Police have laid a slew of charges in relation to an incident last weekend in which a man was caught on camera yelling racially offensive language at a family shopping at a Halifax Costco.
In a news release Friday, Halifax police said officers arrested a man Thursday in Port Dufferin, N.S., roughly 125 kilometres east of Halifax.
The release said officers deployed a stun gun when the suspect brandished a weapon. He was treated by paramedics at the scene and medically cleared.
Randall Byron Publicover, 37, is charged with 10 offences, including public incitement of hatred, assault and four counts of uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death.
He was scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court on Friday.
A video of a man at the Bayers Lake Costco on July 4 was widely circulated on social media showing the man following two women in hijabs, telling them to “get the f–k out of the country.”
Halifax police seeking man who yelled racial slurs, threats at family in Costco
Police had sought the public’s help in identifying the suspect.
Friday’s release said the investigation is ongoing.
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