Anonymous
8/12/2025, 3:45:07 AM No.213723080
An 18-year-old Kawartha Lakes man is facing a charge of uttering threats as a result of a racism-related incident in the parking lot of Lansdowne Place Mall on Tuesday, July 29.
Peterborough police began an investigation on Friday (August 8) after receiving a report of the incident.
The victims, who appear to be a man and woman of southeast Indian ethnicity, shared several videos of the incident on social media on August 6, including on the Peterborough Shares Facebook group.
“I and my partner are still traumatized and I am posting so that it does not happen to someone else and we want justice,” wrote the male victim.
The videos show the couple being harassed by three young white men in a large white pickup truck that was parked in a parking spot in front of the victims’ vehicle at the mall.
In the video, one of the men gets out of the truck and walks to the victims’ vehicle, where he proceeds to “hump” the side mirror on the driver’s side of the vehicle while staring at the male victim as he was recording the incident on his phone.
At one point in the video, the male victim walks up to the truck. The driver rolls down his window and when the victim asks “Why did you approach like that?” the man in the front passenger seat replies “Because you’re black,” at which point the driver says “No” to the passenger.
The third man in the back seat of the truck, who had humped the side mirror, rolls down his window and can be heard replying to the driver “I won’t say anything bad.”
Peterborough police began an investigation on Friday (August 8) after receiving a report of the incident.
The victims, who appear to be a man and woman of southeast Indian ethnicity, shared several videos of the incident on social media on August 6, including on the Peterborough Shares Facebook group.
“I and my partner are still traumatized and I am posting so that it does not happen to someone else and we want justice,” wrote the male victim.
The videos show the couple being harassed by three young white men in a large white pickup truck that was parked in a parking spot in front of the victims’ vehicle at the mall.
In the video, one of the men gets out of the truck and walks to the victims’ vehicle, where he proceeds to “hump” the side mirror on the driver’s side of the vehicle while staring at the male victim as he was recording the incident on his phone.
At one point in the video, the male victim walks up to the truck. The driver rolls down his window and when the victim asks “Why did you approach like that?” the man in the front passenger seat replies “Because you’re black,” at which point the driver says “No” to the passenger.
The third man in the back seat of the truck, who had humped the side mirror, rolls down his window and can be heard replying to the driver “I won’t say anything bad.”
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