Men whose photos were published by Vancouver media feared public attacks
VANCOUVER — Two men and a teenager labelled “suspicious” because they were taking photos of a Vancouver mall feared being attacked on the street after local media published their images, says their doctor.
Dr. Weidong Yu of the Wellspring Clinic for Holistic Medicine says the trio are visiting from Manchester, England, so that two of them can be treated at his clinic for a visual disability.
The teenager and young adult suffer from a disorder that restricts their field of vision, making their sight blurry, and they take lots of photos in order to zoom in later and see everything more clearly, he said.
“You look at a shop, you look at a mountain, you see it. They don’t. So they take photos and then they enlarge the photo, and then they can see it.”