Toronto van attack: Calm actions of police stun US

BBC News ^ | 24th April 2018 | BBC News

[SkyDancer]

They’re trying to figure out what to put on the greeting card to say how sorry they are they arrested him.

[mylife]

Other than the blood shed it’s somewhat entertaining.

All these eggheads trying to make us perfect by disarming the innocent.

[originalbuckeye]

Plus, Canada has full on gun control. The cop wasn’t really afraid for his own life.

[dead]

One US-based academic told the BBC that the officer would have had a "duty" to kill the suspect, if the object he was pointing was a gun.

The reporter read that somewhere.
He wrote it down and then he read it.
Unnamed US-based academic would be an idiot, if he existed.

[drpix]

The only thing that makes liberals as happy as saving a guilty killer is killing an innocent unborn child.

[Gay State Conservative]

Unless that cop had a good enough look to be *certain* that what the guy was holding was,in fact,harmless he was negligent in not dropping the guy.

[vooch]

because peace officers in other countries are trained to believe citizens are normal.

In the US, peace officers are trained to consider citizens to be a hostile enemy that needs to be put down.

[dfwgator]

Meanwhile today in Dallas, two police officers were shot.

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

The Canadians have allowed a whole new breed of criminal into their country. It’s time for them to respond or quite a few police officers are going to be laying in the street.

This one was lucky!

[American in Israel]

I imagine that he was not holding a gun, so it was a lot easier to be calm. However, facts and reporting does get in the way of this articles agenda.

[TChad]

And yet WaPo is not calling for van-control.

Nor for shutting down the Canadian Automobile Association.

[American in Israel]

How do you tell an Incel? Do they brand a big L on their forehead?

[Fantasywriter]

True that.

[familyop]

The name, Minassian, comes from Armenia and Iran.

[Crucial]

Canadian police officer fatalities are likely on the rise or will be soon due to an influx of violent Muslim extremists.

[zeugma]

I guess the point being we don’t have enough dead cops in the last couple of years. Whats a few more?

No. I think the point is that the cops in Canukistan don't have itchy trigger fingers that freak out when they get an opportunity to shoot someone/something. Nothing wrong with that.