Current Major incident at Bondi Junction

[BFew]

PM and AFP presser

 

[Red Black and Blue]

A lot of reactionaries going the early call on terrorist but looks like a junkie to me. Gaunt face and arms. The way he runs, not much excess muscle.

 

[Pamcake1]

This; the video where the perp is running and goes to the left of the big guy....wasn't going to take on a target that would take him on...that's a coward for you....and that's a brave man that stood his ground and tried to reason with him by the looks of it. I'm sure there were many people who showed bravery and assisted where they could in the face of fear. They are our society not this perp.

Major incident unfolding at Sydney shopping centre

Six people are dead and others, including a mother and baby, have been stabbed by a man armed with a knife at a major Sydney shopping centre.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I hope the baby and mumma are ok.....

The a-hole killed the bub and its mum plus some others.

 

[BFew]

Is that an Australian rugby league jersey he is wearing? NRL won't want that image shown too much.

Something like this one I think.

 

[BFew]

Reports of a Bollard/pole guy taking down the attackers knife.

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www.theaustralian.com.au

'Ms Prior said she looked down towards the floor below, where a man was defending himself with a pole on the escalator going down towards level three.

“A man (coming up) on the escalator was hit by a pole, he stumbled back.

“He dropped something that looked like a knife.”'

 

[Rob R]

Reports of a Bollard/pole guy taking down the attackers knife.

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www.theaustralian.com.au

'Ms Prior said she looked down towards the floor below, where a man was defending himself with a pole on the escalator going down towards level three.

“A man (coming up) on the escalator was hit by a pole, he stumbled back.

“He dropped something that looked like a knife.”'

He still had the knife when he went for the cop (it is next to his body in some photos).

Bollard guy is apparently an Australian- Chinese bloke who fled Hong Kong after Xi cracked down on human rights.

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[2 eazy]

I know this country is safer than most but I am really worried about Australia.

Crime is on the rise in most cities, especially Sydney/NSW hearing about shootings almost daily on the news & people being targeted.

That's majority gang related rarely do people not connected to that world are killed thankfully

 

[CodyRose]

Who knows but there is a chance as well that the bloke at the top of escalator was one as well.

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[eddiesmith]

A lot of reactionaries going the early call on terrorist but looks like a junkie to me. Gaunt face and arms. The way he runs, not much excess muscle.

He IS a terrorist, whether it’s mental health or drugs or ideology, he is still a terrorist.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

He IS a terrorist, whether it’s mental health or drugs or ideology, he is still a terrorist.

Definition of a terrorist requires political motives. It's not just a stand-in for someone who commits terrifying acts.

 

[CodyRose]

The a-hole killed the bub and its mum plus some others.

Mums deceased

The a-hole killed the bub and its mum plus some others.

 

[ms finch]

Has anyone else noticed that all the comments about victims refer to women and children? I’m yet to hear them mention a guy, although one photo of a victim looks like it could maybe be a guy.

In the footage he kind’ve ignores the guys when he’s running around.

Just wondering if this guy was targeting women or simply going for people unable to fight back.

 

[CD Xbow]

I know this country is safer than most but I am really worried about Australia.

Crime is on the rise in most cities, especially Sydney/NSW hearing about shootings almost daily on the news & people being targeted.

It probably isn't

Australia Crime Rate & Statistics 1990-2024

Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does...

www.macrotrends.net

One of the joys of the digital age is everything gets reported, everything gets photographed or videoed and then it's repeated over and over through many more channels that there was just a few decades ago.

 

[Pamcake1]

Definition of a terrorist requires political motives. It's not just a stand-in for someone who commits terrifying acts.

No that is not the definition.
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear.
This is Domestic Terrorsim you have defined Political Terrorism.

 

[ms finch]

Who stabs a BABY? I can’t get my head around the ****ed up evilness of that.

 

[kaiserchief13]

The a-hole killed the bub and its mum plus some others.

I just read the mum of the baby died, but haven't heard about the baby? Awful, imagine being the father of the kid

 

[Percel]

I just read the mum of the baby died, but haven't heard about the baby? Awful, imagine being the father of the kid

I heard a baby was saved, but I’m not sure if more than one was involved

 

[ms finch]

I just read the mum of the baby died, but haven't heard about the baby? Awful, imagine being the father of the kid

Baby is receiving treatment. Reports are that he/she is expected to be OK, and eyewitnesses who assisted them said that as well.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

No that is not the definition.
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear.
This is Domestic Terrorsim you have defined Political Terrorism.

That's from Wikipedia. I've yet to see a dictionary describe it as anything other than political violence. The origin of the term is clear. The Jacobin faction committing attacks in france in the 1700s. The incorrect use of it, may have led to informal meanings like how the word literally has been bastardized.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

If this guy is Indigenous or Arabic, the right wing media are going to go after that group.
I know it's a big shopping center but no security guards got to him.
I think the problem is that he was moving quickly.

 

[ms finch]

No that is not the definition.
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear.
This is Domestic Terrorsim you have defined Political Terrorism.

No, terrorism must have a political, religious or ideological purpose, whether international or domestic. Here is the Australian government’s explanation.

A terrorist act is an act, or a threat to commit an act, that is done with the intention to coerce or influence the public or any government by intimidation to advance a political, religious or
ideological cause, and the act causes: death or serious harm or endangers life; serious damage to property; a serious risk to the health or safety of the public; or seriously interferes with, seriously disrupts or destroys critical infrastructure such as a telecommunications or electricity network.

 

[CodyRose]

If this guy is Indigenous or Arabic, the right wing media are going to go after that group.
I know it's a big shopping center but no security guards got to him.
I think the problem is that he was moving quickly.

Very fast

 

[BFew]

I know it's a big shopping center but no security guards got to him.

Or the directive/policy to/for them was to leave apprehending him to Police, and look after their personal safety first.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

If this guy is Indigenous or Arabic, the right wing media are going to go after that group.
I know it's a big shopping center but no security guards got to him.
I think the problem is that he was moving quickly.

Most security guards are either fat, old or young women who are over worked and under trained and exist for insurance and clerical purposes. Probably less than 5% of security guards in Australia could have done anything other than get stabbed.