A disabled woman in a wheelchair has been assaulted and robbed on Vancouver's SkyTrain system and transit police have released surveillance video of two suspects that they hope will lead to arrests.
Police said that on May 10, two robbers took Cassie Campbell's iPad while she was on the platform at Metrotown station in Burnaby at about 9:30 p.m. PT, just as a westbound train was pulling in.
Campbell, in her early 20s, suffers from cerebral palsy, is deaf, and cannot speak, and the iPad was one of her only means of communication, police said.
Campbell followed the pair onto a SkyTrain to try to get her stolen device back. While on the train, the men pushed Campbell over in her wheelchair and ran off the train with the iPad at the next station, Royal Oak.
There were several witnesses and at least two of them chased the robbers through the station, but there have been no arrests.
Two young men can be seen running from the train immediately after the robbery and are later seen on separate surveillance video on a different level of the station with the Good Samaritans in pursuit.
"[The Good Samaritans] realize they just robbed that girl in the wheelchair," said Transit Police officer Doug Spencer. "You see these good citizens, this guy in his mid 60s, all start chasing these guys because once they are over the shock of what they saw they are responding like good citizens would."
Campbell sustained a black eye and bruises to her arm, nose and temple, but did not need to stay in hospital following the incident, police said.
The two suspects appear on the video to be in their 20s, but the poor quality of the images obscures many details.
"If they will rob lady in that situation, with cerebral palsy, in a wheelchair, what won't they do?" said Spencer. "They'll do anything, really."
Campbell, speaking in sign language, told CBC News it was a horrible experience, but she said she won't let it change the way she lives her life.
Source & video : http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...kytrain-disabled-assault-robbery.html?cmp=rss
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
wow a new low.. I hope they catch this guy soon.
