Summary

The FBI and DHS issued a warning about potential copycat or retaliatory vehicle-ramming attacks following the deadly New Year’s Day incident in New Orleans.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US veteran reportedly radicalized by extremist ideologies, killed over a dozen people using a rented truck before being fatally shot by police.

Authorities highlighted the low-skill requirement and accessibility of vehicles as factors making such attacks appealing.

Notably, damaged barriers in key New Orleans locations contributed to the attack’s impact.

  • @21Cabbage
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    61 day ago

    Bombings take a touch higher skill level and I think the warning there is any jackass could repeat a vehicle ramming, for the most part.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 day ago

      Filling the back of a truck with bins of gasoline and fireworks doesn’t exactly require “higher skill level”, just a few hundred dollars more capital… the media response and now government response when comparing both perp’s end goal and race is the rather glaring part.

      • @21Cabbage
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        61 day ago

        Yeah and one could ram a car into a crowd of people as an intrusive thought.

    • Nougat
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      31 day ago

      Fireworks and gasoline aren’t hard to come by.

      • @21Cabbage
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        21 day ago

        Yeah and one could ram a car into a crowd of people as an intrusive thought.