Six Queen’s students are the victims of a hate crime that took place on Sunday, according to Kingston police.
The male students, who self-identify as Muslim, were walking home from Empire Theatres near Division St. and Highway 401 at approximately 1:30 a.m. when they were assaulted by four Caucasian males. The assault itself happened closer to the downtown core, at Fraser and Patrick Streets.
Approximated to be between 18-25 years old, the group approached the students on bicycles, yelling hate-based profanities and racial slurs while wielding a baseball bat.
One of the victims of the attack said they were approached by the males, who were drunk and offering to sell them drugs. “As they turned onto Fraser St. these four guys started chasing [us] who are all Muslim and they started screaming out … foul languages and racial hate speeches,” the student said, adding they originally thought the attackers wielded a machete.
“We were terrified because we thought it was really a machete and the guy was going to literally slit open and kill everyone,” he said. “They caught one guy and they hit him on the biceps and the thigh area, but it turned out to be a baseball bat, not a machete.”
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