Toronto

cfuserkildare

Does anyone know the Status of the Toronto incident today?
Is it being treated as an act of Terror?
Or an Accident?
Or a Home Grown Nutter?

housetypeb

Eh?

verycool

housetypeb wrote: »

Eh?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/suspect-in-custody-after-van-strikes-people-on-toronto-sidewalk-1.3898118

garbo speaks

Sssh! You can't talk about terrorist attacks anymore- everything is perfect in PC Canada :rolleyes:

Assetbacked

These are from twitter; the alleged suspect being arrested and the alleged van that ran over people.

https://ibb.co/cD5hbx
https://ibb.co/d5mYic

Edit: point made finally.

garbo speaks

Assetbacked wrote: »

These are from twitter; the alleged suspect being arrested and the alleged van that ran over people.

Ok, I get it.

Mint Sauce

Assetbacked wrote: »

These are from twitter; the alleged suspect being arrested and the alleged van that ran over people.

https://ibb.co/cD5hbx
https://ibb.co/d5mYic

Same in the article.

Same in the article.

Same in the article.

Same in the article.

Assetbacked

TomSweeney

I reckon it was a white supremacist KKK Trump supporter.

Trump voters and Brexit voters are partly to blame for this.

OneEightSeven

Here he is being apprehended.

https://twitter.com/BoyerMichel/status/988492132636913665

Hande hoche!

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Here he is being apprehended.

https://twitter.com/BoyerMichel/status/988492132636913665

Considerable restraint by the police. Imagine their neighbors would have ventilated him.

Danzy

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Does anyone know the Status of the Toronto incident today?
Is it being treated as an act of Terror?
Or an Accident?
Or a Home Grown Nutter?

Bill Bratton former NYPD Comm. said his contacts in Toronto said it is viewed as a terror attack, suspect also known to the police.

Another diversity incident.

donegaLroad

very brave cop there

Pauliedragon

I miss the days when you would come across a beaking story like this and be shocked.

Zebra3

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Does anyone know the Status of the Toronto incident today?
Is it being treated as an act of Terror?
Or an Accident?
Or a Home Grown Nutter?

Will all depend on the colour of the attacker's skin.

stunmer

Zebra3 wrote: »

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Does anyone know the Status of the Toronto incident today?
Is it being treated as an act of Terror?
Or an Accident?
Or a Home Grown Nutter?

Will all depend on the colour of the attacker's skin.

Surely the attacker skin color is irrelevant. Terrorism is about motivation

Beanntraigheach

Pauliedragon wrote: »

I miss the days when you would come across a beaking story like this and be shocked.

Yep. Not too long ago all the news channels would have been intensively covering this event live.
I just checked Sky News a moment ago - they're more interested in a woman having squeezed out another sprog.

gmisk

Policy chief was on there and I think he said 9 dead and 16 injured

godtabh

BBC reporting 9 people dead

Assetbacked

Christ almighty, 9 people killed for doing absolutely nothing other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And plenty others with potentially life-changing injuries (broken legs, arms etc). It is infuriating how random something like this is. Terrorism full stop. The motivation for the terrorist is unknown as of yet but an individual who is willing to carry out an act like this does not deserve to walk the streets again or live in any way a comfortable life for their remaining years.

mattser

donegaLroad wrote: »

very brave cop there

WTF is it with the three in the background :eek: ? Sauntering along. I'd be slipping in my own doo doo trying to get out of there fast.

Richard Hillman

It was a rental truck, so very likely intentional. As per the video it looked like he kept on reaching and pointing to give the impression he had a gun (Suicide by cop). The police man was having none of it.

wexie

Richard Hillman wrote: »

It was a rental truck, so very likely intentional. As per the video it looked like he kept on reaching and pointing to give the impression he had a gun (Suicide by cop). The police man was having none of it.

Yeah that's not nearly as effective in Canada as it would be in the US

_Dara_

Damn, for a long time it just mentioned injuries; I was hoping it would stay that way.

backspin.

Only two pages on this and many Irish have family in Toronto. We are becoming desensitized to terror attacks.

_Dara_

backspin. wrote: »

Only two pages on this and many Irish have family in Toronto. We are becoming desensitized to terror attacks.

For a good few hours the headlines just mentioned injuries. I reckon many don’t realise that people have died.

2 Scoops

Probably terrorism, sounds middle eastern in the car video

https://twitter.com/NatashaFatah/status/988486858031222785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Flondon%2F2018%2F04%2F23%2Fmultiple-injuries-white-van-hits-pedestrians-near-major-toronto-transport-hub%2F&tfw_creator=BreitbartNews&tfw_site=BreitbartNews

2 Scoops

Walter Bishop wrote: »

It's terrorism no matter what colour his skin is.

Who said anything about Skin color? Anyway he's been named, Alek Minassian. He was known to Police.

BlaasForRafa

2 Scoops wrote: »

Probably terrorism, sounds middle eastern in the car video

another truck of peace.

I've a cousin that works in downtown toronto, haven't heard any word yet but I'm presuming that means she's ok.

BabyCheeses

This will be a fun one.

Comes across a bit crazy with the weird stand off with the police. Concerned locals who did what they had to tend to keep it more around a mosque so that looks unlikely. Could always be the classic but they tend to have a plan once they get out of the truck/van. Option 1 and 3 have my bets so far.

dublinman1990

Along with the 9 already killed; there are also 16 people injured. I hope more people don't die because of this.

The suspect in custody is already well known to authorities in Toronto.
Attack was known to be deliberate according to police.
Fire Dept says the van covered between 1/2 a mile and a mile to carry out the attack.

Pepefrogok

Again :-(

garbo speaks

Muslim I'll bet...

yerwanthere123

Crazy how the Nice attack triggered so many copycats. All those poor people losing their lives for no reason at all.

tradhead

If it’s any help to those with family or friends in downtown Toronto, this happened in North York so about 18km from the city centre.

I heard about it on the news at work when the news broke first (my office is downtown) and then nothing was really said about it at all, it was weird. It was only when I got home and looked online that I realized that nine people had been killed.

Hopefully an isolated incident anyway, I thought we were safe enough up here rather than in the US but sure I suppose nowhere is immune now.

The_Kew_Tour

Known to Police and all ffs.

9 family and friends now have funerals to go to.

**** off like

King George VI

The driver's name is Alek Minassian according to CBS, Canadian media and a few others. CBS the classy bastards linked to his LinkedIn page.

That's an Armenian name as far as I can tell. Armenia is predominantly not a Muslim country so I doubt that has anything to do with it. Probably just a whackjob as opposed to some politically charged murder spree.

Funny comment from Reddit: Left wing idiots hoping for “white guy”, right wing idiots hoping for “brown guy”, all idiots now trying to figure out what color Armenians are.

lol

Bubbaclaus

Looks like it was simply a mentally ill software developer. Shame his mental illness wasn't looked after better.

Billy86

King George VI wrote: »

The driver's name is Alek Minassian according to CBS, Canadian media and a few others. CBS the classy bastards linked to his LinkedIn page.

That's an Armenian name as far as I can tell. Armenia is predominantly not a Muslim country so I doubt that has anything to do with it. Probably just a whackjob as opposed to some politically charged murder spree.

Funny comment from Reddit: Left wing idiots hoping for “white guy”, right wing idiots hoping for “brown guy”, all idiots now trying to figure out what color Armenians are.

lol

Apparently he had a bit of a hang up on the Elliot Rodgers shootings from a few years back which were neither white supremacist nor Muslim but a frustrated hatred of women and sexually active men though at this point it could be anything. As you said, best not to jump to conclusions either side like happened with previous terrorist attack in Canada last year.

Seriously great job by the cop to not shoot him in a tense, split second situation when he was trying to make out he had a gun though.

kunst nugget

ricero wrote: »

Surprised this hasnt happened earlier. Canada is weak and Trudea is a snowflake liberal.

Canada like many other western states need to get tough on hardline islam.

You tell them, ricero!

Waiting to actually find out what happened before passing judgement is only for libtard, snowflake pussies!!! Something something Trump rules! Something something Hillary something something religion of peace!?!?

Billy86

Unconfirmed, but apparently he posted this on his Facebook in the last few days.

Manic Moran

What the hell are Chads and Stacys?

This guy seriously run over two dozen folks because he couldn't get laid?!

Canis Lupus

Manic Moran wrote: »

What the hell are Chads and Stacys?

This guy seriously run over two dozen folks because he couldn't get laid?!

Muslims do it because allah.... or something. Any reason to drive over people is ultimately crazy/stupid/incomprehensible. I suppose not getting laid is as good as any.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Manic Moran wrote: »

What the hell are Chads and Stacys?

This guy seriously run over two dozen folks because he couldn't get laid?!

Good looking people it seems.

Billy86

Manic Moran wrote: »

What the hell are Chads and Stacys?

This guy seriously run over two dozen folks because he couldn't get laid?!

The whole incel movement is just layer upon layer of pathetic self pitying and blaming everyone else for one's shortcomings, I'd reckon Chad and Stacy are spiteful names for any sexual active male or female since they are stereotypical high school quarterback/cheerleader type names o what you'd see in teen movies, and the incel group tend to be utterly obsessed with the whole "alpha male" nonsense, on the basis that they're not the "alpha male" so it's not their fault that women don't like them (and has absolutely nothing to do with their many complexes and insecurities, hatred of the opposite sex, legitimate calls for rape slaves to be an actual thing because basically "men deserve sex", and so on and so on). They're kind of an interesting lot to read up on, but only if you have an interest in that sense for dark, morbid cults that make you feel like pouring bleach in your ear after.

Still, the above is unconfirmed so only speculation at this point. The cause for this attack could turn out to be pretty much anything.

Manic Moran

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Muslims do it because allah.... or something. Any reason to drive over people is ultimately crazy/stupid/incomprehensible. I suppose not getting laid is as good as any.

Fair point.

Zebra3

stunmer wrote: »

Surely the attacker skin color is irrelevant. Terrorism is about motivation

That was my point...

vetinari

Christ, could the anti Islam people go back to whatever dungeon they were inhabiting. The 2016 census said there was 63 thousand muslims in Ireland. That is ****ing tiny. I live in Boston these days, why am I encountering the same trolls on an Irish forum? I agree that there is a disproportionate number of nutjob Islamic terrorists but wait for the ****ing facts.

Graces7

backspin. wrote: »

Only two pages on this and many Irish have family in Toronto. We are becoming desensitized to terror attacks.

Just woken to this and straight to the phone as I have family in many parts of Canada.

Thankfully all safe. But they now say 10 dead.

Horrific and no way can we let ourselves be desensitized .

Yes a kind of pattern develops. Horror , then make sure all we know and love are safe.

Then real reaction sets in. Utter shock

baylah17

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

another truck of peace.

I've a cousin that works in downtown toronto, haven't heard any word yet but I'm presuming that means she's ok.

Pepefrogok wrote: »

Again :-(

garbo speaks wrote: »

Muslim I'll bet...

Wrong.
Perhaps next time you will wait for the facts before letting your agenda run riot.
Condolences to those involved would have been better

Samuel T. Cogley

10 confirmed dead. So sad.