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originally posted by: ArmyOfNobunaga
a reply to: BlueAjah
This is horrible. Times like this I don't wonder why cops shoot first.
A 29-year-old female bystander was also struck by a bullet and underwent surgery at Jamaica Hospital
originally posted by: ShadowLink
originally posted by: ArmyOfNobunaga
a reply to: BlueAjah
This is horrible. Times like this I don't wonder why cops shoot first.
Shooting first should NEVER be an option, there is too much of a chance of this happening:
A 29-year-old female bystander was also struck by a bullet and underwent surgery at Jamaica Hospital
I've yet to see how many shots were fired but I can imagine if the standard 20+ rounds were squeezed off there would be more than 1 innocent injured.
originally posted by: Mikeultra
Here's a photo from the Daily News article. The dead attacker is wearing the green jacket. I wonder why there has not been an identification on him yet? Why are they blurring his face?
originally posted by: sacgamer25
a reply to: BlueAjah
I wasn't commenting about you, but seriously even if this guy was heading the call of ISIS, I think mentally unstable makes much more since here than terrorist. Were talking about a hatchet.
Sounds more like the police are using the word terrorist to cover their butts. Again excessive force.
originally posted by: diggindirt
a reply to: BlueAjah
Their tactics seem to have changed from aiming for a BIG incident to these small attacks in many places. While the alphabet agencies are looking for a group planning some massive attacks, they are fostering these lone idiots with social media accounts. Lots of small brush-fires in lots of places.
But police sources said detectives have located what is believed to be the suspect's Facebook page; on it is a record of a digital chat he had with a friend during which they discussed terrorism in general. The sources said terrorism has not been ruled out as a motive. The friend told The News in an interview that they discussed terrorism in broad terms and that they both denounced it. “He never expressed, to me, that I could recall, that he would do anything violent,"Frank Sha Francois, 49, told The News. "Yes he said there were things that needed to be done, non-violent, collective action.” “We spoke against all aspects of any type of terrorism — foreign terrorism, domestic terrorism, terrorism committed by groups and by governments; any act of violence where innocent lives were spilled. We spoke against that."