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.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 day ago

    I hear there’s a want to be dictator about to take power… Certainly hope no one drives a vbied in the crowd during the speech to create a diversion for a more targeted attack.

    Oh well. T’s&P’s in advance. That should keep everyone safe

    • @[email protected]
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      11 day ago

      Oh man that would be sooo terrible. I sure hope that doesn’t happen. I too shall offer TP. I hope they like single ply. It’s all I can afford, but it’s the thought that counts right?

  • @21Cabbage
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    31 day ago

    It’s kind of more amazing it doesn’t come up more often being such an accessible avenue of attack in comparison to your usual fare of guns and bombs.

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    15 hours ago

    Those enabling Israel are really to blame for putting our random citizens in this situation