Former Saskatchewan politician convicted of hate speech now charged with impersonating a police officer
The former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party, who was previously convicted for hate speech, has been charged with twice impersonating a police officer in Saskatoon.
Travis Patron, who is 32, was arrested Wednesday and faces additional charges of criminal harassment and failing to comply with court-imposed conditions. Police say officers were called to a hotel last week after reports a man approached a woman and her child, identified himself as police and accused her of abduction.A few days later, police received another report of a man approaching a woman and identified himself as a peace officer, offering to escort her through the area.Patron appeared in provincial court Thursday and is scheduled to return next week.
He was handed a one-year sentence in October for the hate speech charge after he called for the genocide of Jewish people in 2019.
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