A surveillance camera set up at a north Edmonton home has captured images of a man police suspect is behind the door-to-door delivery of flyers promoting hatred.

The 30-second video released by the Edmonton Police Service hate crimes detail Wednesday shows someone who appears to be a black male wearing a hoodie walking up to an Evansdale house and dropping off a leaflet in the mailbox before returning to the sidewalk, presumably moving on to the next house.

Anti-Islamic flyers left in residential mailboxes were reported by upset residents across the city in October and early November. Police are conducting an investigation into the Criminal Code offence of wilful promotion of hatred.

Police said multiple residents have seen a suspect and provided investigators with a consistent description of a lone male. The reports are corroborated by the surveillance video taken on Oct. 22, police said.

The consistent suspect description and content of the flyers has investigators believing the same person is behind all of the incidents, police said.

The suspect is described as a black male with a medium build, about five-feet-eight to six-feet tall. He wears dark, bold-framed glasses, a dark, hooded sweatshirt, two-tone skateboard-style shoes and a backpack.

Police ask anyone with information to call 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 orwww.tipsubmit.com/start.htm

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