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.”

  • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    91·
    18 hours ago

    In this case I have too little insight. But it’s quite clear how biased these reports are in Germany. Anyone not absolutely German is immediately a terrorist and every white, German dude is a confused loner. Media never suspects that mental issues based on trauma from war and refugee journeys might be a good reason or that guys voting for right wing extremists and killing “woke” people might have anything to do with their political views.

    • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      18 hours ago

      Well there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest this was a mental health issue.

      • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        14 hours ago

        The thing is before evidence comes up we see the issue with reporting:

        • if black it is gang activity until proven otherwise
        • if brown it is terrorism until proven otherwise
        • if white it is mental health until proven otherwise
        • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          12 hours ago

          ok but there is evidence now. For instance, the family has tried to have the perp checked into a mental hospital 2 dozen times over the last year