New Year's Day attack in New Orleans: What we know and don't know
New Year's Day attack in New Orleans: What we know and don't know
At least 10 people were killed and 35 were injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd in New Orleans' French Quarter on New Year's Day.
The suspect is dead.
The incident occurred around 3:15 a.m. at Bourbon and Iberville streets near the end of New Year’s celebrations and hours before the AllState Sugar Bowl at the Caesars Superdome.
The suspect fired on officers, injuring two of them after crashing the vehicle. The two officers are reported to be in stable condition. The FBI is leading the investigation. The FBI says its investigating attack as "act of terrorism."
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Shamsud Din Jabbar seems to be the name.
Here's a good place for live updates
11 a.m. - The suspect accused of plowing a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street is 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, according to a law enforcement source.
The source said he was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck.
Pardon me if I'll wait for some corroboration on that one before I play blame the Muslim.
I'm just glad it wasn't the Irish again. As long as they walk freely amongst us, no federal building is safe.
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My family heavily identifies as Irish-American, and most of them are racist as fuck. They get absolutely roiled when I turn their absurd rhetoric around on them.
NOLA.com is the local news outlet in New Orleans. Good paper.
CBS is reporting the same thing.
From the same source? Because it doesn't matter whether the paper is good or if more than one outlet is reporting it if it's all from one bad source.
All of those have "law enforcement" as their source for the identity.
I'm with @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on this one.
By law enforcement, they mean an FBI press statement. But if that's not good enough for you...
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-the-attack-in-new-orleans
Early reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing was pointing fingers at Muslims, too.
If you don't accept what any law enforcement says, even though they have his body and ID, you could have just said so and there would have been no reason to respond to you.