Coalition of Muslim Women K-W calls for change following assault at Kitchener, Ont. DriveTest centre
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Members of the Coalition of Muslim Women of Kitchener-Waterloo (CMW) and the National Council of Canadian Muslims spoke Thursday following what police describe as a hate-motivated incident at a DriveTest centre in Kitchener, Ont.
Members of the Coalition of Muslim Women of Kitchener-Waterloo (CMW) and the National Council of Canadian Muslims spoke Thursday following what police describe as a hate-motivated incident at a DriveTest centre in Kitchener, Ont.
The interaction was captured on video by CMW staff member Mifrah Abid and was posted to Twitter on Wednesday.
The video shows Abid confronting a person whom she accuses of saying a racist comment.
“I just said don't be rude. I didn't say anything else. We're all waiting in this line. Everybody heard you here making a racist comment about brown people,” Abid says in the video.
Abid was recording the interaction from her phone when the person she was speaking to lunged towards her and grabbed the phone out of her hand before throwing it back at her.
“Don't [expletive] record me [expletive], it's not my permission. That's not my permission,” the person says.
The person then left the DriveTest Centre on Ottawa Street North as other people still in the room called for security to step in.
