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On April 23rd, 2018, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, a student at Seneca College, went to Ryder Rentals to and asked to rent a truck to move his furniture out of his house. A background check came back clean on Alec, so he was permitted to rent the van. He had no idea how to drive the van, so he asked one of the sales reps to show him how to switch the van's gear shift. After the rep left, Alec then sat in the van alone for over 20 minutes. but then suddenly a new facebook post During those minutes, he was putting out a cryptic facebook post that would mark the beginning of the 2018 Toronto Van Attack. that white van made its way on the sidewalk along Yonge Street as Minassian intentionally rammed through the sidewalk hoping to destroy anything or anyone in the way. Minassian moved from sidewalk to sidewalk, swerving sides and targeting pedestrians which was clearly part of his “Incel Rebellion” but we’ll get to what that is later. This was 1:20 – 1:29 p.m. on the business center, a time when everyone is out on their lunch breaks, so he picked a God-awful time to cause havoc on the streets on Canada. Finally, after 9 minutes, A cop car pursued the van till it eventually stopped and out came the driver; 25-year-old Alek Minassian. Seeing as he was caught on multiple cameras, he had 2 choices; either to surrender peacefully or fight.
