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ItsjustMe

(11,239 posts)
Wed Sep 14, 2022, 06:28 PM Sep 2022

Woman arrested after video shows her attacking indigenous group for not wearing bras

https://www.rawstory.com/indigenous-women-attacked-bras-video/

A Canadian woman is facing several charges after she was caught on video assaulting a group of indigenous women for allegedly not wearing bras, the Ottawa Citizen reports.

Officers responded to the scene after a woman identified Laura Gagnon said she had been assaulted. In a video uploaded to Twitter by Gagnon, she can be seen being accosted by another woman for not wearing a bra.

Gagnon, who belongs to a the Anishinaabe group, can be heard in the video asking the attacker why she was targeting an indigenous woman and "body-shaming" her for not wearing a bra on unceded Algonquin territory. As the International Business Times points out, the Anishinaabe people never ceded or legally signed away their lands to the government.

Gagnon's video ended up being recorded from inside a car while she was cornered by a mob that included the woman who previously assaulted her. The mob reportedly took her phone away.



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Woman arrested after video shows her attacking indigenous group for not wearing bras (Original Post) ItsjustMe Sep 2022 OP
well I am speechless,,,,, KarenS Sep 2022 #1
Are people going absolute nuts? WTH? is this? Canadians getting as crazy as Americans? brush Sep 2022 #2
Really? Why isn't Karen wearing a girdle? OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #3
She could have really used a better-fitting bra, herself. Wingus Dingus Sep 2022 #6
my thoughts exactly debsy Sep 2022 #9
Didn't look Rebl2 Sep 2022 #11
The hefty gal who climbed on the hood of the car--- Wingus Dingus Sep 2022 #4
My thought too. The whole thing looked like a zombie movie. Gaugamela Sep 2022 #5
The way she sat on the car, and the others, standing and watching... Wingus Dingus Sep 2022 #7
Yes, definitely like a zombie from a horror movie. Sky Jewels Sep 2022 #8
Scary stuff out there...... MyOwnPeace Sep 2022 #10
Damn Solly Mack Sep 2022 #12
OMFG. I hope that nutcase is convicted of assault, property damage, and a hate crime. SunSeeker Sep 2022 #13

OAITW r.2.0

(24,570 posts)
3. Really? Why isn't Karen wearing a girdle?
Wed Sep 14, 2022, 06:42 PM
Sep 2022

She ought to be be critiquing her own body imagine. Just another racist masquerading as a concerned citizen/

debsy

(530 posts)
9. my thoughts exactly
Wed Sep 14, 2022, 08:01 PM
Sep 2022

"it is disgusting that you are not wearing a bra", says the woman whose breasts were hanging out of her shirt and plumber shorts were in full view of all who were subjected to seeing her sitting on the hood of the car of the woman she seemed to be threatening.

Rebl2

(13,544 posts)
11. Didn't look
Wed Sep 14, 2022, 09:07 PM
Sep 2022

like she had a bra or underwear on (woman on the car hood). So I don’t understand why she would attack another woman that wasn’t wearing a bra. Very confusing to me.

Sky Jewels

(7,133 posts)
8. Yes, definitely like a zombie from a horror movie.
Wed Sep 14, 2022, 06:54 PM
Sep 2022

I hope she becomes "famous" for life, and not in a good way.

SunSeeker

(51,664 posts)
13. OMFG. I hope that nutcase is convicted of assault, property damage, and a hate crime.
Thu Sep 15, 2022, 03:46 AM
Sep 2022

I am sure her sitting on the hood left big dent.

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