Asian Canadians dismayed by lack of hate crime charge in assault on elderly man

A B.C. provincial court judge gave Jamie Bezanson a year's probation and a $100 penalty for his assault on an elderly Asian man at a convenience store in East Vancouver in March 2020. Crown prosecutors did not charge him with a hate crime.

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