A Native teen tells CBC News that he witnessed two men attacking a Native woman in what is being investigated as a hate crime in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The 19-year-old Oji-Cree youth had a confrontation with two men on the night of December 27. He ran away and hid in the bushes and later saw them drag a Native woman into their van.

The unidentified teen says the men yelled racial slurs at him. They are accused of doing the same to the 36-year-old woman, who was sexually assaulted.

“If I knew what they were gonna do to that lady afterwards, I would have done something,” the teen tells CBC.

The teen said he hasn't shared his story with police because he doesn't trust them.

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