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Just read this and was amazed by the comments from the police.
Base off how this story is written and the comments from the police, my bet is that the teens are BLACK and the man that pushed them into the path of the speeding train is WHITE..
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<span style="font-size: 14pt">Toronto teens shoved onto subway tracks, dodge train</span>
By Megan O'Toole, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 14, 2009
Canwest NewsService
TORONTO - Two teenagers miraculously escaped death after a distraught man pushed them into the path of a Toronto subway train Friday evening, in a seemingly random attack.
Police were called to the subway station in the city's west end shortly before 5 p.m. after hearing that the man had pushed the 14-year-old boys onto the tracks from the eastbound platform.
The two teenagers were trapped by a train that sped into the Dufferin Street station, before being rescued by emergency crews. They were not seriously injured.
One of the boys was able to avoid the train's path by crawling under the platform, Toronto Transit Commission officials said, but the other was clipped by part of the train as it charged past the pair before coming to a stop.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The boy who was hit had to be carried out of the station on a backboard,</span> said Dave Viljak of Toronto Emergency Medical Service. Both of the teenagers were taken to the Hospital for Sick Children.
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Neither suffered severe physical injuries,</span> but both were clearly traumatized, said Viljak.
``When a subway train is coming at that speed, usually the citizen loses big time,'' he said.
Police at the scene quickly apprehended a suspect, a man in his mid-40s who was chased down by onlookers.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Officials do not believe he knew the victims, and said it was <span style="text-decoration: underline">unlikely the man intended to kill the boys</span>, calling the incident ``completely random.'</span>'
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``There doesn't seem to be any reason for it,'' Toronto police Sgt. John Dubreuil said.</span>
TTC spokesman Brad Ross said the suspect was ``screaming and swearing'' when he came up the stairs from the platform after pushing the boys. He attempted to assault a ticket collector and was initially held by TTC staff, but reportedly escaped after grappling with an employee.
Student Tom Billings said a group of people then followed the suspect to a local mall, where the man stopped.
``He was angry. He was clearly in crisis,'' said Billings, noting he and others stayed near the man as they waited for police to arrive. ``He said he'd been waiting 12 hours to be seen at a hospital.''
The suspect did not resist arrest, Billings added.
Trains were shut down for about an hour on the Bloor-Danforth line as police investigated. Shuttle buses were used to help ease the rush-hour commuter chaos.</div></div>
Base off how this story is written and the comments from the police, my bet is that the teens are BLACK and the man that pushed them into the path of the speeding train is WHITE..
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<span style="font-size: 14pt">Toronto teens shoved onto subway tracks, dodge train</span>
By Megan O'Toole, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 14, 2009
Canwest NewsService
TORONTO - Two teenagers miraculously escaped death after a distraught man pushed them into the path of a Toronto subway train Friday evening, in a seemingly random attack.
Police were called to the subway station in the city's west end shortly before 5 p.m. after hearing that the man had pushed the 14-year-old boys onto the tracks from the eastbound platform.
The two teenagers were trapped by a train that sped into the Dufferin Street station, before being rescued by emergency crews. They were not seriously injured.
One of the boys was able to avoid the train's path by crawling under the platform, Toronto Transit Commission officials said, but the other was clipped by part of the train as it charged past the pair before coming to a stop.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The boy who was hit had to be carried out of the station on a backboard,</span> said Dave Viljak of Toronto Emergency Medical Service. Both of the teenagers were taken to the Hospital for Sick Children.
<span style="font-weight: bold">
Neither suffered severe physical injuries,</span> but both were clearly traumatized, said Viljak.
``When a subway train is coming at that speed, usually the citizen loses big time,'' he said.
Police at the scene quickly apprehended a suspect, a man in his mid-40s who was chased down by onlookers.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Officials do not believe he knew the victims, and said it was <span style="text-decoration: underline">unlikely the man intended to kill the boys</span>, calling the incident ``completely random.'</span>'
<span style="font-weight: bold">
``There doesn't seem to be any reason for it,'' Toronto police Sgt. John Dubreuil said.</span>
TTC spokesman Brad Ross said the suspect was ``screaming and swearing'' when he came up the stairs from the platform after pushing the boys. He attempted to assault a ticket collector and was initially held by TTC staff, but reportedly escaped after grappling with an employee.
Student Tom Billings said a group of people then followed the suspect to a local mall, where the man stopped.
``He was angry. He was clearly in crisis,'' said Billings, noting he and others stayed near the man as they waited for police to arrive. ``He said he'd been waiting 12 hours to be seen at a hospital.''
The suspect did not resist arrest, Billings added.
Trains were shut down for about an hour on the Bloor-Danforth line as police investigated. Shuttle buses were used to help ease the rush-hour commuter chaos.</div></div>
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