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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vehicle-hits-crowd-filipino-festival-lapu-lapu-day-block-party-1.7519778Eleven people have been killed and multiple others injured after the driver of a black SUV slammed into a crowd Saturday evening at a street festival in Vancouver celebrating the contributions of the Filipino Canadian community, police say.
It happened shortly after 8 p.m. PT, as the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was winding down, after drawing up to 100,000 people through the day.
The vehicle that struck festival-goers approached the festival area from the west on East 43rd Avenue. It entered a small crowd, an enclosed area, and drove through the crowd. There were hundreds of festival-goers still on the street and multiple people were struck by the vehicle," Steve Rai, interim Vancouver police chief, told reporters on Sunday.
The person we have in custody does have a significant history of interactions with police and health-care professionals related to mental health," he told a briefing on Sunday.
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SheltieLover
(66,955 posts)Code for white magat!
malaise
(283,330 posts)Hmmmm.
SheltieLover
(66,955 posts)
Elessar Zappa
(16,330 posts)AZJonnie
(759 posts)Maybe they don't affiliate specifically with MAGA, but they're still the exact same type of folks.
barbtries
(30,352 posts)in any democratic country.
They're about to have an election and for Canada, we want the RED side to win.
SheltieLover
(66,955 posts)Some of our Canadian members have posted about their version of magats.
Also, unless police have released informaiton on the perp, who says the perp was from Canada?
AZJonnie
(759 posts)Nomenclature we've seen play out, ad nauseum.
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)Known to police and health care pros for mental illness.
Canada is not perfect, just better.
AZJonnie
(759 posts)Notice though that I did not make any sort of positive claim in that regard, but you ARE making one. What is the proof this guy is not a xenophobic wingnut? And let me also say that in no way, shape or form, are the statuses of 'extreme wingnuts' and 'Known to police and health care pros for mental illness' mutually exclusive, so AFAIK, I'm not 'proven wrong' by that observation. If you have more to share about what you know about this guy that would exclude this man from the 'wingnut' category, please feel free to share. I'm not there in CA, and I assume you are, and are probably getting more details than I am
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)Yes, you did make a positive claim, bassackwards backing into it to try to maintain "plausible deniability".
A poster wrote:
You wrote:
We like to jab at maga calling them mentally ill but that is not a realistic or useful explanation of anything maga.
AZJonnie
(759 posts)We'll see
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)MichMan
(14,970 posts)And there is zero proof from you or otherwise that he is. Until there is more known, it is all mindless speculation.
AZJonnie
(759 posts)Bernardo OTOH expressed that I am OUTRIGHT 'proven wrong'. His words. So I was inquiring as to what HIS proof was for claiming I'm 'proven wrong'. The observation that this happened at a specific, foreign-culture based event (as opposed to, say, Mardi Gras), along with the 'troubled individual' storyline, made me suspicious. I don't think unreasonably so, but nonetheless, I did not CLAIM that 'I knew', whereas Bernardo did claim to know. Hence my question. There are really just a couple of basic logical syllogisms in play here, that I would hope I would not have to explain, but it seems so
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)AZJonnie
(759 posts)But 'proven wrong' means something different
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)Okay, I see better now how the conversation went.
AZJonnie
(759 posts)and then when the authorities asked why and the criminal told them 'man I hate all spics and beaners, I wanna to rid the world of them all!' they'd probably send 'em to the mental health folks for an assessment. I mean, I hope they would, really. So this is what I meant by both things could be true.
SheltieLover
(66,955 posts)
LauraInLA
(1,813 posts)SheltieLover
(66,955 posts)
LauraInLA
(1,813 posts)that the description used by eyewitnesses was not a white guy, though.
SheltieLover
(66,955 posts)
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)The guy is in custody. Read the thread.
You make a big mistake if you think Canadians behave like maga or make automatic assumptions generally. Of course a few do, but not most.
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)chouchou
(1,797 posts)Another small side of me is thinking like a partial monster ...
SheltieLover
(66,955 posts)
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)Demovictory9
(35,468 posts)Europe had a car attack a few months ago..didn't have the bollards deployed
All street festivals..black them
Bernardo de La Paz
(54,951 posts)The event was over. The last musical act had left the stage. Vendors were packing up. But there were still crowds.
Demovictory9
(35,468 posts)
Prairie Gates
(4,923 posts)Fourteen people were killed in New Orleans on New Year's Eve, not counting the perp.
Demovictory9
(35,468 posts)Response to malaise (Original post)
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sheshe2
(91,556 posts)malaise
(283,330 posts)Enjoy your stay
mcar
(44,494 posts)
MichMan
(14,970 posts)Reports say his brother was murdered last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/lapu-lapu-killings-suspect-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-second-degree-murder-in-vancouver-9.6737566