The suspect from a violent knife attack on Surrey’s SkyTrain has been released with conditions less than two weeks after the incident left a 24-year-old man in the hospital in serious condition.
The suspect is a 29-year-old man from Burnaby who was arrested last Friday and has been ordered not to possess knives or contact the victim. The Metro Vancouver Transit Police are recommending charges of assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon purpose. […]
The stabbing is part of a series of recent attacks on Surrey’s SkyTrain. Just this month, a 17-year-old victim died after taking the bus near King George Station.
Admittedly, I’m not up to speed on Canadian media protocol and legalities…but I found it odd that the suspect in this recent stabbing is not named. Is that the usual process, or is there another reason for this?
It’s possible the police (in this case, the RCMP) didn’t release the name of the 29-yr old burnaby resident who was known to police (the RCMP, not the transit cops).
Sometimes they don’t bother releasing it, sometimes they conceal it….
Migrant
Unsurprisingly, the suspect is not named in the Global news story. A few paragraphs after the lede, the TNC story reveals that the suspect is Abdul Aziz Kawam who “allegedly made statements about having conducted the attack for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS).” Generally speaking, the mainstream press will avoid describing or naming suspects in violent attacks, unless the attacker is a white male, in which case you can expect to learn this within the first 25 words. This curious form of censorship is tacitly enforced by most mainstream news editors in order to prevent racist backlash, but I think that in the long run it’s unwise. It has become so painfully pronounced that many readers will jump to conclusions if the suspect is not named.
The name stays hushed until they “sikh” further clues in the case.
Diversity
Unless the name is Joe Smith or something similar you will never hear it.
To quote the article:
“On April 1st, suspect Abdul Aziz Kawam was arrested for slashing a man’s throat on a bus travelling on Fraser Highway. Kawam allegedly made statements about having conducted the attack for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS).”
Different incident Bus=/=Skytrain
This is how the justice and law enforcement system falls apart. When citizens accept that the law will not protect them, they take personal measures including their own firearms. This is why Justatwit’s catch and release program will fail. Has it worked in California? All it’s done there is force businesses to close permanently because of massive crime and theft problems not being policed and criminals not being incarcerated.
So it’s working exactly as planned.
Anarcho-Tyranny.