Police investigate video of transphobic hate incident on Hamilton bus
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Hamilton police are asking witnesses to come forward after seeing a video of a Hamilton man hurling transphobic and racist insults toward passengers on an HSR bus.
Police issued a news release on Tuesday about the three-minute video after CBC Hamilton asked the police service about it a day earlier. It also said the incident was reported via the service's online reporting tool by a third party in another province.
The video, posted online Monday, appears to have been filmed from inside an HSR bus as it approached the Lawrence Road entrance of Gage Park.
The person recording the video appears to be a 42-year-old Hamilton man named Chris.
He regularly live streams on YouTube and other social media platforms using the alias Mr. Bum Tickler. His channel has numerous videos of him getting in heated confrontations with other people around the city.
The transphobic tirade that's gone viral is only a snippet of a now-deleted live stream that broadcast on Monday.
CBC Hamilton has viewed the video but is not publishing it to protect the others in the video — who have not been identified and did not appear to consent to the recording — from further harm.
In the video, Chris is sitting on an HSR bus headed toward Gage Park's Festival of Friends. He had also livestreamed at the festival for the past few days.
"I don't know what this goofball, weird, transformer looking fool is laughing at," Chris says, pointing toward a passenger seated in front of him.
"Does anyone love you?" responds the rider, seemingly in defence.
Chris could be heard mocking the people he is filming, asks the rider what their pronouns are and insults the rider some more.
"You're deflecting because nobody gives a s**t about you," the rider responds to Chris in the video.
Chris tells the rider to "get off the bus and say that to me" before threatening to hit the rider and making more transphobic comments.
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