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The arson thing was pretty thoroughly debunked. "I would expect better of HN posters."

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When was that debunked? The last I heard the police were investigating. I even saw video from it.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/police-arson-unit-probes-otta...

A direct quote from the Ottawa police chief:

"We don’t have any direct linkage between the occupation—the demonstrators—and that act." [1]

[1]https://www.cpac.ca/episode?id=fa5721d6-af8b-48d9-9848-73dcf...

Oh, so the 'debunking' is not on whether or not an attempted mass murder/arson occurred, but that there is no "direct linkage" between the occupation and the crime.

What that likely means is that they don't know who the people in the video are. It seems pretty likely to me that it's related to the occupation, especially since there was a 'confrontation' earlier that day with residents of the building. It's not like buildings are burnt down in Ottawa every day.

That's great that it "seems pretty likely" to you, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Unless you have concrete information which the OPS doesn't have, I don't think speculation is very useful here.

>It's not like buildings are burnt down in Ottawa every day.

No building was burnt down.

In the country I grew up in, trying and failing to commit crimes is still a crime. The act itself is the crime, not the success of it. Unfortunately these days it seems like the better determinant of whether something is a crime is someone's political affiliation.

Nitpick but parent said "no building were burnt down" and not "no crime was comitted"

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