VANCOUVER—One person was taken into custody over what Vancouver Police say is part of a hate-crime investigation.
A statement from the department says officers from its Major Crime Section and Emergency Response Team executed a search warrant on a home in the 1800 block of East 1st Avenue on Thursday.
Police say that one person was taken into custody then released “pending completion of the investigation,” which is being conducted under a section of the Criminal Code on inciting hatred.
The person was not named by police, but a Corporations Canada database shows that the registered address of Samidoun—a pro-Palestinian group the federal government recently added to its list of terrorist groups—is located in the same block as the police search….