Juno News - 07⧸24⧸2018 LIVE with Candice Malcolm： Danforth shooting investigation

00:00:00.960 Hi everyone, my name is Candice Malcolm coming to you live from the True North Initiative.

00:00:06.480 I wanted to jump on and do a live today to talk about the investigation, talk about where

00:00:13.120 we are currently when it comes to investigating and finding out what really happened at the

00:00:18.880 Danforth shooting, information about the shooter, about what happened, his motive.

00:00:26.000 There's really just so many unanswered questions and we're now heading into, what, a day and

00:00:32.040 a half since the shooting took place.

00:00:34.800 Everyone knows by now, Sunday evening, pretty late in the evening, about 10pm, a lone shooter

00:00:42.000 calmly walked down the street, Danforth Avenue in Toronto, for folks who know the area, it's

00:00:47.720 known as the Danforth, it's a very lively neighbourhood that's just sort of adjacent to downtown Toronto.

00:00:54.400 The shooter calmly walked down the street, suddenly pulled out a gun and began opening fire, shooting

00:01:00.640 up restaurants and sort of indiscriminately shooting whoever he could, 15 people in total

00:01:07.480 were shot, two people have died so far, a 10 year old girl and an 18 year old young woman

00:01:13.540 have died sadly.

00:01:15.760 And really it's just sort of, you know, fascinating how little information we still have.

00:01:23.160 It's been a day and a half and we really don't know a lot about what's going on and because

00:01:27.580 of that, because of the sort of tight-lipped attitude of police and authorities who are investigating,

00:01:35.520 there's a void, a void of information and whenever that happens it gets filled.

00:01:39.760 It gets filled with unnamed sources, so there's several different reports in Canadian papers

00:01:45.920 as well as in American outlets, American news media has taken interest to this.

00:01:51.260 And we hear just sort of anonymous sources who are kind of taking their best guess.

00:01:55.500 And so we have completely different motives that are being suggested and it's unfortunate

00:02:01.780 that the police and authorities who are working on this case don't just relay more information

00:02:06.780 to the public.

00:02:07.780 So I'm going to go through the facts that we already know, things that are verified, things

00:02:12.800 that we know are true.

00:02:14.320 Then I'm going to go and look at a couple of theories that are bouncing around online.

00:02:18.960 I think that we need to be really careful when it comes to these theories because, I mean,

00:02:24.020 look, it's early in an investigation.

00:02:25.960 There's always going to be information that's wrong when it comes to sort of unnamed sources and

00:02:30.780 eyewitness reports.

00:02:32.360 There's always going to be misinformation spread.

00:02:36.360 So I think it's important to keep that in mind.

00:02:37.540 I'm going to dispel some of the conspiracy theories that are bouncing around out there.

00:02:42.440 And then I'm just going to go through the questions.

00:02:45.440 There are still so many questions that remain unanswered and I think that this falls on the

00:02:50.560 responsibility of the Canadian authorities, the Toronto Police, the special unit investigators

00:02:55.540 who are now taking over this case and leading the investigation.

00:02:59.060 When you don't provide the public with information, this is always going to happen and it happens

00:03:02.640 on both sort of the left and the right.

00:03:04.640 It was just last week that Donald Trump met with Putin in a two-hour meeting where there

00:03:10.380 was no one there.

00:03:11.380 The White House didn't release any information as to what they spoke about.

00:03:15.060 And because of that lack of information, there's just tons of conspiracies that pop up.

00:03:19.640 And that's what's going to happen.

00:03:20.820 It's a lesson in public relations.

00:03:22.720 Even if the White House had put out sort of a statement saying in diplomatic terms, this

00:03:27.020 is what Putin and Trump talked about, there would be a lot less conspiracies, but they

00:03:30.600 didn't do that.

00:03:31.600 And therefore, it was left to everyone's imagination as to what they spoke about.

00:03:36.720 And there's sort of an equivalency here where the Toronto Police just aren't, you know, they

00:03:42.300 haven't released an image, a picture of this guy.

00:03:45.380 They haven't talked about his background at all.

00:03:47.720 We don't really know anything about him other than his name.

00:03:50.640 And because of that, we're all going to draw our own conclusions.

00:03:53.940 And so you have the people on the right who have already made up their mind, people on

00:03:58.940 the far right or people on the sort of conspiracy right who have made up their mind.

00:04:02.820 They've decided that this must have been an ISIS attack.

00:04:06.140 And you know, their concerns go straight towards immigration.

00:04:09.480 Then on the left, you have the same sort of mentality, except for they just assume it 0.56

00:04:13.700 must be 100% mental illness.

00:04:16.060 And the entire problem is we have to go after guns.

00:04:18.520 We should ban guns.

00:04:19.520 All guns should be banned in cities.

00:04:22.000 Toronto's mayor went down that path and mused as to why anyone in Toronto would need a gun.

00:04:27.880 Well, given how unsafe Toronto has become, given how many shootings and murders there

00:04:33.280 are, it had been in the city this year, sadly, you know, Toronto was always thought of as

00:04:37.880 a safe city where it didn't have the problems of major US cities of similar population.

00:04:46.000 Well, you know, that's no longer the case.

00:04:48.340 Toronto is no longer as safe as it used to be.

00:04:49.880 In fact, there was an article in BlogTO that I posted about two weeks ago talking about how

00:04:55.560 Toronto now has a higher murder rate than New York City, which is baffling and surprising.

00:05:01.840 So okay, let's go through.

00:05:03.880 I think that part of the reason why people were concerned right off the bat with this

00:05:08.760 case was that it took 24 hours for authorities to release the name of the shooter.

00:05:14.160 So why was there a delay?

00:05:15.160 Many will look at the delay, and then they finally release the name, and it's an Arab name.

00:05:21.760 The name sounds Arab, from what I understand, he's a Pakistani Canadian, Faisal Hussain.

00:05:32.140 And so because of that sort of coincidence of not releasing the name for 24 hours, and

00:05:39.260 then the name comes out, and it's an Arab-sounding name, leads many to jump to the conclusion that

00:05:44.920 it was Islamic terrorism.

00:05:48.220 The Feds have actually ruled that out, so a public safety spokesperson said that there

00:05:52.920 is no national security angle here, and that there doesn't seem to be any connection to

00:05:59.060 terror.

00:06:00.060 I think that you can take that with a grain of salt.

00:06:04.400 The federal government, obviously, obviously, the Trudeau government obviously has a stake

00:06:09.700 in saying that this is not a national security issue, just given Justin Trudeau's own political

00:06:17.340 position, his partisan position.

00:06:19.260 The government has a partisan issue in downplaying any ties to terrorism.

00:06:23.540 Because of Trudeau's stance, he's apologized and defended Islamist terrorists. 0.71

00:06:29.020 Everyone knows he gave $10.5 million in an official apology to an Al-Qaeda member.

00:06:36.040 He's received plenty of criticism over his policy of allowing ISIS members to return to Canada,

00:06:42.980 and he's even said that they can be an incredibly powerful, positive voice in the community.

00:06:48.100 So obviously, Trudeau, and then of course, the whole issue of the unsecure border and

00:06:53.360 illegal border crossing.

00:06:54.520 So Trudeau government definitely has an interest in downplaying the terror element.

00:06:59.980 But I think that we should keep in mind the fact that CSIS is involved, which is Canada's

00:07:05.320 intelligence agency, the Canadian version of the CIA.

00:07:08.260 We know that they're involved in this investigation.

00:07:10.380 And so the mere fact that they are involved leads us to believe that there might be some

00:07:16.460 angle, whether they're just investigating, whether they have clues, whether they have some

00:07:23.100 evidence that this individual might have been motivated or tied in some way to jihadist,

00:07:29.260 Islamist ideology.

00:07:32.840 That would lead us to believe that.

00:07:35.300 And so we sort of have these two contradictory ideas here that there's one thing that the

00:07:40.380 Trudeau spokespeople are saying, and then there's another thing that we know that agencies are

00:07:45.480 involved.

00:07:46.580 And then there's the other one.

00:07:48.200 So a lot of the reports that we've seen so far are based on anonymous, unnamed sources.

00:07:54.960 And that can be a problem because you don't really know how credible these people are.

00:07:59.360 You're sort of taking the word of the writer as to the credibility of the person.

00:08:04.140 Now, I know there's a lot of reasons why you wouldn't use unnamed sources when I write

00:08:08.240 in the Toronto Sun.

00:08:10.240 Occasionally I have to use an unnamed source because there is no way to get that person

00:08:14.480 to go on the record.

00:08:16.460 And maybe their position doesn't enable them to go on the record.

00:08:20.460 And so at this point right now, we sort of have this situation where there's incredibly

00:08:24.200 tight lipped attitude.

00:08:26.200 I've worked my own sources, I've tried to talk to my own people, and they're really

00:08:31.440 just not giving any information to reporters, to the public.

00:08:36.060 And so, you know, the people who are willing to talk, you know, maybe they're not as credible

00:08:40.860 as you might want them to be.

00:08:43.720 And so I'm not saying that the sources are uncredible.

00:08:47.200 I'm just saying that, you know, you have a CBS story as well as my colleague Joe Warmington

00:08:52.440 writing in the Toronto Sun who say that the shooter was known to authorities.

00:09:00.360 So this is from my colleague Joe Warmington in the Toronto Sun.

00:09:04.440 It says sources in Toronto and CSIS officials as well as the RCMP are looking into the past,

00:09:10.880 which sources say include his residence in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

00:09:15.200 So this was repeated in the CBS story that the shooter lived in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

00:09:22.200 Now, that's obviously a huge red flag.

00:09:24.940 You know, young men from the West don't typically go to those two countries unless they're involved

00:09:30.520 in some kind of, you know, they're involved with some kind of organization.

00:09:35.200 And, you know, it's often, often because, especially Afghanistan, they're going for training.

00:09:41.200 Pakistan, too, a lot of the, a lot of the new terrorists prior to going to the Islamic 0.97

00:09:47.120 state in Syria and Iraq would go to Afghanistan, Pakistan to receive Islamist military training.

00:09:53.080 And so that's obviously a big red flag, the fact that he went there.

00:09:56.940 Joe Warmington, the Sun, also reports that the, that authorities had spoken to saying the

00:10:05.060 shooter in the past about his online activities, and then in the CBS story goes even further,

00:10:12.200 saying that he was known, let's see, where it is the CBS story, saying that he was known

00:10:20.820 to have visited ISIS websites, that he visited Islamic State websites and expressed support

00:10:28.780 for the terror group online.

00:10:31.040 And so that, you know, obviously, if that's true, then the conclusion's already drawn.

00:10:37.920 If those sources are illegitimate and they're verifiable, and those are people, really, that's

00:10:45.560 really what they're looking into, then it's pretty straightforward.

00:10:48.180 This person was, was, was motivated or inspired, at least, by ISIS, if those things are true.

00:10:53.180 Now, compare that or contrast that, I should say, with this New York Post piece that came out.

00:10:58.440 And you, you see a totally different story.

00:11:01.980 This says, the headline reads, Toronto gunman was a kook obsessed with Batman. 0.78

00:11:08.180 And so this story is, is speaking to a different source.

00:11:11.960 And basically, it's saying that the guy has a history of being an emotionally disturbed person,

00:11:19.340 that he was known in high school for keeping pictures of people being killed, and sort of

00:11:27.900 that just, he was like a deranged individual, and that he had some fascination with the Dark

00:11:31.760 Knight and Batman, which, again, is totally different than the stories coming out of the

00:11:38.920 sun and CBS.

00:11:40.320 So, you know, take, take that with a grain of salt, right?

00:11:45.000 You know, this guy is either a hardened jihadist who came from, who, who, who traveled to Pakistan,

00:11:52.060 Afghanistan for military training, and used to be interested in ISIS websites so much so

00:11:57.740 that authorities knew of him and used to visit him, and that he'd spoken to authorities.

00:12:01.980 You know, that, that paints one very distinct picture, and on the, on the contrast, we have

00:12:07.760 the picture of him just being this sort of mentally ill person who suffered from psychosis

00:12:14.440 and who is just, you know, deranged in some way.

00:12:19.000 Someone's asking if this is live.

00:12:20.580 Yes, we are live.

00:12:22.040 It is Tuesday afternoon.

00:12:23.860 I just wanted to go through all the information that we have so far and talk about what, what

00:12:29.240 it is that we know, what it is that we don't know, and I offer my criticism of the Toronto

00:12:36.060 police and authorities for the way that they are being just so reluctant to provide information

00:12:41.280 to the public.

00:12:42.700 And so, we have these two very different stories being painted in different media, and then,

00:12:49.020 you know, we also have the sort of online speculation.

00:12:52.460 So, there is, let me see if I can find, here it is.

00:12:57.340 So, there's an individual named Teeley Humphrey.

00:13:01.580 He's a former armed service guy, armed forces guy, and I've, I've spoken to him before.

00:13:07.220 He's been a named source in previous stories of mine.

00:13:09.740 I think he's trustworthy and legitimate, and he has been tweeting out the information that

00:13:15.800 he's been receiving from his own sources that are within, well, he, he just says the

00:13:21.940 intelligence agency.

00:13:23.500 So, here on Twitter this morning, he says, my sources say that our intelligence agency

00:13:28.860 know of his online support for terrorist group and of his travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan

00:13:33.300 and his participation in training.

00:13:36.160 RCMP interviewed him at least once.

00:13:38.320 Toronto police also interacted with him several times.

00:13:40.940 Not once was mental illness mentioned.

00:13:42.760 And so, that's the tweet that came from Humphrey.

00:13:48.320 My experience with him is that he is credible and that he has solid information.

00:13:54.880 I'm not sure why he's putting this out on Twitter and not, you know, going to, going

00:14:02.260 through an intermediary.

00:14:03.880 I guess that's his call that he wants everyone to know instead of going through official media.

00:14:07.900 But, you know, that's, that's what he's hearing.

00:14:10.580 That's, that's what people are telling him.

00:14:13.000 And so, again, that paints a pretty different picture.

00:14:15.760 And so, there is this sort of question that's emerging. 0.91

00:14:19.200 You know, was this Islamic terrorism or was it just a case of a mentally ill guy that just 0.99

00:14:25.300 lost his mind and went crazy? 1.00

00:14:27.020 And that's really the question that remains.

00:14:30.160 So, as you probably know as well, the man's family released a statement.

00:14:34.660 They gave it to the CBC and there was a little bit of, people were a little bit skeptical because

00:14:41.440 of the timing.

00:14:42.360 So, as I mentioned earlier, it took 24 hours for authorities to release the name of the

00:14:47.300 shooter.

00:14:48.180 And almost simultaneously, like the moment that we knew the name, CBC had this statement,

00:14:54.760 which leads many to believe that it was coordinated, that CBC was coordinating with authorities,

00:15:00.300 that they had the statement ready to go, that CBC already knew the name of the shooter,

00:15:03.920 but they were holding that information from the public and they were waiting for the authorities

00:15:07.980 to release the information and vice versa.

00:15:10.420 The authorities were waiting for the CBC to have this cover, this letter to sort of cover,

00:15:15.340 you know, this is the, the, the, the elephant in the room is that all of these authorities

00:15:19.360 and all of these elites are just super nervous about backlash.

00:15:23.020 They're, they're, they don't really trust the Canadian public.

00:15:25.360 They think that everyone's just going to lose their mind if they find out that this was terrorism

00:15:29.440 or if they find out it wasn't, you know, in this case, the guy's name is Arab.

00:15:33.520 And so they, they, they sort of do this little song and dance and they cover it up a little bit.

00:15:37.700 And so, you know, I'm not saying that that was what is happening here, but it looks pretty

00:15:41.600 suspicious and looks coordinated when you have the CBC releasing a statement from the family

00:15:46.400 at the exact same moment as the police released the name of the shooter.

00:15:51.900 And so the, the family releases this very Polish statement from the Hussein family, basically

00:15:58.360 just says that the son was, had severe mental illness challenges, struggling with psychosis

00:16:05.800 and depression his entire life.

00:16:07.840 Interventions of professionals were unsuccessful.

00:16:10.560 Medication and therapy were unable to treat him.

00:16:13.600 And so this was just something that the family always struggled with.

00:16:17.020 And the individual was just very mentally ill.

00:16:19.740 So, you know, that, that hasn't been verified at all.

00:16:21.980 That's just their perspective.

00:16:23.600 That's their statement. 0.90

00:16:24.780 They say he was mentally ill.

00:16:27.120 And again, my own impression of that statement is that it was very polished.

00:16:31.780 It was very professional.

00:16:33.020 It does look like it was written by a lawyer or some kind of a PR type.

00:16:38.180 And of course it's completely possible that the family has a lawyer or a PR type in the family

00:16:46.400 that, you know, a cousin or one of their other children or something like that is a, is a

00:16:51.240 lawyer and did write the statement.

00:16:53.080 But just given how polished it is, I think it leads many to be skeptical.

00:16:58.760 And especially because the family is obviously coping with like an unbelievable tragedy, right?

00:17:05.240 They, their own son is dead.

00:17:06.540 And not only that, but he is the evil source of this carnage.

00:17:11.540 He's the one that carried out this grisly attack, murdering girls.

00:17:15.800 And, and it's hard to, it's hard to imagine that a family in that situation, especially

00:17:20.480 an immigrant family, elderly parents, the father's in the hospital, they have another

00:17:25.600 son in a coma, um, the, the, the dealing with this kind of tragedy, they would be able to

00:17:30.540 put together such an articulate, uh, perfectly worded statement.

00:17:34.680 And that's, that's why many believe that it was written by, uh, someone else.

00:17:39.560 But of course, like I said, it's completely possible that they have a son or a cousin who

00:17:44.640 is a lawyer and did write it.

00:17:47.340 And that's why it's so polished.

00:17:49.240 And, and, but then there's another thing that sort of does, again, question the narrative

00:17:53.520 of, of, of mental health.

00:17:55.280 So we're also the family statement that, that gives us sort of one perspective. 0.98

00:18:00.840 Their perspective is that the reason this happened is because their son is crazy.

00:18:04.300 And then we also had video footage.

00:18:07.400 We we've seen video footage of what happened of the, of the attack.

00:18:11.980 It was on social media and on, on Instagram.

00:18:16.140 And what you do see is a very calm, very collective individual.

00:18:20.940 He's very, very deliberate in his actions.

00:18:24.860 He doesn't seem like a crazed, frantic lunatic.

00:18:28.220 He's he, he, you know, he knows what he's doing.

00:18:30.220 He's walking, calmly walking down the street.

00:18:32.000 He pulls out his weapon and he begins to fire.

00:18:35.620 And so, um, my colleague, Anthony Fury and the son made this observation.

00:18:40.020 He said, while Hussein may have suffered from a severe mental illness, what unfolded on Sunday

00:18:45.160 night were the actions of a highly functioning adult who can execute a plan.

00:18:49.380 Um, that's right.

00:18:50.880 That's right.

00:18:51.720 And, you know, we further have evidence of that judging from, uh, my colleague, Joe

00:18:57.280 Warmington went down to the area where this individual lived.

00:19:00.600 He spoke to friends.

00:19:02.540 He spoke to people in the area.

00:19:04.700 And again, it doesn't, you know, he sounded like he had a lot of friends that he got into

00:19:10.620 some trouble, but, you know, he, he was working at a shopper's drug mart.

00:19:13.900 Uh, he, he was obviously a functioning individual.

00:19:16.480 He wasn't someone who had like a very low, uh, functioning level, uh, where he wasn't

00:19:22.560 really able to participate in society.

00:19:23.980 He, he, he, he, maybe he had depression and he had psychosis, but he was functioning in,

00:19:30.700 in, in the world like a normal person.

00:19:32.420 Uh, the, you know, people who lived near him said he was shy, he was reserved, but that

00:19:38.940 he was the nicest guy in the world.

00:19:40.520 That's a quote, the nicest guy in the world.

00:19:42.760 And we know that he participated in, uh, uh, um, sort of like public speaking classes.

00:19:49.860 He was trying to become a better public speaker.

00:19:51.820 He w he was involved in his community, which kind of counters the idea that he had this severe 0.54

00:19:56.900 mental illness.

00:19:58.920 And then another thing about those videos and what we know about what unfolded is that

00:20:06.160 he, he, he looked like he knew what he was doing.

00:20:09.680 And it also looked like he knew how to handle a weapon.

00:20:14.220 Um, I, I had a quote from a source that I spoke to who said, quote, of note, his posture

00:20:22.400 and handling in the video of him shooting shows familiarity and capability with the weapon.

00:20:28.040 Good shooting stance, no sign of hesitation.

00:20:31.200 So from people sort of experts and analysts that are looking at the video footage, it looked

00:20:37.320 like he knew exactly what he was doing.

00:20:38.840 It looked like he knew how to handle a weapon.

00:20:41.480 And then that brings us to another aspect of this debate that's still ongoing, which is

00:20:47.000 that, uh, of course, uh, as I said earlier, the left jumped right towards, uh, gun control

00:20:54.000 and, and further restrictions on guns and blaming sort of guns and not the person and not, they're

00:21:00.220 not looking at their motive or their ideology, but just blaming the weapon that they use to

00:21:04.760 carry out this attack.

00:21:05.640 So there's been lots of calls for gun control.

00:21:09.260 The Toronto mayor himself said something along that line.

00:21:11.640 The, uh, Globe and Mail reporter or, uh, Globe and Mail writer has jumped right in on that and said

00:21:17.640 that there's no reason why anyone should have a gun in Toronto unless you're a police officer.

00:21:21.400 But I think that one thing that's sort of missing from the debate that I've seen is that Canada ought,

00:21:27.400 well, everyone knows Canada already has strict gun rules.

00:21:31.380 And the idea, uh, that Hussain was able to get a gun.

00:21:36.900 Well, if he, if he actually had this history of mental illness, including psychosis and medication,

00:21:41.640 it's pretty remarkable that he was able to obtain a gun, you know, there's already very

00:21:49.140 restriction, strict restrictions, restrictions when it comes to purchasing a weapon, getting

00:21:53.660 a license, purchasing a gun, transferring a gun in Canada, in Toronto.

00:21:58.380 And especially if that person has mental illness.

00:22:01.920 So look, I'll admit, I'm not, I'm not a gun expert.

00:22:05.120 I don't, uh, I don't personally have a lot of experience with guns, but I did speak to someone

00:22:09.700 who knows a lot more about guns than I do.

00:22:13.460 And this is what he said.

00:22:14.700 This is a quote from a person I spoke to who knows a lot about weapons, knows a lot about

00:22:19.280 gun rules specifically in Ontario.

00:22:23.780 He said, quote, you have to disclose whether you've had any mental illnesses within the past

00:22:28.120 five years in your PAL, RPAL application.

00:22:32.140 PAL is the Possession and Acquisition License.

00:22:34.600 If you have, if you have, so if you have, um, had mental illnesses, you need to supply

00:22:40.280 a letter from your psychiatrist, also family members and employers are interviewed, regardless

00:22:44.860 of what you disclose.

00:22:45.940 So if, if he did have mental illness and he did apply to get a gun, you know, the authorities

00:22:50.940 would have done really strict, um, you know, really strict overview.

00:22:56.920 Um, even if he was able to get a license or maybe he got his license in the past and he

00:23:02.920 tried to buy a gun, um, there would still be, uh, restrictions on that.

00:23:09.180 He, he, he would go buy the gun.

00:23:10.780 He wouldn't be able to take it home.

00:23:11.800 The store is required to, um, do a transfer order with the government and run a background

00:23:16.380 check on the individual before he can take the gun home.

00:23:18.700 So again, having a lifelong struggle with mental illness, psychosis and medication, it just doesn't

00:23:26.460 align with being able to buy a gun in Canada.

00:23:30.260 And that's something that needs to be addressed and understood if, if you really, uh, if, as

00:23:35.400 his family suggested, he had this history of mental illness, uh, we need to know more

00:23:40.200 information about that.

00:23:41.200 We need to know, um, information about, you know, who's treated by what kinds of medication

00:23:45.900 he was on, when he was on that medication.

00:23:49.180 We just need to know more information about that before we can just sort of accept that

00:23:53.500 story as the truth at this point.

00:23:55.960 It's just sort of a suggestion and it hasn't been verified and it hasn't been backed up.

00:24:01.820 So look, there's still a lot of questions that need to be answered.

00:24:06.740 I know that there's a video that's circulating on Twitter and Facebook.

00:24:11.220 I mean, come on guys, use your head.

00:24:12.800 If you look at that video, you have to ask a question like, who put this together?

00:24:17.560 It's clearly like 10 different guys in the video.

00:24:19.980 People are saying that it's the shooter.

00:24:22.300 I don't buy that.

00:24:23.300 We don't know what the shooter looks like.

00:24:24.580 We haven't seen a picture of him and look, it's a pretty common name.

00:24:28.480 Faisal Hussain in that community is a pretty common name.

00:24:32.680 And so there's lots of guys that have that name.

00:24:34.980 I myself, as soon as it was released his name, I started doing tons of research on social

00:24:38.800 media trying to figure out who this guy is, which account he is.

00:24:44.560 Basically from best I can tell, this guy didn't seem to have any social media accounts.

00:24:50.460 And so whoever's put together a video claiming to be him, I mean, they don't have information

00:24:55.320 that it's him.

00:24:56.320 They've just searched the guy's name, found a bunch of pictures, or maybe just found pictures

00:25:00.480 that don't match the name and created this video.

00:25:03.160 So that's not helpful to sort of create, to put fake information into the narrative.

00:25:09.740 It just sort of distracts and it gives critics more reason to go after you.

00:25:14.920 Let's stick to the facts in this situation.

00:25:18.280 But again, I'll just emphasize this again, I did at the beginning of the video and I'll

00:25:21.420 do it again.

00:25:22.420 I think that the Toronto police and authorities in this case are making a huge mistake.

00:25:26.580 They haven't handled this very well.

00:25:28.140 The public wants information.

00:25:29.780 We want to know about the shooter.

00:25:31.340 We want to know his picture.

00:25:32.280 We want to know his background.

00:25:34.240 We want to know just information about him.

00:25:37.420 Is it true that he traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan?

00:25:40.240 If so, why wouldn't you just tell that information to the public?

00:25:43.580 Why would you have the Federal Department of Public Safety downplaying it and saying that

00:25:49.600 there's no national security angle when we know that CIS is involved, that we've seen

00:25:54.060 multiple reports now from unnamed sources saying that he was known to authorities, that he

00:25:59.300 was visited, that he used to look at ISIS websites?

00:26:03.440 If that stuff is true, address it.

00:26:04.760 If it's not true, address it.

00:26:06.820 Just provide more information.

00:26:08.740 Because when you don't provide information, there's a void and the void gets filled in

00:26:13.500 with theories and ideas and oftentimes misinformation and unnamed sources.

00:26:18.700 So, the best thing that the authorities could do here is just to be as forthright and open

00:26:23.580 with the public as possible.

00:26:24.980 Even if that is, you know, we have multiple angles here.

00:26:28.080 We're looking into these various things.

00:26:29.820 I think that that would be helpful instead because there's just this lack of information

00:26:35.260 and we're heading into now almost 24 hours since the event and, you know, we don't have

00:26:40.720 basic information.

00:26:42.820 That is certainly part of the problem.

00:26:45.000 And so we still, again, don't know there's these two competing narratives.

00:26:49.100 Was it an act of terrorism?

00:26:50.700 Was it inspired by Islamic terrorism? 0.87

00:26:52.560 Or was it a person who had a severe mental illness?

00:26:56.840 And you know, there's information that backs both sides.

00:27:00.000 I will let you draw your own conclusion.

00:27:03.500 And I'll just say again that we should be more trusting of the public to provide information.

00:27:09.640 And we should make sure that these questions get answered, that the questions that I'm

00:27:15.140 raising, the questions that others have raised get addressed, get answered.

00:27:20.320 There shouldn't be this sort of fear of public reaction when it comes to this kind of thing.

00:27:25.920 We can handle the truth and we should be able to be given the truth and we can have a discussion

00:27:30.600 as a society going forward as to how we can cope with this, how we can deal with this.

00:27:36.580 Not coming to rash conclusions or anything like that.

00:27:39.140 Not instinctively saying, you know, it's mental illness, therefore we should ban guns.

00:27:44.100 Or saying it was a jihadist, therefore we should, you know, stop immigration or something

00:27:49.580 like that.

00:27:50.580 But, you know, having more of a nuanced conversation about it all.

00:27:53.260 So that's the information that we know, that's the information we have.

00:27:56.780 Thank you so much for joining the broadcast.

00:27:58.900 I'll come on live again if there's any sort of breakthrough, any new information I think

00:28:03.840 is important that adds to this story.

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Juno News - July 25, 2018

07⧸24⧸2018 LIVE with Candice Malcolm： Danforth shooting investigation

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