{"id":19856,"date":"2020-11-11T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=19856"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:00:33","slug":"community-vigil-held-in-memory-of-anthony-aust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/community-vigil-held-in-memory-of-anthony-aust\/","title":{"rendered":"Community vigil held in memory of Anthony Aust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This Sunday, a vigil was held for Anthony Aust, a 23-year-old Ottawa man who died after falling from the 12th story window of his family's apartment building during a police encounter on Oct. 7. Aust's family was in attendance at the outdoor vigil near their home on Jasmine Crescent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"[I'm] devastated. However, it is what it is, [you know]. And I just have to continue,\" said Nhora Aust, Anthony's mother, in an interview with CHUO after the vigil.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the encounter, police used the tactical force no-knock <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/chief-says-ottawa-police-will-continue-to-review-practice-of-dynamic-entries-in-tactical-raids\">\"dynamic entry\" where 12 heavily armed officers entered the apartment by breaking down the door with smoke grenades. <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the practice has been criticized, it is still being used. Nhora said the family couldn't speak on any matters regarding the incident due to the ongoing investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 100 people attended the vigil organized by the Justice for Abdirahman (JFA) Coalition on Nov. 8. Mourning community members gathered near the family's apartment building from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. There were several speakers, including<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a community activist with a spoken word poem written for BIPOC mothers. Ifrah Yusuf, co-chair of the JFA, was also among the speakers at the vigil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anthony's mother, Nhora Aust, said it warmed her heart to see how many people were touched by the matter. For each year of Anthony's life, 23 roses were left at the site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is CHUO's interview with Nhora Aust:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, a vigil was held for Anthony Aust, a 23-year-old Ottawa man who died after falling from the 12th story window of his family&#8217;s apartment building during a police encounter on Oct. 7. Aust&#8217;s family was in attendance at the outdoor vigil near their home on Jasmine Crescent.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;[I&#8217;m] devastated. However, it is what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":19859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[3000,3001,3002,1177],"radio":[1290],"origine":[267,269,1571],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19856"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=19856"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=19856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}