A 42-year-old man has been charged with aggravated assault over a street-preaching incident that turned violent in Vancouver’s West End.
A warrant has been issued for Dorre Love’s arrest, police said Thursday.
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Love and another man had been preaching on Davie Street on Aug. 22, police said, when they were confronted by a third man.
The third man, Justin Morissette, would later tell told Global News that the men had been preaching anti-LGBTQ2 hate through an “incredibly loud loudspeaker” when he confronted them.
The men refused to turn the speaker down, Morissette said, so he grabbed their microphone, prompting an altercation.
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“He put his leg behind my left leg and then with me still locked in a full nelson, wrenched my body against his leg until my leg snapped,” he said at the time.
A man identifying himself as Love later posted to social media that he’d been arrested for “preaching the gospel,” and claimed to be the victim of an assault himself.