SUV drives through Lapu Lapu Day Festival - Fraser & 41st - Multiple Casualties

[Hondaracer]

Let me spoil the ending for ya, arrested, on bail, arrested, on bail, arrested, on bail, kills 10 people.

Kill a cop, kill innocent elderly people, kill 10 people, nothing ever changes.

What’s the old saying? The system isn’t broken, it’s designed this way.

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by Harvey Specter

Fking horrific and so close to home. RIP to all the victims.

According to the VPD, the suspect was known to them. They didn’t give details but did say it wasn’t a terrorist attack. I bet this guy will claim to be mentally ill, get bail, and roam the streets again.

Harvey, how is a person deemed NCR, not criminally responsible, due to mental illness in a court of law in BC?

If this suspect pleads insanity, I assume that Crown counsel would have a psychiatrist administer tests on the suspect to determine if he is really mentally ill?


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[nismodrifter]

Ncr would be declared after an extensive forensic psychiatric evaluation

[Jason00S2000]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

Let me spoil the ending for ya, arrested, on bail, arrested, on bail, arrested, on bail, kills 10 people.

Kill a cop, kill innocent elderly people, kill 10 people, nothing ever changes.

What’s the old saying? The system isn’t broken, it’s designed this way.

With all of the fear mongering over guns, it has to be said, that guns themselves don't kill people, and if someone is determined enough, they will find a way to kill without a gun. The real questions to ask are, who knew this guy? What were the warning signs? How did they radicalize?

If you read the news article about the threats towards this event, it almost seems like the person who did the attack could have been mad about the black performers at the event.

[underscore]

Originally Posted by !LittleDragon

Looks like the kid had a senior moment, panicked and hit the wrong pedal?

I'm confused why everyone is assuming this is a deliberate attack and not just an accident. With how powerful a lot of modern vehicles are it only takes a momentary mistake to end up going very fast in a very heavy machine.

[Qmx323]

Perp was extensively known to police for multiple non-criminal "events"

Of course, that isn't concrete evidence of it being deliberate, but its far more likely to be deliberate than an accident.

[Hondaracer]

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...r-plows-crowd/

Police chief calls this, “the darkest day in this cities history”

Yet for most outside of the Reddit crowd, it’s just another day. 10-15 years ago everyone would have been devastated by this. Now people have come to expect this type of activity.

A week from now the crime blotter will have moved on.

Edit* for a full sized SUV to be destroyed like this, certainly wasn’t a “seniors moment”



The accused:

[GS8]

I wonder how many of the deceased victims were TFWs / students?

I imagine their families back home would want their bodies returned. Can't imagine the costs associated with that. Does government pay for some of that, given the circumstances?

[GS8]

Remember when this happened?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...rash-1.5127490

Over 5 years to get to the trial

https://globalnews.ca/news/10834510/...l-crash-trial/

Accused's Wife's testimony

https://www.surreynowleader.com/loca...-stand-7622398

End result after almost 6 years

https://globalnews.ca/news/11137394/...led-bc-pastor/

I watched the video. When this body-positive individual left the courtroom, he literally got into the driver's seat of a car (an Audi A6 actually) and drove away. Talk about insult to injury for the family. The widow literally asked where the justice for them was.

[PeanutButter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=jQe...ature=youtu.be

eye witness account of what happened.

He said they lifted the barrier and let a car in. Picked up speed, hit someone on the right side, then he slammed his gas and then rammed into 100's of people.

He said, it looked like a bowling ball hitting bowling pins as people were flying through the air.

[PeanutButter]

Originally Posted by underscore

I'm confused why everyone is assuming this is a deliberate attack and not just an accident. With how powerful a lot of modern vehicles are it only takes a momentary mistake to end up going very fast in a very heavy machine.

I think with the new information it's more clear this wasn't an accident.

He was let inside the barrier and then he went off.

This had to be premeditated.

[donk.]

Originally Posted by Jason00S2000

With all of the fear mongering over guns, it has to be said, that guns themselves don't kill people,

Time to ban cars, the same way the govt banned guns. Since we know people arent the issue, but the tool they used to do so

[underscore]

Originally Posted by Qmx323

Perp was extensively known to police for multiple non-criminal "events"

Of course, that isn't concrete evidence of it being deliberate, but its far more likely to be deliberate than an accident.

At the same time I'd expect someone with mental health issues to be more likely to freeze up if they accidentally hit the throttle.

Either way I'm sure we'll find out more once there's a bit of a proper investigation and we're not just going off of sensstionalized headlines from Instagram "news" reports.

[Hondaracer]

Oh yea, that justifies it

Weren’t you the same person that said drinking and driving is never an innocent crime? Yet you’re trying to rationalize mowing down 11 people

[Jason00S2000]

Originally Posted by underscore

At the same time I'd expect someone with mental health issues to be more likely to freeze up if they accidentally hit the throttle.

Are you legit?

[underscore]

Yes lets empathize with those poor drunk drivers who have killed people because it definitely wasn't a choice they had made repeatedly, and jump to conclusions about everything else with zero investigation.

[Hondaracer]

Everything was building to an event like this. Anyone could see it.

Vancouver IS a place where things like this happen.

Canada IS a place where this happens.

If anything it’s a miracle it doesn’t happen more often

[underscore]

Take a break from the right wing doom and gloom news feed man.

[Badhobz]

Whatever the cause, this retard needs to go. Intentional or not. No justice for the families until this idiot is also 6 feet under.

[Eff-1]

Originally Posted by Badhobz

I don’t get it, flips are the nicest, friendliest, most family oriented asians in the world. It’s unthinkable that anyone would hold a grudge against them.

I'm stealing something from IG I saw this morning.

In times of crisis, Mr Rogers told us to look for the helpers. Well, Filipinos are born helpers. And it a world full of weirdness and fucked up shit, I think it's time we all adopt the role of helper.

Sadly, who knows what was going through this guy's head. But seriously, without Filipinos, we'd all be a lot worse off. They are an amazing community of people.

[mikemhg]

Removing for privacy.

[Hondaracer]

It’s political to the degree that almost certainly details will come out that this will be another example of how the system failed someone and it ultimately culminated in this.

[CivicBlues]

Why am I not surprised, the usual suspects already making this political before any of the blood has dried. And our resident meth head trying to turn this into a race war for some reason.

[pastarocket]

News reports that I read this morning mention that Jagmeet was at the Lapu Lapu festival.

He left the festival a few minutes before that driver went on a rampage.

Nothing political about the actual incident.

The festival could be initially political from the NDP’s point of view if Jagmeet was at the festival to get more votes, support for his party.

Then all hell broke loose with that driver.

Let’s wait until police complete their investigation first before jumping to conclusions that the incident was politically motivated.

We have no idea what is going on in that suspect’s head, right?

We don’t know his medical history, or state of mental health. Let’s wait for more information to be brought into the public first before making conclusions.

From what some Philippino acquaintances tell me, the Philippino community in greater Vancouver is pretty tight knit. Plenty of support from people within their community for each other and from Philippino church members now.

They need all the emotional support that they can get now after this horrific incident.

Compassion and empathy.

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[underscore]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

Man anyone making this political is a fucking moron.

I'm already seeing conservative grifters flooding social media with their bullshit over this, encouraging people to vote Con tomorrow.

Not just the regular grifters, but the official CPC accounts