Man carrying knife on Parliament Hill arrested

[applegrove]

Man carrying knife on Parliament Hill arrested

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/man-knife-arrested-parliament-hill-1.3323548

"SNIP.............


A man carrying a concealed knife has been arrested outside Parliament Hill's Centre Block in Ottawa.

The man was apprehended by the Parliamentary Protective Service today.

.......

"The Parliamentary Protective Service apprehended a male for carrying a concealed knife outside of Centre Block," said Cpl. Brigitte Mineault, a media relations officer with the RCMP, in an email to CBC News. "The subject is in custody."

Cpl. Valerie Thibodeau, a different media relations officer with the RCMP, told CBC News that charges were pending.



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[applegrove]

1. Thankfully he could not get his hands on a gun.

[MADem]

2. OK, I clicked the link and read the article, and these are the questions that

remain:

1. Is this guy associated, in any way, with an extremist group?

2. How did they know he was carrying a knife, if it was "concealed?" Do they have super - duper X Ray vision glasses, like in the back of the comic books?

3. Was it a penknife, or was it a "Now that's a knife" beheading-style knife?

So many questions, so few answers courtesy of the CBC.

[applegrove]

3. They would not be laying charges if there wasn't something illegal going on. I'm just glad he seems

to have been 1. gunless 2. alone

[MADem]

4. I think they're trying like hell to be (pardon the expression) "PC."

Will this knife wielder turn out to be a blond-haired, blue eyed, Presbyterian hunter/fisherman lad named Dudley Doright? Or will he be a "disaffected immigrant" or "first generation" citizen? No word yet....

The Centre Block is the main building of Canada’s Parliament. It houses the Senate, House of Commons and the Library of Parliament. Free tours are available to the public daily; all visitors are required to go through security screening.

It is unclear if the man was on a tour and whether he’d been through the screening process.

The man remains in RCMP custody. The investigation is ongoing.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2345580/man-apprehended-on-parliament-hill-carrying-concealed-knife-rcmp/

[Jesus Malverde]

6. Kinda like the treatment they gave the Merced Maniac who likely was a lone wolf terrorist...nt

[MADem]

7. I was traveling when that happened--I had to look it up.

I missed the coverage entirely....total wooosh.

I assume you're talking about this guy:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/11/05/santa-clara-student-identified-as-uc-merced-assailant/

Mohammad’s plan for revenge discussed his anger with being kicked out of the study group, the sheriff said, but he didn’t know why the computer science and engineering major was excluded from the group.

Warnke said Mohammad planned to use plastic ties to bind the hands of his classmates to their desks in his Wednesday morning class. He was then going call police with a fake distress call and ambush responding officers with a hunting knife and steal their guns. He planned to use the guns to shoot a list of students he named in his “manifesto,” including those in his study group.

“He had delusions of grandeur,” the sheriff said. “I don’t think he had any actual capability to carry it out.”

Warnke said Mohammad’s plan was written in English and referenced the Muslim god Allah several times. But Warnke said the student was motivated by personal animosities and the attacks had nothing to do with religion or terrorism.

“We had a teenager who was upset he was kicked out of a study group,” Warnke said. “We had a teenager who didn’t know how to channel his anger.”

[Jesus Malverde]

8. It would be interesting to read his manifesto to see for ourselves.

[mwrguy]

5. Everyone charged is guilty

Lol