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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.”

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No motive has been given, although police have said they are “confident” it was not an act of terrorism.

Let me guess? The suspect is white! I jest, but at this point it's probably likely the driver is a radicalized "conservative" than any other group.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago

No. East Asian looking male with a history of mental illness.

Most likely the political component of this tragedy is how the Socreds closed regional mental health institutions in the late 20th C, and subsequent governments just swept the whole thing under the rug while homelessness spread through the province and mentally disturbed and unsupported people lashed out in random ways.

Now you have dorks and bootlickers like Mayor Sims turning a health system failure into an opportunity for cruelty and repression. Punishment will be the talking point. They will roll with that, watch.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would you guess? You can literally just look it up. It's all over the news.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Because confirmation bias is a superior substitute to basic research, how else would one inform themselves about the world?

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