Two protesters arrested at Calgary ‘Reading with Royalty’ event
Global News
A man and a woman could be facing Criminal Code charges after being arrested at a 'Reading with Royalty' event at a Calgary library.
A Reading with Royalty event at Calgary’s Signal Hill Library resulted in a pair of arrests, police confirmed Wednesday.
The Calgary Police Service said they took an adult female protester into custody after she pulled the fire alarm. An adult male was arrested for breaching bail conditions, police said. Both arrests happened at around 2 p.m.
Charges are pending under the Criminal Code and police said no charges on Wednesday were under the city’s new Safe and Inclusive Entry Bylaw, passed on Tuesday.
Videos on social media appeared to show Derek Reimer being arrested by police.
On Feb. 25, 36-year-old Reimer was arrested at another Reading with Royalty event at the Seton Library, after police received reports that several people had aggressively entered a library classroom, shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs at the children and parents in attendance.
Reimer received a total of eight charges in a hate-motivated crime, Calgary police and bylaw officers said at the time.
On Tuesday outside city hall, Reimer told Global News he was released from police custody on bail conditions of not being within 200 metres of an LGBTQ2 event and was prohibited from any contact with the LGBTQ2 community.
The city’s new bylaw puts a 100-metre gap between any specified protest — protests that object to or disapprove of any race, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, age, place of origin, marital or family status, sexual orientation or income source — and entrances to a public library, city rec centre or pool.