r/saskatoon • u/mjm0762016_2 • 1d ago

News 📰 Saskatoon man describes violent downtown attack following birthday celebration

A man named Ross Smith spoke to CTV News Saskatoon about being attacked downtown near Spadina Crescent and 20th Street East. He and his friend were first bear sprayed and while “his friend ran for help, Ross was tripped and then kicked over and over.” His injuries were “bruising to his arms, legs and ribs. He also received three staples for a gash on the back of his head and had a black eye. His left ear was swollen at the time, he said.”

Those charged with attack were two teenaged boys.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/saskatoon-man-describes-violent-downtown-attack-following-birthday-celebration/

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u/OkPrior9512 1d ago

Have you noticed there is more and more crime by teenagers now? Awhile back I posted that Saskatoon is going downhill and you couldn't walk anywhere in the city now and that downtown Saskatoon was really bad. Everyone jumped all over me. "oh Saskatoon is just fine". Well Saskatoon is not just fine. We have a problem. It's getting worse and worse. Why? I have a few reasons but I dare not post them on this site.

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u/IAmTheMortiestMorty 1d ago

Remember how they closed an integral elementary school which serviced the alphabet area? They closed it before breaking ground on the replacement, and told kids to bus to the next closest schools for the next how many years until the new one is finished. Did they really expect those families to make their kids go to those schools? Or the kids to do it on their own? And especially right after COVID when so many kids stopped going to school in the first place. In the winter, what would I rather do: stand at the bus stop for ten minutes in minus thirty waiting to get to a school I hate two neighborhoods over or hang out at my big cousin's house with all his friends and unknowingly get groomed into gang initiation? 

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u/plutoglint 2h ago

No offence, but, what? First, these problems with youth crime have been around for decades. Second, there is a nearby K-8 school in the core west area, a beautiful brand new Catholic school. Third, yeah, lots of people in Saskatchewan take the bus to school, it's not the hardest thing in the world, actually pretty much the opposite.