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New Orleans Attack: The video showed the attacker, identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, allegedly navigating around a police cruiser barricade before driving a truck into a crowd of revelers on New Year.
New Orleans Attack: As per the police, Shamsud Din Jabbar drove a truck into a densely packed crowd before being fatally shot during a gunfight. (Image: X)
New Orleans Attack: Footage showed the moments leading up to an attack in New Orleans that claimed 15 lives and left multiple others injured. The video showed the attacker, identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, allegedly navigating around a police cruiser barricade before driving a truck into a crowd of revelers on New Year.
What footage from New Orleans shows
As per the police, Shamsud Din Jabbar drove a truck into a densely packed crowd before being fatally shot during a gunfight. In the footage, shared on X (formerly Twitter), several vehicles can be seen crossing the barricade in congested streets.
A witness told CNN that the barricades in place were inadequate, adding, “We have these hydraulic steel barriers from past events. Those barricades were not up, period. They had the flimsy orange ones that you could just push over with your finger.”
Police commissioner Anne Kirkpatrick said that the suspect was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did” and made deliberate attempts “to run over as many people as he could.”
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The FBI’s special agent in charge Alethea Duncan said that evidence recovered from Shamsud Din Jabbar’s vehicle included weapons, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and an ISIS flag.
What Joe Biden and Donald Trump said on New Orleans attack
Following the incident, US President Joe Biden said, “There is no justification for violence of any kind, and we will not tolerate any attack on any of our nation’s communities.”
US President-elect Donald Trump linked the incident to illegal immigration, saying, “They’re worse than the criminals we have in our country”.
