Mental Health Trouble Leads to Public Safety Issues, Vancouver’s Mayor Says

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim (right) and Vancouver police acting Chief Steve Rai leave after visiting the scene Sunday where a vehicle drove into a crowd at a street festival on Saturday evening in Vancouver. The Canadian Press/Rich Lam

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says people are “sick and tired” of inquiries and reviews into the recurring pattern of people in a mental health crisis that become a public safety crisis.

Sim says the man accused of killing 11 people by driving a vehicle through a street lined with festival goers Saturday was under the care of a mental health team and on extended leave.