{"id":379,"date":"2014-01-15T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=379"},"modified":"2014-01-15T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:29:08","slug":"no-charges-for-man-photographed-urinating-on-komagata-maru-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/15\/no-charges-for-man-photographed-urinating-on-komagata-maru-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"No charges for man photographed urinating on Komagata Maru Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8211; Vancouver Police say that while the actions of a man who urinated on the Komagata Maru Memorial may be offensive and disrespectful, they weren&#8217;t criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Police say no charges will be laid against the man who was photographed urinating on the memorial that marks a dark chapter in the treatment of hundreds of Sikhs who arrived by boat in Vancouver&#8217;s harbour 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The police department&#8217;s Hate Crime Unit was assigned the investigation on Dec. 3 when police were informed that a picture of the man urinating on the memorial was making the rounds on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Const. Brian Montague says police identified and interviewed the suspect and an extensive investigation of the incident was completed.<\/p>\n<p>He says urinating in a public place isn&#8217;t always a criminal offence in Canada, unless an incident meets the standards set out in the Criminal Code, and that wasn&#8217;t the case here.<\/p>\n<p>When the charter ship arrived in Vancouver in May 1914, immigration officials refused to allow the 376 passengers off and when the ship returned to India a riot broke out and 19 passengers were killed by police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8211; Vancouver Police say that while the actions of a man who urinated on the Komagata Maru Memorial may &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}