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.”

  • Zacpod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8731·
    2 days 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.

    • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
      20·
      1 day ago

      Apparently it was mental health related, and he was apologizing when he came out of the car

    • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1543·
      1 day ago

      Video shows the person looks Asian. Probably conservative. I’d imagine a lot of Filipinos voted for Trump too.

      EDIT: Filipinos. Not Filipino Canadians.

      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        84·
        2 days ago

        Going out on a limb that most of the Filipinos in that crowd didn’t vote for Trump, being that it happened in Canada

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          Now I’m curious as to how many people outside the US vote for American candidates as write-in votes.

        • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
          24·
          1 day ago

          I mean, they’re still probably right that a lot of Filipinos probably voted for Trump still. Just not many in that crowd probably. And very unlikely to be “most”

      • BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        2 days ago

        Seems like people already believe Canada is a US state. I dunno if I should laugh at the stupidity or cry that stupidity is winning

        • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
          24·
          1 day ago

          You misunderstand. And you’re not a very nice person. What I’m suggesting is that Filipinos have the same beliefs across the border. ChatGPT doesn’t seem to believe that’s the case tho.

          • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            14 hours ago

            What I’m suggesting is I am asking ChatGPT to validate my idea that all Filipinos have the same beliefs, wherever they are, almost as if their worldviews are entirely determined by their racial/ethnic origin.

            Please stop and maybe read the things your write outloud before you post them…