Comment on Equal under the law or something

jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At the time the N.O. Mayor’s office was arguing that it was not a terrorist attack. The FBI is now looking into it as a terror attack. Things change. It happens.

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  • seedotrun@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The FBI special agent in charge said on a live broadcast a couple of hours ago that it was not terrorism. Maybe she misspoke. Maybe they realized the PR nightmare of that choice. But it is certainly not misinformation

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The fact that PR might play into whether a specific attack is terrorism or not undermines the whole concept.

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      • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not really. They might have been hesitant to label it as terrorism to prevent a panic. It’s not uncommon for law enforcement to withold details of an ongoing investigation for such reasons, or to not tip off co-conspirators that they’re on to them.

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  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Other way around, Mayor said it was terror, FBI originally said it wasn’t. Well, one person from the FBI anyway.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re right. My mistake.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shocker that when big, horrendous events happen that it’s all chaos and people not knowing what’s happening for hours and hours afterwards.

    You know, not everything is a big fucking conspiracy. Sometimes its just different groups operating on different levels of available information and on different opinions on said information. I doubt the New Orleans mayor spends a ton of time working with the FBI, a completely separate organization.

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think he was also flying an isis flag.

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  • FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hard to get anything right when you’re rushing to push your viewpoint, huh?

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Source: www.cnn.com/us/live-news/…/index.html

  The FBI is investigating the deadly New Orleans incident at an “act of terrorism,” the bureau said in a statement.

  “This morning, an individual drove a car into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing a number of people and injuring dozens of others,” the FBI said in a statement. “The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased. The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism.”

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  • phughes@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased

    It makes it sound like the cops wouldn’t have done anything if the guy hadn’t brought the fight to them.

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• baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The cops being idiots doesn’t make this misinformation xD

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, unless there has been a recent development, last I heard on the two shot cops was they were in stable condition, not dead.

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