The City of Vancouver, Vancouver Coastal Health, and the man suspected of ramming an SUV into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in April have all been named in a new class-action lawsuit.

The plaintiff is John Lind, who, according to court documents, attended the Lapu-Lapu Day festival with his family and suffered substantial injuries, including post-traumatic stress disorder, rib fractures and a punctured spleen.

The lawsuit alleges that the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Police Department ought to have known that unlawful entry of the festival was reasonably foreseeable.

“No dedicated police deployment by the VPD or any other police force was scheduled to patrol the Festival, despite the Festival’s significantly increased anticipated attendance and geographical scope,” it all

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