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 agoAt 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.
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.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 days ago
I think he was also flying an isis flag.
FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Hard to get anything right when you’re rushing to push your viewpoint, huh?
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
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.
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.