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Update: According to Toronto police, the van driver has been arrested, however so far there are no details on age, gender or motive.
- TORONTO POLICE SAY DRIVER OF VAN IN CUSTODY, GAVE NO DETAILS ON AGE, GENDER OR POSSIBLE MOTIVE
- WE DO NOT KNOW THE CAUSE OR REASON FOR COLLISION,’ SIDHU SAYS
As reported earlier, 8 to 10 people were hit, police said, though Toronto paramedics put the injured number at closer to five.
A witness said separately that he had seen at least four bodies lying covered on the ground, suggesting at least several fatalities.
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The van, which may have mounted the curb and hit the pedestrians on the sidewalk, was stopped by police, Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu told CBC Toronto. Sidhu added that the police still does not know the cause or reason for the collision.
Meanwhile, as CTVNews reports, witness Alex Shaker, who was driving southbound at the time, says the van was travelling at high speed on the sidewalk.
“He started going down on the sidewalk and crumbling down people one by one,” Shaker told CTV News Channel on Monday afternoon.
Shaker said he saw the vehicle strike someone with a stroller.
“He just destroyed so many people’s lives,” he said. “Every single thing that got in his way.”
The extent of injuries is unknown and ambulances are on the scene. Photos posted online show multiple individuals on the ground.
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Witness Phil Zullo, who was driving northbound, says he first noticed the commotion when he saw police taking down a male suspect. Zullo says he continued north, where he saw “shoes and hats flown everywhere.”
Video shared with CTV News shows the suspect pointing a small, dark object at police, with his back to the van. Police can be seen taking cover behind their vehicle and shouting at him to get down.
“Get down!” the officer is heard shouting. “I have a gun in my pocket,” the suspect can be heard saying.
“Get down or you’ll be shot!” the officer says.
The camera turns away from the confrontation for approximately eight seconds, then looks back to show the suspect on the ground, face-down, with the officer cuffing him.
Another video recorded from a nearby building shows the moment missed in the previous video. The suspect can be seen walking out in the street with the object in his hand still pointed at the officer. After approximately five seconds he drops the weapon, throws out his arms and backs up to the curb.
The van suspected in the collision was found on Poyntz Avenue off of Yonge, just south of Sheppard Avenue West.
The van is marked as belonging to the rental company Ryder, which suggests a London-copycat terrorist attack; recall the van used in the March 2017 deadly attack on London Bridge was also a rental.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau briefly addressed the situation before a session in the House of Commons Monday afternoon.
“Our hearts go out to anyone affected,” Trudeau said. “We’re obviously going to have more to learn and more to say in the coming hours.”
Another Truck of Peace.
Could be tied to the Waffle House?
Nothing giving anything about the driver yet, which might give a hint about his motivations, could be a lot of different reasons for the attack.
But it certainly seems to be a deliberate attack, not something that can possibly be put into the category of any kind of unintentional incident.
I believe the school children should have a walk-out protest about more van control. One thing we could do is put 5 hp engines in them, so they can’t go more than 1 mph. It would save lives – it’s the right thing to do.
Nobody needs a high-capacity assault van that can seat more than 7 people, either.
Dude looks white in these pictures.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6125470/toronto-pedestrian-crash-truck-injuries-pavement-mounted-latest/
White and bald.
Still could be or mean almost anything from what little has been released so far.
MSM has been known to intentionally modify photos of criminals and suspects to make them look whiter, both by changing skin color and by modifying other signs of ethnicity/race.
Reported driver name is “Alek Minassian” – maybe Turkish?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5648591/Van-strikes-eight-pedestrians-Toronto-flees-scene.html
Islam infects whiteys too. We’ll see.
Breitbart claiming that the man was described as “Middle-Eastern” in appearance.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/23/multiple-injuries-white-van-hits-pedestrians-near-major-toronto-transport-hub/
It looks like a white guy with a shaved head. The fact the neighborhood was Iranian between Finch and Sheppard on Yonge Street, the timing just before the Ontario election in June, and the fact Doug Ford, PC Leader, stated he will do a full and independent audit of the Ontario government (corruption) which would implicate a lot of crooked Liberals…suggests a False Flag event. The scum-of-the-earth Liberals in Ontario and Ottawa will use this “False Flag” to try and link Doug Ford to White nationalists, Neo-Nazism, Trump and “far right” conservatives in general. I don’t think it will work this time but this is unknown at this point. The Wynne (Queen’s Park, ON) and Trudeau (Ottawa) Liberal governments in Canada are more or less equivalent to the Obama and Hillary Democratic Party scum, thieves and crooks in the US. They are all cut from the same treasonous cloth. This is pure speculation at this point but once you know the mind-set of people without a shred of morality, predictions are not that hard to make.
Yeah that does look to be a white guy. If so it should be interesting to see how this plays. I was following Toronto police twitter feed and the SJW are out in force worried that this will trigger Anti muslim backlash. of course if it is white guy then same rules dont apply. Expect an avalanche of self righteous leftist twattery if that is the case..
Paul Joseph Watson is reporting he is a Muslim. Who knows.
Believe it or not, there are white muslims… both recent converts and those from areas like Kosovo that are racially white. Many of the people in Turkey and Iran look pretty much white if they dress western and don’t have long beards.
Interesting report by Paul Watson. I wonder what it is based on. If he is a Muslim, then this will create quite a backlash against the treasonous fake Liberals in Canada. It would not be good news for the contemptible Lesbian Wynne or the feminist Trudeau. I want my country back!
He’s an Armenian Christian.
And keep in mind that Trudeau has new, loyal and probably incompetent female commissioner of the RCMP by the name of Brenda Lucki. Perhaps she will play the role in Canada of former FBI Director Comey in the US. BTW, why has the name of the driver of a transport truck that rammed into a bus killing 15 and injuring 14 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, not been released? Was he a Sikh like the owner of the trucking company? Maybe he was in Canada illegally? Why was he not charged with failing to stop at a stop sign? At a minimum, there was criminal negligence and maybe even manslaughter. Welcome to a massive cover-up in Canada.
I tried to view info, especially for Stop Signs; saw 1, but not sure where it was…….
IOW’s did a vehicle run a Stop Sign?
High capacity fully automatic assault van with a stock bumper. From Zerohedge
Might be best to just ban High Capacity Vans with automatic Transmissions. Its just too easy to mow people down when you dont have shift gears.
I put that comment on Toronto Police twitter feed. Should lots of positive feedback…
Linked this vid too..
My oldie but goldie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyTsDweDDLU
Huh,I was not aware there was a Amish community in the Toronto area,goes to show you learn something new every day.
Time to ban high capacity assault vehicles, especially the scary black ones. The RCMP should be given immediate power to reclassify all vehicles to restricted or prohibited class. In addition to getting an assault vehicle with a license, you should be required to under go an extensive background check. Cuz safety and all…..
I couldn’t believe they didn’t shoot the guy when it appeared he was pointing a gun at the cops.
Then I had a thought – the police figured it was a Muslim and Trudeau put a Fatwa in place for the cops not to shoot any Muslims.
If we just had effective common sense van rental control
If he were short, blue and had apples for ears, my first and best guess is that he is Muslim.
Hope that van is in custody. Driver?
What driver? Didn’t see one in the headline.
I just read it again and yeah that is funny. Maybe the Van was Muslim..
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He was in a hurry to get to Allan’s Snack Bar.
Traffic is always bad at Yonge and Finch.
God ( errr Allah) I could go for a Falafel right about now.
PS my pigs are named Mohammed and Fatima, did I tell you guys that already?
That would be illegal in Canada because you know,..hate speech.
Fuck Canada, so glad I left (- sorry FM) even if we are about to have another fucking revolution here in Nicaragua.
as of 9pm,it was reported by cnn that there are 10 dead,15 injured–
all you guys up north hang in there–
When a country elects a eunuch to lead them, this is the kind of shit that happens. Yeah I can blame the muslims. Islam has been destroyed by the Saudis just as much as Christianity has been destroyed by the Zionists. The best defense is neutrality or at least to have leaders who have balls to stand up to the Anglo Zionist empire. You dont see this kind of shit happening in Switzerland or Liechtenstein (or Russia, if you exclude separatism as a motive). They don’t hate us for our freedoms (which don’t exist anymore anyway). They hate us because we enable war crimes against them and get away with it.
I don’t know about Liechtenstein, but Switzerland and Russia both have large and growing problems with the Muslims.
Both are trying to do something about it with only a small effect on the overall growth of their Muslim problem.
FWIW, America is currently in the same situation.
It;s been that way with Islam for 1400 years and isn’t likely to change anytime soon without something drastic taking place.
So the spin right now on CBC is… a Word Salad.
Government officials briefed on the investigation so far say the suspect is not associated with any organized terrorist group and he does not represent a larger threat to national security.
Well that’s a relief. Imagine if he was organized…..
Deploying to FRY back in 95 and it was an eye-opening experience for my 20 year old brain at that time: all Slavic muslims. Talk about pucker factor 10. Well lets just start blaming anti-muslim white males triggering him and the van. It is never the individual when it doesnt fit the agenda lol.