TWO men brandishing firearms and threatening a man in the parking lot of the Dashmesh Cultural Centre in Calgary’s northeast were arrested last Thursday and are facing charges, according to media reports.

Police seized two firearms that they said were obtained illegally. The two men are known to police.

On Sunday, a South Asian radio’s news director and show host was assaulted outside a banquet hall and the incident was caught on video.

Police told the media that the victim was hit in the head but was not seriously hurt.

Police are investigating if the attack on the journalist was connected to his reporting on Thursday’s incident.

The victim is Rishi Nagar, news director for RED FM Calgary.

The Calgary media reported that surveillance video shows two men following Nagar out of a banquet hall. There appears to be a short conversation before one man starts punching Nagar. Someone intervenes and the two men take off in a vehicle.

Nagar said that the men told him they were upset with the coverage of last week’s arrests at the Dashmesh Culture Centre.

The men have yet to be arrested.

Nagar told the media that the assault was “a brazen attempt to intimidate, to silence and to prevent a free press from doing its job.”

He said that his doctor says his injuries may lead to “retinal detachment.”

Nagar defiantly asserted: “These cowardly actions will not deter me or my colleagues from continuing our work. They can break my eye, not the resolve.”

Regarding the Dashmesh Culture Centre incident, RED FM said on X that according to the statement they received from Calgary Police, Gursewak Singh is charged with pointing a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, contravention of the Firearms Act, and threats to cause death or bodily harm.

The second person, Sukhpreet Singh, faces the same charges except for ‘pointing a firearm.’