Multiple videos posted online appear to show a woman removing bouquets of flowers from a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Toronto van attack.

The videos were recorded at Olive Square park, near the Yonge Street and Finch Avenue intersection where 10 were killed and more than a dozen injured by a speeding van on the afternoon of April 23.

The woman in the videos appears to be removing flowers from the wall of tributes to the victims, and stuffing them into a plastic bag.

Videos of the incident shared by Facebook user Jen Lorestani have racked up more than 100,000 views since Monday.

Lorestani says she worked with her friend, Monis Majoka, and one other person to capture the woman’s behaviour on video.

Lorestani says she and Majoka were walking through the park when they noticed the woman’s “disrespectful” and “inappropriate” behaviour. “It looked like she knew what she was doing and she didn’t care,” Lorestani told CTVNews.ca by phone on Wednesday.

The pair said they observed the woman for approximately 45 minutes in an effort to capture her actions on video. Majoka told CTVNews.ca that the woman appeared to understand that people were watching her and to be trying to avoid scrutiny.

“I don’t believe this was an honest mistake…She knew we were watching her and she would sneak around to the other side and wait for people to look away. That went on for a long time.”

Lorestani says both of them were getting very upset, and Majoka eventually decided to take it upon himself and confront the woman.

“A lot of people wouldn’t stand up and say anything,” she told CTVNews.ca.

One of the videos, which was recorded by Majoka, shows him confronting the woman directly.

“Excuse me, you know that’s unacceptable, right?” Majoka can be heard saying as he approaches the woman. “It’s a memorial.”

The woman, whose English appears to be weak, mutters “yeah,” in reply.

“You know what you’re doing, yeah?” Majoka says.

“Yeah… no, no,” the woman says.

“No what?” he asks.

“I put the… no, no,” she continues. “The flower, put the –”

“I think you should go home,” Majoka says, as he takes a vase out of her arms. “Before I call the police, I think you should go home.”

The woman responds with “Okay, no problem,” puts down her bags of flowers and walks away.

“I gave her a fair opportunity to walk away and when she did, I honoured my part of the deal,” Majoka told CTVNews.ca. He says he didn’t plan what he would say before he approached.

“I just didn’t want to startle her or come off as aggressive. I didn’t want to attack her, that’s not what this was about. But I wanted her to know this wasn’t a shopping centre, it is a place of grief. You don’t do this here.”

Majoka says he did not expect the posts to get so much attention. He was just intending to share it with his friends.

Lorestani says her mother and friends live in the area, and that it personally offended her to see someone appearing to disrespect the victims of last month’s tragedy.

“I was so upset," she said.

She added that she’s certain the woman wasn’t cleaning up the site or clearing away dead flowers, because she’s seen people doing that in the past. The cleaners always wear official vests to signal why they’re there, she said.

In a lengthy follow-up post on Wednesday, Lorestani says she didn’t call police out of concern that the woman might be mentally ill. She also fired back at critics suggesting she was promoting anti-immigrant rhetoric. “She was Persian… like me. I’m Persian,” she wrote. “That’s not what this is about though.”

Majoka says he doesn’t think there was a mental health issue at play and he didn’t think calling the police would solve the issue. Toronto police say they have not received any complaints in connection with the incident.

Lorestani said she’d like to see some security at the site so people can grieve in peace, although she acknowledges that might not be in the city budget.

City officials have said the makeshift memorial will be removed after 30 days, and that a more permanent tribute is in the works.