01-31-2017, 06:45 PM
Yeah, it wasn't Muslim on Muslim. But, the initial reporting indicated that it might partially be -- in almost all of these types of chaotic crimes, details change as the smoke clears and police have time to investigate the basics.
Police snatched up a Muslim man after the shooting, took him in for questioning and also quickly apprehended the shooter (the shooter who we now know was arrested in his car on a bridge about 5km east of Quebec City centre, where he called 911 to say he wanted to cooperate with police).
So, media initially reported two arrests, one Muslim, which was accurate. But, the Muslim man's involvement was as a witness (and maybe a surviving victim), not a perpetrator, and media reported that update as soon as police released him.
The shooter was charged with six counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder yesterday. Many Canadians are upset that he wasn't also charged with terrorism, but police say they don't have evidence to support that charge at this time.
Maybe police will find evidence of terrorism. But, seems more likely to me, based on the little known now, that the crime was motivated by resentment and hatred of Muslims......similar to how Dylann Roof shot 9 people to death in the black church because he hated black people and wanted to start a race war. We'll see.
Whether or not he's ultimately charged with terrorism or a hate crime won't really affect the shooter's sentence though. Canada is not one of the handful of countries that still employs the death penalty.
Police snatched up a Muslim man after the shooting, took him in for questioning and also quickly apprehended the shooter (the shooter who we now know was arrested in his car on a bridge about 5km east of Quebec City centre, where he called 911 to say he wanted to cooperate with police).
So, media initially reported two arrests, one Muslim, which was accurate. But, the Muslim man's involvement was as a witness (and maybe a surviving victim), not a perpetrator, and media reported that update as soon as police released him.
The shooter was charged with six counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder yesterday. Many Canadians are upset that he wasn't also charged with terrorism, but police say they don't have evidence to support that charge at this time.
Maybe police will find evidence of terrorism. But, seems more likely to me, based on the little known now, that the crime was motivated by resentment and hatred of Muslims......similar to how Dylann Roof shot 9 people to death in the black church because he hated black people and wanted to start a race war. We'll see.
Whether or not he's ultimately charged with terrorism or a hate crime won't really affect the shooter's sentence though. Canada is not one of the handful of countries that still employs the death penalty.