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  • 23-04-2018 7:59pm
    #1
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    housetypeb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    Eh?


  • #3
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    housetypeb wrote: »
    Eh?

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


  • #4
    garbo speaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 300 ✭✭garbo speaks


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


  • #5
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    garbo speaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 300 ✭✭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.


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  • #7
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    449053.jpeg


  • #9
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users Posts: 3,193 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    I reckon it was a white supremacist KKK Trump supporter.

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


  • #10
    OneEightSeven
    Registered Users Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven


    Here he is being apprehended.

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


  • #11
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,236 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    very brave cop there


  • #14
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


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


  • #15
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,848 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    stunmer
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭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


  • #17
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,825 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


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


  • #19
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    BBC reporting 9 people dead


  • #20
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭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


  • #24
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


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


  • #25
    backspin.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭backspin.


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


  • #26
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_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.


  • #27
    2 Scoops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 915 ✭✭✭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


  • #28
    2 Scoops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 915 ✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    BabyCheeses
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,299 ✭✭✭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.


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