{"id":6136,"date":"2024-01-19T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2024-01-19T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:44:34","slug":"man-charged-in-relation-to-a-hate-motivated-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/man-charged-in-relation-to-a-hate-motivated-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged in Relation to a Hate Motivated Assault."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January&nbsp;17, shortly before&nbsp;9&nbsp;p.m., RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment responded to a report of an assault that occurred outside a restaurant on Sackville Dr. RCMP officers learned that two men were involved in a verbal altercation inside the restaurant. The altercation moved outside after racial slurs were expressed by one man. The same man then assaulted the other individual with a sensory irritant before fleeing on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim, a&nbsp;30-year-old Lower Sackville man, suffered minor injuries. He was treated at the scene by EHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately&nbsp;11:15&nbsp;p.m., RCMP officers located the&nbsp;31-year-old Sackville man involved in the incident, at the Halifax Transit terminal on Cobequid Rd., and safely arrested him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information gathered by investigators indicates that the offence was motivated by hate, based on the race of the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott Alonzo Merk,&nbsp;31, has been charged with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Assault with a Weapon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unauthorized Possession of a Prohibited Weapon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of a Weapon Contrary to an Order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Merk appeared in court yesterday and was remanded into custody. He will return in Dartmouth Provincial Court on February\u00a08,\u00a02024, at\u00a09:30\u00a0a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: RCMP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January&nbsp;17, shortly before&nbsp;9&nbsp;p.m., RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment responded to a report of an assault that occurred outside a restaurant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}