WARMINGTON: Five other cops shot at since Toronto officer slain two weeks ago

Funeral held Wednesday for Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto who was killed in the line of duty on June 11

Published Jun 24, 2026  •  Last updated 27 minutes ago  •  4 minute read

Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto, 43, was shot and killed in the line of duty while executing a search warrant in North York on June 11, 2026. Photo by Handout /Toronto Police

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Since Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto was shot to death on June 11, five other cops have been shot or shot at in Canada.

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As the Greater Toronto Area has its second police funeral in less than a week, it’s worth noting that two Montreal officers were struck, two RCMP officers in Saskatchewan were shot and a Peel Regional Police officer was shot at three times – all in less than two weeks since 43-year-old Pinizzotto was murdered.

This is one of the reasons a funeral like today is important. It reminds us to be grateful for the brave men and women who are prepared to sacrifice their lives to protect others. Remember, those guns Toronto Police were trying to seize while executing a search warrant at an apartment in North York had allegedly been used in 27 previous shootings – including at the U.S. consulate, Jewish synagogues, schools and other targets.

That there was a funeral last week and another one this week and one likely next week, reminds the public of the danger that is out there lurking.

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And when you see Pinizzotto’s wife Andrea and his 14-year-old twins Daniella and Dominic, who their friends call Dom and Dani, it’s a reminder of the loss they suffered.

Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto, seen here with his wife and their 14-year-old twins, was killed in the line of duty on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Photo by Handout /Toronto Police (posted on X)

Bad time for police and society

When you think of them, you may also think of those officers who have to guard accused Nicholas Bennett, 19, in hospital and those officers who have come in from Montreal to pay their respects who also lost one of their own this week.

Montreal police Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane was gunned down in a wild shootout involving Alberta 25-year-old Seth Scott Hatfield. A female officer was also shot and is still recovering in hospital.

MARTYR: Montreal police officer Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane was killed in the line of duty on Monday.

This is just a very bad time. And if not for police, in all three of these cops murders, it could have become far worse in terms of possible carnage in that the alleged killers were all armed and dangerous and potentially on their way to more targets.

And it’s cops, or people in uniform, who often die in these kinds of attacks. We saw this in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia where Mounties died in a rampage and we saw it with the terror slayings of soldiers north of Montreal and Ottawa.

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With an escaped suspect from custody in a car, it’s only speculation to guess what could have come if police had not stopped him. With the guns seized from Martha Eaton Way, you can only go back to the history of those guns to imagine what their future targets could end up being.

Seth Scott Hatfield’s high school yearbook photo. Hatfield has been identified by the Quebec coroner as the suspected gunman in Monday’s Côte-des-Neiges shootings. (Handout)

Terrifying manifesto called for more carnage

And in the case on Cote-Des-Neiges in Montreal, one look at the 104-page manifesto and one can cringe at how much worse this all could have turned out.

The writings, found in Hatfield’s room, allegedly had a wide-ranging list of grievances but also talked of violence and encouraging others to commit it. As soon as police found this, they put an alert across the country of this risk at play.

“These people, the rulers of the present state of things, are the people who are guilty; and are the ones who actually need and deserve to be liquidated,” the manifesto allegedly states. ”Valid potential class A targets include: I- The main headquarters of international real estate brokerages/developers, and the powerful and wealthy people who operate them, along with slumlords, prominent real estate investors, and major real estate investment conferences.”

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It also said, “the headquarters and leading figures of multinational investment companies and private equity firms, such as BlackRock, Blackstone” and “elite bankers, or conferences at which such people and their cronies are in attendance, elite politicians and their cronies, both ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’; as well as powerful generals, leading military figures, influential Zionists, and war hawks.”

The manifesto also said, “the headquarters of all corporations with ties to Zionism are fair game: IBM, Microsoft, Boeing,” and “oil, logging, and agricultural industries, along with the loathsome ‘fur farmers’, who brutalize animals for their skin” and “the cronies of these companies and the conferences of these companies are also valid targets.”

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It’s terrifying and it was real.

All society has are cops to protect society from a modern criminal who is not only in their own world but able to access and influence the whole world. These men and women who serve in law enforcement are prepared to die to protect society from horrors like what has occurred too many times this month.

And sometimes there ends up of being a police funeral like the one in Toronto today.

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