Copy Editor Ensnared in Toronto Beer Can Incident

A strange journalism twist.

Here’s a 2016 Major League Baseball post-season twist no one at Canada’s Postmedia expected.

On Wednesday, Toronto police circulated a photo of a man they said was responsible for the beer can tossed at Baltimore Orioles outfielder Hyun Soo Kim during the seventh inning of Tuesday’s American League Wild Card game. On Wednesday, that man confirmed via telephone that he was the man in the photo and was subsequently covered in the pages of Postmedia… as one of the company’s own:

Ken Pagan, who was at the game Tuesday on a night off from work, said he had been advised by his lawyer, Frank Genesee, not to speak about the incident but did suggest the police may have it wrong.

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