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Another ugly London encounter with seeming racial overtones, another investigation.

London police say they’re investigating whether a standoff at a north-end grocery store captured on video will be treated as a hate crime.

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Police were called to the Sobey’s grocery store on Adelaide Street North just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

A Facebook video of the encounter shows a man in a red t-shirt trying to block a man in a black hoodie from leaving the store and referring to him as an “illegal alien.”

“I want to leave, stop assaulting me,” the man in the black hoodie is heard saying in the 30-second video, as the other man – holding a cell phone to his ear – tries to block him from leaving the area near the checkout counters.

“Let’s go, you can’t make a citizen’s arrest,” a woman is heard telling the red-shirted man.

“Don’t touch him, why are you touching him?” the same woman is heard asking the man.

The video, which appears to have been shot before police arrived, shows neither the prelude to the altercation nor how it ended.