Toronto Danforth Shooting investigation wraps up: No motive, move along
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Summary
Almost a year after the Danforth shooting, the police investigation into this mass shooting was finally released to the public on Friday. And yet, from the get-go, so many things about this particular mass shooting just didn t add up.
Transcript
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Tonight, the police investigation into Faisal Hussain is made public.
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It's June 24th, I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I'm publishing,
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So, almost a year after that grotesque act of carnage
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that would come to be known as the Danforth shooting,
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the Toronto Police investigation into this mass shooting
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Now, the actual investigation had wrapped many moons ago,
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yet it isn't all that surprising why the police weren't champing at the bit
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That's because this previously embargoed investigation is truly incredible,
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not for what it says, but rather for what it doesn't say.
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Indeed, if you had to give this investigation a working title,
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To recap, last July, Faisal Hussain walked along Toronto's delightful Danforth Avenue
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As citizens, both young and old, were eating ice cream and sipping lattes,
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He killed two and injured 13 before turning the gun on himself.
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By the way, when I say selectively shooting people,
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that's because not everyone Hussain encountered that evening
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was deemed to be a suitable and therefore shootable target.
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we yet again bore witness to the bitter harvest of another mass shooting.
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Yet again, another gross act of terrorism had erupted,
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when it came to actually uttering the dreaded T-word,
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the du rigueur makeshift memorials popped up all around,
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followed by the usual speeches of how the dearly departed
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so many things about this particular mass shooting,
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why the Toronto police employed the cone of silence
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pertaining to the identity of the deceased gunman.
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pen a press release on the behalf of the gunman's mother and father.
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This media release, written in perfect English,
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would adroitly explain their son's struggle with mental illness.
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when it comes to a Muslim carrying out acts of terror these days.
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It has nothing to do with the ideology or the radicalization,
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but rather, it's the end result of mental illness.
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Indeed, remember the case of Ayanli Hassan Ali?
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In March 2016, the then 30-year-old burst into a Canadian Forces recruiting office
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in North Toronto, wielding a large kitchen knife.
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Ali punched, slashed, and stabbed the corporal at the entrance.
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He then tried to stab another sergeant who'd fallen to the ground.
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he was charged with nine counts, including attempted murder.
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But just like Mr. Hussein, there was no Islamo-fascism to be seen here, folks.
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Even though, according to the Ontario Review Board,
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Ali continues to express concerns about the Canadian government
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And he expressed disappointment that he wasn't killed when he was taken down.
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But hey, he was probably joking about all that wild and crazy Sharia stuff, eh?
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It's simply an outbreak of schizophrenia or something.
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Oh, and by the way, unlike Hussein, Ali is very much alive,
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and when he's soon released from the loony bin,
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the theory is that his best form of therapy for his reintegration into society
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is to enroll at a course at Hamilton's Mohawk College,
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even though he still poses a threat to public safety.
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Hey, Mohawk students, you might want to put a flak jacket
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on your back-to-school checklist come September.
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why is it that Islamism and mental illness must be mutually exclusive?
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What if the likes of Ali and Hussein are mentally unstable
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and also individuals who willingly bought into the radical Islamist agenda too?
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when it comes to a certain rapidly growing voting bloc.
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And my goodness, that press release issued by the Hussein family
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for the Toronto and New York Region Labour Council,
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behind the National Council of Canadian Muslims.
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framing a new narrative of Muslims in Canada, end quote.
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with whatever narrative Hashim is trying to manufacture.
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was able to snag this freelance gig in the first place.