Vancouver Suv drives into crowd 9 dead

[mick987]

A man drives his Suv into a crowd of people celebrating the Lapu Lapu festival. The suspect is known to the police. It just does not stop the madness of some people.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d48erzg7lt

[chrisgtx]

I’ve just switched to the news now. A big press conference. Blaming a person known to have mental health issues long story short.

[SlimJim16v]

Just seen this on the news, terrible. 11 dead, youngest 5 oldest 65 and must be many more injured looking at the damage to the SUV.

Police will have to physically block vehicle access to festivals now.

[milesgiles]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g271y53z6o.amp

Suspect named

As usual it’s ‘mental illness’ as if that and terrorism are somehow mutually exclusive

[s1962a]

Police said the suspect was known to them prior to the attack.

Why is this so common when these attacks occur? They must not be doing a good job if so many of these crazy terrorist slip through the net.

[popegregory]

s1962a said:

Police said the suspect was known to them prior to the attack.

Why is this so common when these attacks occur? They must not be doing a good job if so many of these crazy terrorist slip through the net.

Because there’s a lot of people known to the police, and until something happens there’s nothing for them to act upon.

[pghstochaj]

s1962a said:

Police said the suspect was known to them prior to the attack.

Why is this so common when these attacks occur? They must not be doing a good job if so many of these crazy terrorist slip through the net.

Are you really asking that question?

Isn't it really obvious that people that do bad things are frequently known to the police as they have previously done bad things?

[bitchstewie]

s1962a said:

Police said the suspect was known to them prior to the attack.

Why is this so common when these attacks occur? They must not be doing a good job if so many of these crazy terrorist slip through the net.

How many people do you think would be locked up if the criteria was simply "known to them prior to the attack"?

I don't know the Canadian legal system but it's incredibly difficult to Police based on what someone might do.

You only have to look on here to see the reaction to people being spoken to about "thought crimes" or to see attitudes to "why are the Police involved when no crime has been committed" and shock horror when some appalling act like this is committed people (often the same ones) inevitably ask "why didn't the Police do anything?".