What looked like an anti-Semitic attack at a Winnipeg cafe that drew public concern and political condemnation was not a hate crime but an alleged sham staged by owners of the business, police said Wednesday.
Officers responded last Thursday to a report that a woman who worked at the BerMax Caffe and Bistro was assaulted and that the business was vandalized and spray-painted with hate-related graffiti. It was the night before Passover.
"I am hugely disappointed and frankly angry that this family has used hate and racism in such a disingenuous way. In doing so, they have allowed cynicism to creep into this discussion -- cynicism that trivializes genuine victims of hate." "Winnipeggers stand members of our Jewish community today & always, as we combat racism & antisemitism, & defend human rights together," Mayor Brian Bowman wrote on Twitter at the time.
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