A man who drew a swastika and wrote “Heil Hitler” on the wall of a business in downtown St. Catharines as a form of protest to pandemic restrictions will spend the next two weeks behind bars. A man who drew a swastika and wrote “Heil Hitler” on the wall of a business in downtown St. Catharines as a form of protest to pandemic restrictions will spend the next two weeks behind bars. “Our charter and everything we stand for is founded on respect for all religions, all ethnicities, all races, all people and the swastika and ‘Heil Hitler,’ when that’s publicly displayed, diminishes and dehumanizes people within this community who are no different, frankly, than you or me or anyone else,” Judge Deborah Calderwood told Alan Halstead in an Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines, Wednesday. Halstead, 29, was sentenced on four charges including mischief and assault with a weapon. The sentence takes into account the time he had spent in presentence custody, which was the equivalent of almost five months.
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