“It was not a consensual fight,” Haruun Ali, a community advocate and candidate running for Edmonton’s Ward Papastew in the upcoming municipal election, told CTV News Edmonton in an interview. “It was a brutal assault that took place as the boy was trying to come home from school,” he added. Ali said he found the entire press conference difficult to watch. “He has broken the trust with the community,” Ali shared. “The way that (fixing trust) starts is not by going onto TV and saying that this is a ‘consensual schoolyard fight,’” he said. “The way to go here, is to sit down with Pazo’s mother or bring someone that speaks her language and actually have a conversation.