The brilliant reason Jay Leno has never touched a dime of his 'Tonight Show' money - CNBC News

The brilliant reason Jay Leno has never touched a dime of his 'Tonight Show' money

Kathleen Elkins | @kathleen_elk  11:35 AM ET Fri, 29 Dec 2017

 Why Jay Leno 'never touched' his Tonight Show money Why Jay Leno never touched his 'Tonight Show' money  

If you're resolving to save more money in 2018, you may want to take a cue from self-made millionaire Jay Leno.

The comedian and former host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" has used a brilliant money-saving strategy since he began his career.

From the moment he entered the working world, "I always had two incomes," Leno told CNBC Make It last year. "I'd bank one, and I'd spend one."

And he made sure to spend the smaller amount.

"When I was younger, I would always save the money I made working at the car dealership, and I would spend the money I made as a comedian," he said.

"When I started to get a bit famous, the money I was making as a comedian was way more than the money I was making at the car dealership, so I would bank that and spend the car dealership money."

Jay Leno, former host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"

Leno continued relying on this strategy even after he started hosting "The Tonight Show" in 1992, even though he reportedly earned as much as $30 million a year at the height of his career.

"When I got 'The Tonight Show,' I always made sure I did 150 [comedy show] gigs a year so I never had to touch the principal," Leno said. "I've never touched a dime of my 'Tonight Show' money. Ever."

Leno, who now hosts CNBC's "Jay Leno's Garage," said his conservative philosophy gives him financial peace of mind.

"So many people get to be the age I'm at now and they've got nothing because they just blew it all," the 67-year-old said. "I put my money in a hammock and say, 'You relax. I'm going to go work.' And when I come back, I put some more money in the pile."

While most of us will never make the kind of money Leno makes, the strategy is sound: Generating multiple income streams can help you increase your savings and diversify your earnings, so that you're less impacted by downturns.

"It sounds ridiculous," Leno said, "but if everything ends tomorrow, I know I'll be fine."

Kuwait: Not resolving GCC crisis is destructive to region - Al Jazeera

April 24, 2018

Kuwait: Not resolving GCC crisis is destructive to region
Kuwaiti Deputy FM Khaled al-Jarallah says the crisis 'will destroy the hopes and dreams' of the GCC if left unresolved.

Al-Jarallah warned that the crisis threatened to derail the work of numerous initiatives by the six-member body [AFP]

Kuwait's deputy foreign minister said the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member-states were determined to resolve the ongoing crisis in the Gulf because not doing so would be destructive to the region, the official KUNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled al-Jarallah who met Qatar's foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, on Tuesday discussed the "means of solving the crisis."

"Everybody realises the longer this division the deeper the wound will be in the Gulf body," he said.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar on June 5, 2017, accusing Doha of supporting "terrorism". Qatar rejected the allegations as "baseless".

Al-Jarallah warned that the crisis threatened to derail the work of numerous initiatives by the GCC.

"This disagreement, if not resolved, will destroy the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the members of the GCC countries in cohesion, unity, harmony and joint GCC action for the benefit of GCC countries," he said.

"Unfortunately, since this dispute broke out, several GCC mechanisms have been disrupted with meetings and proposals stalled," al-Jarallah said before adding that "the repercussions that can be caused by the continuation of the dispute" could affect security in the region, as well as the council's economic ties with other trade blocs around the world.

Al-Jarallah commended the US for its mediation efforts, adding that the circumstances were such that it would be better to wait before holding a joint US-GCC summit.

A Gulf summit that was supposed to take place at the beginning of April in Washington, DC, has been postponed to September.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA NEWS

Facebook releases long-secret rules on how it polices the service - CNBC News

Facebook releases long-secret rules on how it polices the service
Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network.
It's the first time the social network has done this and it gives more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use to inciting violence.
Published April 24, 2018
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Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

Facebook for years has had "community standards" for what people can post. But only a relatively brief and general version was publicly available, while it had a far more detailed internal document to decide when individual posts or accounts should be removed.

Now, the company is providing the longer document on its website to clear up confusion and be more open about its o

perations, said Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of product policy and counter-terrorism.

"You should, when you come to Facebook, understand where we draw these lines and what's OK and what's not OK," Bickert told reporters in a briefing at Facebook's headquarters.

Facebook has faced fierce criticism from governments and rights groups in many countries for failing to do enough to stem hate speech and prevent the service from being used to promote terrorism, stir sectarian violence and broadcast acts including murder and suicide.

At the same time, the company has also been accused of doing the bidding of repressive regimes by aggressively removing content that crosses governments and providing too little information on why certain posts and accounts are removed.

New policies will, for the first time, allow people to appeal a decision to take down an individual piece of content. Previously, only the removal of accounts, Groups and Pages could be appealed.

Facebook is also beginning to provide the specific reason why content is being taken down for a wider variety of situations.

Facebook, the world's largest social network, has become a dominant source of information in many countries around the world. It uses both automated software and an army of moderators that now numbers 7,500 to take down text, pictures and videos that violate its rules. Under pressure from several governments, it has been beefing up its moderator ranks since last year.

Bickert told Reuters in an interview that the standards are constantly evolving, based in part on feedback from more than 100 outside organizations and experts in areas such as counter-terrorism and child exploitation.

"Everybody should expect that these will be updated frequently," she said.

The company considers changes to its content policy every two weeks at a meeting called the "Content Standards Forum," led by Bickert. A small group of reporters was allowed to observe the meeting last week on the condition that they could describe process, but not substance.

At the April 17 meeting, about 25 employees sat around a conference table while others joined by video from New York, Dublin, Mexico City, Washington and elsewhere.

Attendees included people who specialize in public policy, legal matters, product development, communication and other areas. They heard reports from smaller working groups, relayed feedback they had gotten from civil rights groups and other outsiders and suggested ways that a policy or product could go wrong in the future. There was little mention of what competitors such as Alphabet Inc's Google do in similar situations.

Bickert, a former U.S. federal prosecutor, posed questions, provided background and kept the discussion moving. The meeting lasted about an hour.

Facebook is planning a series of public forums in May and June in different countries to get more feedback on its rules, said Mary deBree, Facebook's head of content policy.

From cursing to murder
The longer version of the community standards document, some 8,000 words long, covers a wide array of words and images that Facebook sometimes censors, with detailed discussion of each category.

Videos of people wounded by cannibalism are not permitted, for instance, but such imagery is allowed with a warning screen if it is "in a medical setting."

Facebook has long made clear that it does not allow people to buy and sell prescription drugs, marijuana or firearms on the social network, but the newly published document details what other speech on those subjects is permitted.

Content in which someone "admits to personal use of non-medical drugs" should not be posted on Facebook, the rule book says.

The document elaborates on harassment and bullying, barring for example "cursing at a minor." It also prohibits content that comes from a hacked source, "except in limited cases of newsworthiness."

The new community standards do not incorporate separate procedures under which governments can demand the removal of content that violates local law.

In those cases, Bickert said, formal written requests are required and are reviewed by Facebook's legal team and outside attorneys. Content deemed to be permissible under community standards but in violation of local law - such as a prohibition in Thailand on disparaging the royal family - are then blocked in that country, but not globally.

The community standards also do not address false information — Facebook does not prohibit it but it does try to reduce its distribution - or other contentious issues such as use of personal data.

Carrie Lam: Textbook revisions ensure accuracy and Hong Kong people should not overreact - Hong Kong Free Press

Carrie Lam: Textbook revisions ensure accuracy and Hong Kong people should not overreact
24 April 2018 16:32 Kris Cheng2 min read
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Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said that people should not overreact to a recent review of textbooks by the Education Bureau, saying that the review served to ensure accuracy in the material.

Broadcaster i-Cable found last week that a textbook review group at the Education Bureau had criticised phrases in textbooks, saying that they used inappropriate wording or unclear concepts. The phrases found to be problematic included: “Hong Kong is located south of China” and “the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party rule.”

Lam said the review was done by a committee, and was not conducted by the government or by her. Lam said she did not see any problems after reading the committee’s report.

“You can say that we have always used these phrases, so we should just continue using them. But if we can use more accurate words, especially in textbooks, there is no excuse not to,” she said ahead of the weekly Executive Council meeting.

“I have every confidence that these experts are doing this very important task with that one single objective in mind, and that is to ensure [a] high degree of precision and accuracy in our textbooks.”

She cited former Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang, who said the phrase “China took back Hong Kong’s sovereignty” was incorrect.

“China has never given Hong Kong’s sovereignty to a third party. The preamble of the Basic Law also states that the People’s Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong – this is more accurate,” she said.

“I just feel that some people have overreacted to this very important exercise to ensure that the descriptions that we use – especially when we use [them] in textbooks – are accurate.”

Lam said Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung has explained the issue and the public should not view the issue “through coloured spectacles.”

Last week, Yeung also said that the sentence “Hong Kong is located at China’s southern side” in textbooks should be changed. His comments led lawmakers to accuse him of conducting political censorship.

“[The phrase] is unclear, as there could be different interpretations from the wording,” Yeung said.

“It could mean the southern side outside China, it could mean the southern side within China’s borders – this is unclear from the wording, so it has to be changed,” he said.

Singapore's Lee Names New Trade, Industry Minister in Reshuffle - Bloomberg

Singapore's Lee Names New Trade, Industry Minister in Reshuffle
By Michelle Jamrisko
April 24, 2018, 6:49 PM GMT+10

Lee Hsien Loong Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong named a new trade and industry minister in a cabinet reshuffle, further preparing his party for a leadership transition sometime in the next few years.

Chan Chun Sing will be Minister for Trade and Industry from May 1, taking on duties currently shared by Lim Hng Kiang, who will step down, and S Iswaran, who will become Minister in Charge of Trade Relations. Chan, who turns 49 this year, will relinquish his position as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office.


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Chan will play a key role in an economy that is forecast to see solid growth in 2018 after an export boom last year gave the country its fastest expansion since 2014. Inflation remains within the government’s forecast range while its labor market is strengthening, but officials face longer-term challenges such as rapid aging and adjusting to the digital economy.

Lee, 66, is devolving more responsibilities from older ministers to the younger ones. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat will take on the additional job of assisting the prime minister on National Research Foundation matters from Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean. Chan will take over responsibility for the Public Service Division from Teo.


Read about who to watch in Singapore’s Cabinet

There was no movement in the finance minister post, which last changed hands in 2015, when Heng replaced Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam shortly after the government won a landslide election victory. Heng, who turns 57 this year, was part of a younger team of officials Lee promoted to show that the ruling People’s Action Party was preparing for succession.

Ong Ye Kung will remain Minister for Education with an expanded portfolio overseeing the entire ministry, from higher education and skills previously. He will relinquish his job as Second Minister for Defence. Josephine Teo will be Minister for Manpower, and Indranee Rajah will be promoted to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for Education.

— With assistance by Keith Zhai

Harvard's longest study of adult life reveals how you can be happier and more successful - CNBC News

Harvard's longest study of adult life reveals how you can be happier and more successful
Zameena Mejia 9:58 AM ET Tue, 20 March 2018
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The United Nations is celebrating the International Day of Happiness today and if you've ever wondered how to live a long, successful and happy life, Harvard researchers may just have your answer.

"The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health," Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School, told The Harvard Gazette in 2017. "Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation."

Waldinger, the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, said in a viral 2015 "TED Talk" released in 2015, that "good relationships keep us happier and healthier."

The ongoing Harvard study is considered one of the world's longest studies of adult life, having started in 1938 during the Great Depression.

"Our study has shown that the people who fared the best were the people who leaned into relationships, with family, with friends, with community," Waldinger said in the TED Talk.

The study aims to shed light on how "psychosocial variables and biological processes from earlier in life predict health and well-being in late life (80's and 90's), what aspects of childhood and adult experience predict the quality of intimate relationships in late life and how late-life marriage is linked with health and well-being," according to the study's website.

"Most of what we know about human life, we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20," Waldinger said. "We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life and sometimes memory is downright creative."

In the past 79 years, the researchers tracked the lives of 724 men, following up with each one on an annual basis to ask about their work, home lives and health.

They not only received questionnaires, Waldinger said, but they were also interviewed in their homes, provided their medical records from their doctors, got their blood drawn, their brains scanned and let the researchers talk to their children.

 Albert Einstein used this mindset shift to be happier and more successful Albert Einstein used this mental shift to be happier and more successful 
The participants were broken up into two groups: The first group started in the study as sophomores at Harvard College and finished college during World War II, with most heading off to serve in the war. The second was a group of boys from Boston's poorest neighborhoods, selected specifically because they were from some of the most troubled and disadvantaged families in the Boston of the 1930s, Waldinger said.

After gaining tens of thousands of pages of research data based on these participants, Waldinger said, the clearest message from the study is that "good relationships keep us happier and healthier."

Here are the three lessons you can learn about relationships from the study, according to Waldinger:

Social connections are 'really good' for you
Waldinger said the first lesson you can take is that "social connections are really good for us and that loneliness kills."

"It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community are happier, they're physically healthier and they live longer than people who are less well connected," he said.

On the contrary, keeping to yourself and experiencing loneliness is toxic. Waldinger points out that people can even feel lonely in a crowd of people or in their marriage.

"People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely," Waldinger explained.

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Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins, Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope in "Parks and Recreation."
When it comes to relationships, pick quality over quantity
Just as a parent or teacher may have once warned you, Waldinger said that when it comes to friends, it's not about the number of friends you have, but "it's the quality of your close relationships that matters."

Waldinger adds that you should also make sure your relationships are healthy because your willingness to commit to a person or people is not enough to reap the benefits.


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"It turns out that living in the midst of conflict is really bad for our health," Waldinger said. "High-conflict marriages, for example, without much affection, turn out to be very bad for our health, perhaps worse than getting divorced."

Good, warm and close relationships, on the other hand, have the ability to "buffer us from some of the slings and arrows of getting old," Waldinger said.

Eighty-year-old men and women who were happily partnered reported that on the days when they had more physical pain, their mood remained just as happy. Meanwhile, those in unhappy relationships had their physical pain magnified by being in more emotional pain.

Good relationships actually protect your brain
Waldinger explained that in addition to positively affecting your physical and emotional health, good relationships have the power to sharpen your memory.

People who are in relationships where they feel they can count on their partner in times of need actually have a sharper, longer-lasting ability to remember things.

All the same, those who were in a relationship where they felt they couldn't count on their partner experienced early memory decline.

To clarify, it's not that the researchers found that people in good relationships were flawless or had to be easygoing all the time.

"As long as they felt that they could really count on the other when the going got tough, those arguments didn't take a toll on their memories," Waldinger said.

If you want to be happier and have stronger, positive relationships, Waldinger recommended "replacing screen time with people time," "livening up a stale relationship by doing something new together," such as long walks or date nights, or "reaching out to that family member who you haven't spoken to in years."

"Relationships are messy and they're complicated and the hard work of tending to family and friends, it's not sexy or glamorous," he said. "It's also lifelong. It never ends."

Analysis: A tale of two Hannitys - CNN

Analysis: A tale of two Hannitys

by Brian Stelter   @brianstelter
April 23, 2018: 2:57 PM ET

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Fox News host Sean Hannity probably wouldn't like this guy Sean Hannity.
On camera, Hannity rails against "elite" media types who have inappropriately cozy connections with the rich and powerful.

Off camera, that's who Hannity is.

A pair of stories in the past week have highlighted this on-air, off-air contradiction. First came the revelation that Hannity has been a client of President Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen. Now there's a story in The Guardian that shows just how wealthy he is.

The Guardian reviewed public records that "link Hannity to a group of shell companies that spent at least $90 million on more than 870 homes in seven states over the past decade."

According to the paper, "the properties range from luxurious mansions to rentals for low-income families. Hannity is the hidden owner behind some of the shell companies and his attorney did not dispute that he owns all of them."

Hannity defended his investment strategy in a statement issued on Monday.

"It is ironic that I am being attacked for investing my personal money in communities that badly need such investment and in which, I am sure, those attacking me have not invested their money," Hannity said. "The fact is, these are investments that I do not individually select, control, or know the details about; except that obviously I believe in putting my money to work in communities that otherwise struggle to receive such support."

The attorney did not respond to a request for comment from CNNMoney. (Hannity's attorney in these matters, Christopher Reeves, is married to a CNN executive.)

Last week Hannity was widely criticized for not disclosing his Cohen connection to viewers.

Hannity downplayed the legal relationship by saying it "dealt almost exclusively about real estate."

That gave The Guardian a reason to investigative Hannity's real estate investments.

The revelation about Cohen and the paper's reporting about 870 homes calls to mind this infamous Hannity quote: "Now, my overpaid friends in the media, well, they have their chauffeured limousines, they like their fine steakhouses and expensive wine lifestyles."

Hannity's disdain for his fellow members of the media is one of the dominant themes of his nightly show.

To Hannity's credit, he has counted himself in the "overpaid" category in the past.

But his consistent message on Fox, repeated ad nauseam, is that TV anchors and other journalists are woefully out of touch.

He frequently claims journalism is "dead," even though he invites conservative journalists on his show to attack Trump's perceived enemies.

Hannity was all smiles at a recent party thrown by The Hollywood Reporter. He hobnobbed with guests like CNN's Don Lemon and Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti.

Then he headed over to his Fox studio for a monologue about "abusively biased so-called wannabe journalists."

One of the graphics on screen referenced a "fake news eruption."

The following week, when the Cohen relationship was revealed, he bemoaned the media's "obsession" with him and said he deserved privacy.

His comments "were certainly as hypocritical as spectators have come to expect," Time magazine critic Daniel D'Addario wrote.

"Hannity has made a career of hounding public figures, some of whom are now private citizens; Hillary Clinton and James Comey are unlikely to hold office ever again," D'Addario said. "So Hannity promoting the idea that a public person should be able to keep an essential fact private is surprising."

Hong Kong Approves Dual-Class Shares, Paving Way for Tech Titans - Bloomberg

Hong Kong Approves Dual-Class Shares, Paving Way for Tech Titans
By Benjamin Robertson
April 24, 2018, 6:38 PM GMT+10
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Applicants can file under new rules starting April 30

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Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. approved the biggest change to its initial public offering rules in two decades, putting it in a position to battle New York for some of the world’s hottest companies.

Technology firms that have shares with different voting rights will now be allowed to go public in Hong Kong, overturning rules that barred the likes of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. from considering the former British colony. Businesses will be able to apply under the new regime starting April 30, HKEX said Tuesday.


The new framework is a victory for the exchange and its Chief Executive Officer Charles Li, who championed the changes after losing Alibaba and other tech titans to venues in New York, where dual-class shares and similar structures have long been permitted. The step could be a landmark for Hong Kong’s efforts to be the leading home for international Chinese listings and builds on Li’s vision for a trading hub that rivals the U.S.

Some of the world’s largest and most influential technology companies, from Facebook Inc. to Google parent Alphabet Inc., have share classes with different voting rights to protect their founders’ influence after going public. The structures are contentious because they reduce the rights of other shareholders, and investors including BlackRock Inc. opposed HKEX’s plan.

Read more: Why investors are upset -- A QuickTake on dual-class shares

The city lost to New York and Shanghai in the global IPO rankings last year, with funds raised down 33 percent compared with previous year to $16.9 billion, the lowest level since 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The payoff for HKEX could come very soon. Xiaomi Corp., Ant Financial Services Group and Lufax, the peer-to-peer lending unit of Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., are among a number of Chinese technology giants preparing to go public. Smartphone maker Xiaomi is considering listing in both Hong Kong and Shanghai and targeting a valuation of about $100 billion.

Chinese Uber competitor Didi Chuxing reportedly in talks to launch $80 billion IPO - CNBC News

April 23, 2018
Chinese Uber competitor Didi Chuxing reportedly in talks to launch $80 billion IPO
Didi wants to reach a valuation of between $70 and $80 billion through an IPO, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.
Didi said Tuesday that it was expanding its service to Mexico, a move that pits the company directly against Uber.
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Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is holding talks about an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report.

Didi Chuxing was last valued at more than $50 billion in December, after raising $4 billion from investors including Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. It now wants to reach a valuation of between $70 and $80 billion through an IPO, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.

The company could go public as early as the second half of 2018, sources told the WSJ, but as talks are in the early stages a set date for the listing is not entirely clear.

Didi Chuxing declined to comment on the report when contacted by CNBC.

Didi said Tuesday that it was expanding its service to Mexico, a move that pits the company directly against Uber. Didi has also said it wants to enter Taiwan.

The company has previously partnered with international rivals to expand its reach to markets beyond China. But its move into Mexico marks the first instance of a direct expansion outside of its home market.

Didi Chuxing bought Uber's business in China in 2016. Uber has been planning its own IPO, but CEO Dara Khosrowshani has said this will likely not take place until 2019.

Toronto van killings: Police officer hailed as 'hero' after arresting suspect who begged to be shot without firing gun - Independent

April 24, 2018

Toronto van killings: Police officer hailed as 'hero' after arresting suspect who begged to be shot without firing gun
Video shows police officer staring down suspect at gunpoint in the middle of a road while he pointed what appeared to be a gun and shouted 'Kill me'

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A police officer has been praised as a “hero” for calmly confronting the suspected Toronto van crash driver.

Video footage showed the police officer staring down the suspect, later identified as Alek Minassian, at gunpoint in the middle of a road, while he pointed what appeared to be a gun and shouted, “Kill me”.

Images broadcast by Canadian media showed the suspect pulling an object from his side a number of times, and aiming at the officer.

As the suspect shouted “Kill me”, the unnamed officer replied, “No, get down”. When the suspect then said, “I have a gun in my pocket,” the officer responded, ”I don’t care. Get down”.

Picture of suspect emerges after van ploughs into crowd in Toronto
Eventually Mr Minassian was seen to turn around with his hands in the air, and then to lie on the ground.

The 25-year-old suspect was arrested “without incident”, authorities later said, and the non-violent end to the confrontation won praise from viewers.

Mr Minassian is believed to have been behind the wheel of a rented white van which mowed down pedestrians in Toronto on Monday afternoon. Ten people were killed and another 15 injured.

He is due in court at 10am local time, when police said they would reveal further details.

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A lone police officer (R) confronts the man suspected of driving a van into pedestrians in Toronto (L) as he points an object that looks like a gun (rayy0889/Twitter/Screengrab)

One Twitter user said “Thank you to the officer who showed composure, courage and ethics”, while Lauren Ash, an actor, added that the officer “showed the world that he could do his job effectively without immediate deadly force”.

Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association, told The Globe and Mail: “This officer looked at what was going on and determined he could handle it the way that he did. People are right, this guy is a hero.”

Gary Clement, a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police superintendent with 34 years’ experience of policing, said it was “quite clear” Mr Minassian wanted to goad the officer into shooting him.

“I would say this individual met the right police officer,” Mr Clement added. “Nobody knows how they’re going to react. In this situation a lot of it comes down to muscle memory. This guy reacted in a very mature manner.”

Toronto van attack: How is the suspect not dead? - BBC News

April 24. 2018

Toronto van attack: How is the suspect not dead?

The calm actions of a police officer who arrested the Toronto van suspect without firing a shot have prompted praise and, in some quarters, astonishment.

Video from the scene shows suspect Alek Minassian pointing an object at the officer and shouting: "Kill me!"

The officer tells the man to "get down" and when the suspect says he has a gun, the officer repeats: "I don't care. Get down."

Minassian is then seen lying down and the officer arrests him.

Many in North America are asking how the suspect did not end up dead in a hail of police gunfire. It contrasts with incidents in the US where police have shot and killed unarmed people.

However one US-based academic told the BBC the officer had had a "duty" to kill the suspect.

Toronto police quiz van attack suspect
Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told journalists the officer had done a "fantastic job" to understand the "circumstance and environment" and get to a "peaceful resolution".

He said police in the city were "taught to use as little force as possible in any given situation".


Media caption"Anybody in his way, he would hit": Witnesses recall Toronto van incident
Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association, told the Globe and Mail newspaper that the officer was a "hero" and could have justified opening fire.

"This officer looked at what was going on and determined he could handle it the way that he did," he said. He said he had spoken to the officer, who had told him: "I just did my job. What I did was no big deal. But look at these poor people."

Canada's Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale praised the "brave and professional" police response.

Some on social media have praised the officer's "extraordinary restraint".

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen also highlighted the apparent contrast with the behaviour of some US police.

"What is wrong with American police training? Shoot to kill? This Canadian officer arrests a mass murderer without firing a shot," he said.

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However, Michael Lyman, professor of Criminal Justice Administration at Columbia College of Missouri, told the BBC that the officer may have had a "duty" to kill the suspect.

"Assuming the suspect is holding a gun and pointing it toward officers, it is concerning that the officer is not engaging the suspect with deadly force," he said.

Professor Lyman said that the officer might not have opened fire out of fear of public criticism after the event.

"People died as a result of the suspect's actions. Can we assume that the officer knew this? If so, this changes things a bit in that the level of public threat is higher. Under this circumstance, it would seem that the officer had a 'duty' to respond with deadly force - assuming what he was holding was a firearm," he said.

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Professor William Terrill from the Arizona State University School of Criminology & Criminal Justice said the officer may have judged that the object held by the suspect did not pose a threat.

"It's possible the officer thought the object in the person's hand was not a gun, or not a real gun. The fact that the officer left the cover of his car and exposed himself out in the open would further support such a supposition," he said.

"It's also possible the officer recognised a potential suicide-by-cop incident and chose not to engage with deadly force. The only remaining option I can posit is the officer simply froze."

David Klinger, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St Louis said the video did not show enough detail for an informed assessment of the officer's actions.

"If the cop could clearly see what was in the suspect's hand, and that it wasn't a gun, then it's a simple matter of a cop doing his job correctly," he said.

Toronto van attack: Suspect quizzed after 10 pedestrians killed - BBC News

April 24, 2018

Toronto van attack: Suspect quizzed after 10 pedestrians killed

Suspect Alex Minassian is due to appear in court on Tuesday morning
Canadian police are questioning the suspected driver of a rented van that ploughed into pedestrians in northern Toronto on Monday, killing 10 and injuring 15.

Alek Minassian, 25, was not previously known to authorities, police said.

The incident appeared to be deliberate but the motive was not clear, officials added.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the "tragic and senseless attack" had brought him "great sadness".

Meanwhile, an officer has been praised for not opening fire during a tense standoff with the suspect, who claimed to be armed.

Video broadcast on CBC News showed a man pointing what appeared to be a gun at officers and shouting "kill me".

The officer tells the man to "get down" and when the suspect says he has a gun, the officer repeats: "I don't care. Get down." The suspect was then arrested without shots being fired.

How is Toronto attack suspect not dead?
Minassian is due to appear in court at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Tuesday.

How did the incident unfold?
Police said the white rental van mounted the kerb on Yonge Street between Finch Avenue and Sheppard Avenue at about 13:30 local time (17:30 GMT) on Monday and drove into pedestrians along a 2km (1.24 mile) stretch.

Reza Hashemi, who owns a video shop on Yonge Street, told the BBC he heard screaming on the other side of the road.

He said the van was repeatedly mounting the pavement and running into people.


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'It was awful': What eyewitnesses saw
One witness told City News that the driver was "hitting anything that comes in the way".

"People, fire hydrants, there's mail boxes being run over," said the unnamed man, who said he was driving behind the van during the incident.

As the van continued, the man said he sounded his horn to try to warn pedestrians. "I witnessed at least six, seven people being hit and flying in the air, like killed, on the street," he said.

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Pictures from the scene showed bodies covered in orange sheets along the van's route. Debris and items of clothing were scattered across the pavements and road.

The van was brought to a halt by police several streets away and was quickly surrounded.

The suspect was arrested 26 minutes after the first emergency call was made to the police.

What is known of the suspect?
Police said Minassian was from the northern Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill and was not previously known to authorities.

"The actions definitely looked deliberate," said Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders.

Public safety minister Ralph Goodale said there "would appear to be no national security connections" and Canadian broadcaster CBC cited government officials as saying he was not associated with any known terror groups.

Minassian had previously attended a school for students with special needs in north Toronto, former classmates said.

He would be seen walking around Thornlea Secondary School with his head down and hands clasped tightly together making meowing noises, Shereen Chami told Reuters.

But she said Minassian had not been violent.

"He wasn't a social person, but from what I remember he was absolutely harmless," she told Reuters.

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Investigators have sealed off the damaged rental van
Another former student, Ari Bluff, told CBC Minassian did not seem to have many friends.

"I remember seeing him probably just walking down the halls, usually by himself, or in the cafeteria by himself," he said.

Minassian went on to attend Seneca College in the North York area of Toronto, where the van incident took place, CBC reported.

Reporter James Moore, with Newtalk 1010, told the BBC he had heard reports that Minassian was regarded as being "quite brilliant".

Canada's Globe and Mail quotes a fellow student as saying Minassian was good at working with specialised computer chips used to process images.

What else is known?
Van rental company Ryder System Inc confirmed that one of its vehicles was involved and said it was co-operating with authorities.

The incident happened while foreign ministers of the G7 leading industrialised nations - Canada, the US, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan - were holding talks in Toronto.

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said the G7 meetings would continue on Tuesday as planned.

Emergency services flooded the area along Yonge Street
"The work of the ministers obviously goes on. This is a very sad day for the people of Toronto and the people of Canada," she said.

City Mayor John Tory urged residents to remain calm.

"This kind of tragic incident is not representative of how we live or who we are or anything to do with life in the city on a day-to-day basis," he said.

The White House issued a statement saying the US "stands with the Canadian people" and offering "any support Canada may need".