A 39-year-old Ottawa man is facing several charges after police say he yelled racial slurs and profanities while wielding a knife and exposed his genitals.
The incident happened Monday night around 8:20 p.m. at Blake Boulevard and Lacasse Avenue in Vanier, police said.
The man confronted a group of people who were in a car without provocation and shouted racial slurs at them, police said.
“The man then briefly left the scene returning moments after, armed with a knife and continuing to yell racial slurs and profanities at bystanders,” police said in a news release. “At one point, the man exposed his genitals.”
The man was arrested and no one was injured.
Dwayne Kenneth Lawless, 39, is charged with causing a disturbance, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon, committing an indecent act, indecent exposure to a person under 16, and two counts of harassment.
He is due in court on Tuesday.
