfortunate though, and I hope he heals up quickly.
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I think you always need to exercise caution getting your primary news from social media. Hopefully whatever happened, the truth comes out and justice is served accordingly.

This right here. Spreading pictures of random people on social media and declaring them guilty of a racist assault doesn't make it true, and its also not very smart as it could possibly leave them open to lawsuits if it can be proven not to be true.


File a police report and let them handle it.
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I am really worried about the next two weeks. Could be a lot of violence especially mixed with booze.
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