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A Cambridge, Ont. father wants answers after his adult son, who has autism, was arrested and charged with assault after an encounter with a jogger.

On Sept. 18, at around 8:50 a.m., Soren Martin was walking on the sidewalk along Jamieson Parkway on his way to catch the bus that takes him to work.

“I was walking, walking too fast,” Soren recalled.

The 48-year-old then knocked a woman jogging on the sidewalk.

“I tripped her up,” he added.

According to Soren’s father Glaspa Martin, Soren later said he did not purposely run into the jogger. Glaspa confirmed Soren walks quickly and would have been focused on getting to work.

“It was an accident,” Glaspa told CTV News. “And Soren indicated that, over and over again: it was an accident.”

Soren got on his bus, but when it stopped at the Cambridge Centre transit terminal shortly after 9 a.m., he was arrested by officers with the Waterloo Regional Police Service.

“Police officers arrested me. Taken …

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