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New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 9:04 am
by abdcskins
Live updates: New Orleans vehicle incident, at least 10 killed on Bourbon Street after driver plows into crowd | CNN

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What a horrible way to start the new year. Not seeing if the driver is in custody or not.

*edit* Officials have now announced that suspect is dead.

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:19 am
by SWIM
abdcskins wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 9:04 am Live updates: New Orleans vehicle incident, at least 10 killed on Bourbon Street after driver plows into crowd | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/webview/us/live-new ... mobile-app

What a horrible way to start the new year. Not seeing if the driver is in custody or not.

*edit* Officials have now announced that suspect is dead.
Seems like it was an attack of opportunity… not very well planned out.

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:26 am
by abdcskins
Yeah I am interested to see what the intent/ideology was of the driver.

At the end of the day violence and hatred permeates throughout humanity once again. Disgusting.

So difficult to prevent stuff like this. Gun control is one thing, preventing people from owning vehicles is another.

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:35 am
by Skintime
Witnesses reported that the killer was wearing body armor

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:54 am
by abdcskins
Yeah he was clearly ready for battle. He shot two cops. Guessing the cops shot him dead.

Saw a picture on Reddit that showed a flag on the back of the truck. Some are speculating it is ISIS related, but not confirmed. My gut reaction when first hearing about this was that it was Islamic extremism related.

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:53 pm
by DCSaints_fan
If its ISIS related, I wonder what the motive was. Do they want suck the US back into Syria?

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:53 pm
by 88Commanders00
Sugar Bowl moved to tomorrow due to attack.

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 8:23 pm
by ixcuincle
scary shit

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 8:24 pm
by Passepartout
Waking up to this and knowing people who were out trying to have a good time for the new year, as fifteen people sadly didn't know it would be their last day on this earth, of their lives. :(

Re: New Orleans Bourbon Street NYE attack

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:54 am
by SWIM
Glad that this and the Las Vegas terrorist attack don’t appear to be related… both guys in the military but other than that it seems unlikely as thier ideologies appear to be very different.