Eight people were killed and at least a dozen injured on Tuesday when a motorist intentionally drove a truck onto a bike path in lower Manhattan in what authorities are calling a suspected terror attack.
The rampage came to an end when the man crashed into a school bus and got out of the truck, brandishing a paintball gun and a pellet gun, according to police. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, was shot in the abdomen by a police officer and was transported to a hospital for treatment.
Investigators have since been able to talk to Saipov, who is expected to survive. It’s unclear what, if anything, investigators learned from him, though one official told ABC News the suspect seemed “proud” of the attack.
Investigators spent the overnight hours collecting video and still images from traffic and surveillance cameras along the route of the attack, sources said. Those images show that Saipov drove carefully and at moderate speed until he entered the jogging path and accelerated; investigators believe that suggests the suspect knew where he wanted to begin the attack. Authorities are pouring through toll records and other digital records to see if Saipov had scoped out the location beforehand, sources said.
(AP)
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This comment will irritate, even enrage many die hard Democrats.
There needs to be a war on terror. The complacency that dominated the Obama administration must be emphatically reversed. Each and every Muslim needs to be vetted, and proven safe before being accepted to reside in America. Not PC? Tough. Must we only react to a huge event like September 11? Or can we recognize the glorification of every opportunity to commit terror by these evil savages? It is time that we abandon this garbage that Hillary and Obama y”sh spewed forth so many times about how Islam is a religion of peace. It is not a religion – it is an ideology. And it stands for anything but peace.
I would say that any Muslim who is accepting of terror, even if not an active perpetrator should be exterminated. It is a sure bet that this approach would decrease the frequency of terror significantly.
And let’s restore the ban on Muslim immigration. This is practical, not radical.
Dear THE LITTLE I KNOW,
in theory you are right,
So where do you start? Can you Imagine what terrorists will do to US interests overseas? Etc.