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A member of a Montreal-area gym who hit another member for making too much noise while powerlifting has been barred from the facility.

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As well, a staff member has been suspended in connection with the incident, said Craig Johnson, head of operations for Buzzfit gyms, on Sunday evening.

A video of the incident, posted on a YouTube channel on Thursday evening, received more than 944,000 views by Sunday evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=hJmVlt98FLA

Nineteen-year-old Charles Lalonde was midset, lifting 350 pounds, and caught off guard when his assailant approached and, visibly agitated, appeared to kick the barbell out of his hands and shove Lalonde against the wall of the gym, all the while yelling at him to “get out.”

The man who assaulted him is not a Buzzfit employee, Johnson said, and he was not well known to staff. “We had to go through video footage” to identify him.