{"id":833,"date":"2026-02-12T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=833"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:56:13","slug":"canada-british-columbia-school-shooter-revealed-as-male-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/canada-british-columbia-school-shooter-revealed-as-male-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: British Columbia School Shooter Revealed as Male (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Video from a press conference on Tuesday\u2019s attack at a school in British Columbia, Canada, shows Canadian police referring to the alleged school shooter by their preferred pronoun \u201cthey.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shootings took place at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, as well as at a residence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stunning and brave! Canadian police are choosing to identify a trans school shooting suspect by his preferred pronouns. The victims\u2019 families must feel so much better now! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cbFHxiNxLG\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cbFHxiNxLG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/2021697166159311182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video was published by <em>Rebel News Canada<\/em>. In it, Deputy Commissioner Dwayne MacDonald says, using a pronoun commonly preferred by trans individuals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and on social media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MacDonald went on to say that the suspect, who is deceased, was born male and <em><strong>\u201cabout six years ago began transitioning to female and was recognized as female both socially and publicly.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Breitbart News<\/em> reported that <em>CTV News<\/em> broadcast another press conference where the Commander of the Northern District of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, <strong>Ken Floyd<\/strong>, described the alleged shooter as an <em><strong>\u201carmed individual\u201d<\/strong><\/em> rather than an armed man.<\/p>\n<p><em>BBC<\/em> noted that an alert was issued when the shooting was reported, describing the alleged shooter as a <em><strong>\u201cwoman in a dress with brown hair.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Floyd confirmed that the person described as \u201carmed\u201d was the same individual mentioned in the alert.<\/p>\n<p>Nine people were killed in the shootings, and about 25 others were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian police referred to the suspected school shooter in British Columbia using their preferred pronouns amid the deadly attack, sparking debate over identity recognition during crisis reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[730,731,123,728,729,140,727],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canadian-police","tag-culture-wars","tag-duane-mcdonald","tag-ken-floyd","tag-transgenderism","tag-tumbler-ridge","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}