Vaughan woman, who shares ‘hate incident’ video, wants community’s support

Thestar.com
Nov. 18, 2021
Dina Al-Shibeeb

Sabrina Guo, a single mother, has lived peacefully at her Thornhill-Vaughan home for the past five years. However, Guo now wants to draw the community’s attention to an Oct. 21 incident that left her family, including her seven-year-old son and his grandmother, shaken.

York Regional Police are investigating what they described as a “hate incident,” said Guo. The Vaughan Citizen has supplied YRP with the case incident but hasn't heard back from police.

Guo had shared with the Vaughan Citizen videos including one showing what appears to be abusive and threatening behaviour to her family -- mother and son -- after retrieving camera recordings from her neighbour.

One video shows a white man on a bike stopping at her driveway in broad daylight, hurling abusive language at her mother and son, telling them, “I will f****** kill you.” Not only that, he was seen kicking the car.

“He started to scream and use his feet to kick my car,” Guo said.

Guo wasn’t at home during the incident but was running an errand five minutes away, and returned home when her mother called.

She immediately called the police.

Later in the evening, after arriving home from her neighbour's home to receive some of their camera recording of the incident, she found the damage that had been done to her car.

In the second video she shared, a man is seen walking to her driveway in the dark toward her car.

Guo said the car ended up with two punctured tires, and two back lights and brakes damaged.

“We know how he looks like,” Guo said, adding that most likely he is living around the neighbourhood.

Guo’s home is now backed with cameras but the incident left her family traumatized.

Two weeks after the incident, her family cooked at their home but at nighttime they stayed at their friend’s home.

Guo wanted to share what had happened to her family to garner further community support and find the suspect.

Guo is of Chinese descent, and her mother doesn't speak much English.

In April, Vaughan Coun. Sandra Racco has urged people not to be mere bystanders amid an uptick in anti-Asian racism as Ontario experienced its third COVID-19 wave.

Canadian statistics also show that women are also disproportionately impacted.