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A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens more in what police are calling “the darkest day” in the city’s history.

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
    8221·
    20 hours 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
      12·
      11 hours ago

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

    • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1435·
      4 hours 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
        75·
        17 hours 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

      • BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        13 hours 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
          21·
          4 hours 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.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

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

        • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          12 hours 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”