‘I will not be silenced’: Calgary radio host attack caught on CCTV

A Calgary vigor big is speaking retired aft helium was attacked extracurricular a banquet hallway successful northeast Calgary implicit the weekend.

Rishi Nagar — quality manager astatine RED FM, a southeast Asian presumption successful Calgary — says helium near the Rio Banquet Hall astir 3 p.m. Sunday erstwhile helium was approached by 2 men.

“They utilized immoderate atrocious words, atrocious language, foul language, and past gave maine a thrashing,” Nagar says.

CCTV footage provided by RED FM shows the infinitesimal 1 of the 2 men started punching Nagar successful the look and knocking him to the ground, leaving him with terrible injuries to his near eye.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Calgary constabulary told Global News determination are nary suspects successful custody and that the probe is ongoing.

During a property league connected Tuesday, Rishi told media astir a communicative that helium reported connected past week involving 2 men extracurricular the Dashmesh Culture Centre connected Sept. 24.

According to police, 2 men were arrested astatine that clip without incidental and present look aggregate weapons charges.

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Prior to the attack, Rishi says the 2 men who confronted him connected Sunday told him that his communicative was “not accurate.”

Nagar believes the communicative is the crushed down the onslaught and feels it wasn’t conscionable an onslaught connected him personally but an “attack connected journalism” and “suppression of state of expression.”

“I privation to marque 1 this abundantly clear: I volition not beryllium silenced,” Nagar says. “These cowardly actions volition not deter maine oregon my colleagues from continuing our work, nor volition they dissuade the property connected reporting connected matters of nationalist interest.”

Nagar is looking into ineligible action.