Toronto police have decided not to lay charges after CityNews reporter Shauna Hunt was targeted with vulgar verbal attacks on air after a Toronto FC soccer game.

“Our detectives have met with Ms. Hunt and our legal advice was that, in this case, charges were not appropriate,” Toronto police spokesperson Meaghan Gray said Wednesday afternoon.

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment declined to comment on Thursday on their own internal investigation into the incident, which took place on Mother’s Day outside BMO Field.

Hunt’s broadcast on Sunday was interrupted more than once with the same crude phrase.

On Wednesday, MLSE announced it had banned two Toronto FC fans from all MLSE facilities for at least a year after the incident.

Hydro One, which employed one of the men banned, Shawn Simoes, decided to terminate him.

Another man identified as Ryan Hart will be banned indefinitely.

In the United States, there is one instance of the police intervening in a similar situation.

An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man was fined $300 plus court costs in January after shouting an expletive into a TV reporter’s microphone as she was on the air.

Parker interrupted her broadcast on the Scranton city budget to utter a vulgar phrase referring to the female anatomy, and then ran away.

In that case, Tyrone Parker pleaded guilty to a summary offence of harassment.

Parker, a former Lackawanna College student, had been initially charged with the more serious crime of misdemeanor false swearing after he initially denied that he interrupted the broadcast.

After he realized he was caught on video, he admitted to the offence.