Vehicle attack in Toronto

[veggieburger]

Too early to tell what this is exactly, but almost a dozen dead and more injured in our city.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/10-dea...fied-1.3898118

[ntb1001]

Unbelievable, and very sad.
I drove through the area today only a few hours before it happened. I am in complete shock about this.



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[xnetter]

Disgusting. Suspect even tried the "suicide by cop" route after it happened but was apprehended instead. Sad tragedy, like all the other events like it.

KJ

[GonaSovereign]

Note the cop, who took the guy down without firing his gun. The entire country would have given him a pass for putting a round or two into that guy, and yet he didn't.

That's the only positive. Well, that and not too many people seem to have used it as an excuse to blame whatever political/social group sits across from them.

[Gsinill]

Originally Posted by GonaSovereign

Note the cop, who took the guy down without firing his gun. The entire country would have given him a pass for putting a round or two into that guy, and yet he didn't.

That's the only positive. Well, that and not too many people seem to have used it as an excuse to blame whatever political/social group sits across from them.

+1,000 on both statements

[Spdntrxi]

Keeping him alive is only a positive if they can figure out the motives and if he had any help. After that throw him in the street an run him down.

[jet sanchez]

I am a little shook up, I used to live on the corner where at least one person was hit, Parkview and Yonge. I know that neighbourhood really well, it is such a fantastic place to live, sad to see such mayhem.

I think, as noted above, the officer's actions are commendable, I think it shows Toronto at it's best.

[colker]

Originally Posted by GonaSovereign

Note the cop, who took the guy down without firing his gun. The entire country would have given him a pass for putting a round or two into that guy, and yet he didn't.

That's the only positive. Well, that and not too many people seem to have used it as an excuse to blame whatever political/social group sits across from them.

Good call.

[Mikej]

No comment on the cop not taking this turd off of the planet.

[FlashUNC]

Vengeance isn't justice. Killing a vile, horrid person sends the wrong message about the society that purports to hold itself tona higher standard than the man who uses a van to mow people down.

Eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

Vengeance isn't justice. Killing a vile, horrid person sends the wrong message about the society that purports to hold itself tona higher standard than the man who uses a van to mow people down.

Eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.

Agree..However, If this had happened in 'anytown', USA, methinks the guy would have been history. Maybe info about this guy, the whys and wherefores, and maybe gain some info about how to prevent it in the future, along with how he got a handgun..ya know, due process?..tough with the rhetoric that comes out in the US sometimes by 'some'..

[Llewellyn]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

Vengeance isn't justice. Killing a vile, horrid person sends the wrong message about the society that purports to hold itself tona higher standard than the man who uses a van to mow people down.

Eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.

+1

[Black Dog]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Agree..However, If this had happened in 'anytown', USA, methinks the guy would have been history. Maybe info about this guy, the whys and wherefores, and maybe gain some info about how to prevent it in the future, along with how he got a handgun..ya know, due process?..tough with the rhetoric that comes out in the US sometimes by 'some'..

As far as it is known he did not have a handgun, just an object in his hand that looked like a gun, sort of. If he had a gun in his hand he would have been shot by the officer.

[parris]

The a****le was trying for suicide by cop. The fact that he WASN'T shot is an anomaly. He clearly demonstrated that he was not only willing but capable of killing. I for one would really like to see the force continuum as well as that departments UOF policy.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by Black Dog

As far as it is known he did not have a handgun, just an object in his hand that looked like a gun, sort of. If he had a gun in his hand he would have been shot by the officer.

There are a lot of generalized North American similarities between Canadians and Americans, but the way this incident played out is one example of the various cultural differences between the two countries.

It's pretty clear that the perpetrator would have been shot to death immediately in the U.S. With gun ownership and crime so unbelievably high there, the automatic assumption by police appears to be that any person of interest in any sort of incident is highly likely to be armed and dangerous. It's always shoot first and ask questions later there.

Not so here.