A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least nine people and injuring others.
Some of those attending the festival helped arrest the suspect at the scene, who police identified as a 30-year-old man.
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“It’s something you don’t expect to see in your lifetime,” Kris Pangilinan, a Toronto-based journalist, told Canadian public broadcaster CBC. “[The driver] just slammed the pedal down and rammed into hundreds of people. It was like seeing a bowling ball hit — all the bowling pins and all the pins flying up in the air.”
He continued, “It was like a war zone… There were bodies all over the ground.”
I wonder what makes them confident of that. It certainly resembles a terrorist attack.
It means they double checked and the driver was definitely white
He wasn’t. I’m not going to post his name or race here, but he has been charged and his name made public.
I’ve seen the name now and you are right, Sorry, I’ve been superficial
Looks Filipino to me.
This is the kind of uninformed bile that bots and provocateurs use, might want to rethink that readyfireaim joke.
Dude might have been drunk. If it isn’t intentional, it’s usually a case of too drunk or too old.
Or plain old mental illness
Severe, severe mental illness. He wasn’t drunk or old.
What was the mental illness?
They haven’t released his diagnosis but he had been struggling with paranoia and delusions prior. Also a long history of mental health/police contact and very recent calls from his family to hospital to get him help. This was entirely preventable if the mental health supports were adequately available.
What are you talking about, the victims weren’t white?
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There’s a very specific rubric for what counts as a terrorist attack in Canada. Probably the level of calculation and premeditation involved was a factor and that he’s not a part of an ideologically organized group that is trying to influence behaviour of a government or political body.
A spontaneous hate crime made against a population is technically not a terrorist attack by Canadian definition. To count you have to have done it for a narrow slice of very specific reasons.