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.

“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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    5 months ago

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

    I wonder what makes them confident of that. It certainly resembles a terrorist attack.

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    5 months ago

    I know it’s a slim chance and I’m going out on a limb here, but something tells me the driver was a white conservative.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

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

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    5 months ago

    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.