As Stuyvesant High School was letting out for the day
Eight people were killed when a man drove 20 blocks down a bike path beside the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon before he crashed his pickup truck, jumped out with fake guns and was shot by police officers, the authorities said.
Federal authorities were treating the incident as a terrorist attack and were taking the lead in the investigation, a senior law enforcement official said. Two law enforcement officials said that after the attacker got out of the truck, he was heard yelling, “Allahu Akbar.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference: “Based on information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror, and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.”
Two law enforcement officials said the driver of the truck, a 29-year-old man who came to the United States in 2010, was in grave condition. One official said he had rented the truck in New Jersey.
He’s dead now.*
The motorist, driving south down the path in a Home Depot rental truck, hit numerous people as nearby Stuyvesant High School was letting out for the day, officials said. At least 15 people were injured, but officials were still working to assess the extent of the casualties.
So I suppose Allah is sitting up there on his couch smiling happily about the eight people sprawled on the bike path near their smashed bikes? “Good, good, this will force everyone to submit to me and my little buddy Mohammed. Any tea left?”
*Update: Obviously he’s not. The reporting was that he was when I wrote the post. Soz.
I’m so angry right now. What a total waste of life. There is no point to this, no-one ever wins the world they want by killing people, especially members of the public minding their own business who have no more power to change the world than they do.
Tomorrow the scene will have been cleaned up and New York and the rest of the world will carry on as before, except for the injured and bereaved. Their lives will have been turned upside-down – but not one of them will be in any kind of position to stop a war, or convert everyone to one particular religion, or whatever it is these killers are demanding and now would not want to, even if they could.
They’re demanding universal submission. The Caliphate to run everywhere and clerics to run everything. Allah’s law the only law. Women to be punished for more or less everything, girls to be fucked until the men are tired of them and throw them away. It’ll be akbar, you’ll see.
@2,
Maybe he was offended by women on bikes.
Ok, ok, the cyclists are innocent victims. But it must be our fault some other way… Right?
Not submissive enough?
(For the “it’s not really Islam” crowd: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ )
@tigger:
I can not add anything to that.