Looks like a truck went onto a crowded bike path in Tribeca. Reports say multiple people dead and injured.
Watching CNN, this is terrorist?? Wow, man this is scary. Police to have presser in a minute.
Now saying 6 dead and 15 injured. They have someone in custody and it is being investigated as a terrorist incident.
6 dead at the scene, 2 died at the hospital. Multiple serious injuries. The suspect was shot and taken into custody.
I work across the river in Jersey City and I can see the scene from my window. Luckily, all I can really see from here are the flashing lights of the emergency vehicles.
I don’t know what to think about the fact that my main feeling is that I’m grateful that it wasn’t worse. Is this what a sustained series of terrorist attacks does to a person?
The suspect is Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, a 29 year old immigrant from Uzbekistan.
Immigrated in 2010 on a green card. Lived in Tampa. It’s not clear yet if he has ties to the New York area. He got out of the truck carrying a pellet and paint ball gun.
My son is pretty upset. This one is really hitting home for him because he’s spent a good bit of time in that area and along that bike path.
On 9/11, I was pregnant with him, and didn’t even know it yet. So much terrorism in his lifetime…
If the circumstances weren’t so dire, I’d suspect you were joking.
So sad.
Quite bizarre. Presumably the intention was to try to ensure that the police kill him, along the lines of the fake suicide vests used in Spain? But if so, with links to Florida, was he really unable to get hold of a real firearm anywhere?
Pure Islam.
Pure radical Islam. Let’s not broad brush the thing.
Oh, shit. So sad to see NYC hit again.
I assume you posted a “pure Christianity” after the numerous non-Mulsim mass murders this year? Didn’t think so.
No. Because 99.99% of people who do it in the name of religion do it in the name of Islam.
Even counties like Philippines, Thailand, Russia, China, India etc. , who have relatively less Islam, do have home grown Islamic terror.
Remember the terrorism and murder in Charlottesville? I don’t remember you jumping in with cries of “Christian terrorism!”
Why?
Quite a lot of Christian terrorism.
Have some sensitivity, will you? This is not the time or the place for religion-bashing. Some of us are still processing what happened. Even being within sight of a terrorist attack is really fucking upsetting.
You know this is the type of remark ISIS uses to justify their violence and recruit members & sponsors, right?
The President himself is already using it to justify his “extreme vetting” of foreigners. What good does it do for the rest of us to stay silent?
And I’m sorry for that, I really am. But this counter-factual “blame a whole group” crap is WHY THIS KEEPS HAPPENING.
If we are going to actually solve this problem, we need to start by actually knowing what the problem is (mass murder), rather than the non-problem (Islam). Tomorrow, Fox News, Breitbart, and Stormfront will all be running more coverage of this guy than the last five non-Muslim mass murders combined, and the cycle will start again.
It needs to end. Part of that is standing up to assholes who shout “Pure Islam” as the response to these events.