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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.”
Can mods do something about this thread? Everyone is engaging in friendly speculation that it was terrorism, because their lizard brains are remembering the Toronto attack. This was a mental health problem. The suspect was not a white supremacist. Go back to America please.
But Canada is in america.
north america
Yeah the same as the US and Mexico.
are you in north america? You may have a different dialect of english than north americans. This would explain the confusion. We do not consider ourselves americans, because american is the demonym of the US.
I’m in the US but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve played games online and had someone chastise me because they were also from america. Its kinda funny how you can get upset about being reminded of that while all those people get upset about being excluded.
Ah. I’m not especially upset or anything, I am just trying to explain the difference in terminology.
I wasn’t implying you were upset. I just found it humorous how one person can see something one way and another person who lives close by you can see it exactly the opposite. Not that recent events haven’t altered that ratio.
There was also an attack on the Afzaal family in London (Ontario) by a white nationalist with a pickup truck because they were visibly Muslim
In this case I have too little insight. But it’s quite clear how biased these reports are in Germany. Anyone not absolutely German is immediately a terrorist and every white, German dude is a confused loner. Media never suspects that mental issues based on trauma from war and refugee journeys might be a good reason or that guys voting for right wing extremists and killing “woke” people might have anything to do with their political views.
Well there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest this was a mental health issue.
The thing is before evidence comes up we see the issue with reporting:
ok but there is evidence now. For instance, the family has tried to have the perp checked into a mental hospital 2 dozen times over the last year
Report the comments.
While yes, ideally it would’ve been nice if it didn’t happen, but there’s not enough mods to police this place. It’s still better than news… That place is a complete shitshow.
They’re preemtively calling him radicalised, not realising how radicalised they’re themselves.