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Police almost shot the wrong man: Details from the inquiry into Canada’s deadliest mass shooting
National Post ^ | April 9, 2022 | Tristan Hopper

Posted on 04/11/2022 6:22:40 AM PDT by billorites

The rampage occurred across two days. Wortman murdered 13 people in the Portapique neighbourhood where he owned a cottage, where he also set fire to the homes of many of his victims. Wortman then hid out for the night behind a welding shop in Debert, N.S., and then began killing again, mostly at roadside locations both north and south of Portapique starting at 6:36 a.m.

The most contentious part of the inquiry surrounds this second day, and the notion that police may have been able to prevent some of the nine additional murders if they had appropriately sounded the alarm. Most notably, police failed to authorize the Alert Ready system, which would have sent an audible warning to every mobile phone in the region, along with a description of Wortman.

One reason was that senior Mounties didn’t even know about the Alert Ready system. “Had no knowledge of it,” the RCMP district commander, Allan Carroll, told the commission. Officers also assumed that the killer had taken his own life after the initial massacre at the Portapique subdivision.

It wasn’t until reports emerged of an early morning murder and arson 30 minutes north of Portapique that police would begin sending out alerts carrying Wortman’s name and description — and it would take another hour after that for alerts to say that Wortman was driving a replica police car. Several of Wortman’s victims on this second day would know that a killer was on the loose, but not what he was last seen driving.

It’s notable that at least one of Wortman’s apparent intended victims, Adam Fisher, would be able to save himself in part because he had prior knowledge of the killer’s possession of a replica police vehicle. Just before 10 a.m. Wortman would pull his replica police car into Fisher’s...

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This entire event reads like a horror story.
1 posted on 04/11/2022 6:22:40 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

Total - 22 dead.
I think, Canada has a great gun control system.
Something had to slipped through, apparently!


2 posted on 04/11/2022 6:31:35 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: billorites

And the scariest part was the gross incompetence of the RCMP

they fought hard to stop this enquiry from ever happening ... what does that tell you

further reading -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involving_the_Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police


3 posted on 04/11/2022 6:32:57 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: billorites

Canadian cops are the most worthless pieces of crap on the planet.


4 posted on 04/11/2022 6:50:15 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: AZJeep

Just in time for Trudeau’s new gun control


5 posted on 04/11/2022 6:56:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Navy Patriot

Human just like all Police officers.


6 posted on 04/11/2022 6:57:04 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Navy Patriot

But Mounties look so cute in those red unies with the flat hats!


7 posted on 04/11/2022 6:58:01 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Second suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Navy Patriot
Canadian cops are the most worthless pieces of crap on the planet.

That's why they need to bring in CIA trained Uke NWO mercs to do the dirty work that is even too dirty for native Canuck cops to do.

8 posted on 04/11/2022 7:05:28 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: riverrunner

I have inside information, Canadian relatives, who are not welcome in America or my home.


9 posted on 04/11/2022 7:07:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Sirius Lee

See my post #9.


10 posted on 04/11/2022 7:09:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: billorites

“Police almost shot the wrong man: Details from the inquiry into Canada’s deadliest mass shooting”

Canada is a VERY VIOLENT country.


11 posted on 04/11/2022 7:09:58 AM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: drSteve78

See my post #9.


12 posted on 04/11/2022 7:12:35 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: billorites

Complete incompetence. Especially that one woman who was shot and her Fitbit recorded a pulse for another 8 hours till she bled out. Utter incompetence.


13 posted on 04/11/2022 7:58:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: billorites

But it’s not like it was a trucker or Covid protest or anything.


14 posted on 04/11/2022 7:59:08 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino
"Fitbit recorded a pulse for another 8 hours"

Reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.

15 posted on 04/11/2022 8:21:39 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Navy Patriot

That’s the understatement of the day.


16 posted on 04/11/2022 8:45:25 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: canuck_conservative

“And the scariest part was the gross incompetence of the RCMP”

Nervous Mountie jumped off his whistle and blew his horse.


17 posted on 04/11/2022 9:01:37 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: AZJeep

Total - 22 dead.
I think, Canada has a great gun control system.
Something had to slipped through, apparently!

A great gun control system???
So you are on board with people not being able to defend themselves?
You are on the wrong forum you spineless SOB


18 posted on 04/12/2022 3:13:11 PM PDT by bubalooie
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