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.

“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.”

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

    EDIT: Filipinos. Not Filipino Canadians.

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

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

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        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”

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      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

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        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.

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          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…

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            Ditto.

            And yeah, Filipinos are very catholic so it would make sense that they lean conservative.