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Live coverage: New Orleans airport machete attack news conference
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 3/21/15 | Ken Daley

Posted on 03/21/2015 4:38:59 PM PDT by BBell

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Just some clarification.
1 posted on 03/21/2015 4:38:59 PM PDT by BBell
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I just heard on the radio that he’s dead Jim.


2 posted on 03/21/2015 4:47:53 PM PDT by BBell (breathe easy obey the law)
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acetylene, freon and oxygen. Inside his bag left in concourse were six molotov cocktails, a barbecue lighter, and smoke bombs.

mmmmm well he didnt Yell Alihu Ackbar but nonetheless one has to wonder what his motivations were

maybe he muttered it under his breath.....


3 posted on 03/21/2015 4:48:22 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Looks like a Ferguson lunatic attacking what he perceived as a soft target in a uniform. TSA cops are not exactly on their toes, because they rarely have to do anything other than pat down grannies. So his thinking was that they’re going be careless and will be easy targets.

Fortunately, they weren’t. I have heard about wasp spray or bug spray being used in attacks before. Does this appear on some jihadi website, or did he just come up with it from Southern lore?


4 posted on 03/21/2015 4:49:06 PM PDT by livius
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I just heard on the radio that he’s dead Jim.

I heard, and don't call me Jim.

5 posted on 03/21/2015 4:50:56 PM PDT by PROCON (Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
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Obama’s administration certainly has spawned alot of community activism.
6 posted on 03/21/2015 4:52:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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I imagine wasp spray is cheaper than mace or pepper spray and who knows? It may work just as good.

The JPSO deputies have a reputation for not playing around with criminals. Harry's boys don't play.

7 posted on 03/21/2015 4:53:39 PM PDT by BBell (breathe easy obey the law)
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Bomb squad found smoke bombs inside White's car, along with tanks in trunk of acetylene, freon and oxygen. Inside his bag left in concourse were six molotov cocktails, a barbecue lighter, and smoke bombs.

Sounds like he was planning more than spraying bug spray and hacking with a machete, but maybe didn't have the smarts to get it together and do serious damage ...

8 posted on 03/21/2015 4:54:30 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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Fairly common suggestion for make shift defense against home intruders or domestic violence If sprayed in eyes person is blinded until they get medical attention


9 posted on 03/21/2015 4:59:02 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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People do keep it on hand where I live (in the South) as a sort of quickie self-defense thing. It gives you time to run away, at least, and if you’re armed, it may give you time to get out the weapon.

I’ve never heard of it being used in an attack before, but maybe it has been and the press doesn’t report it. If so, LE need to start training their people. Although looking at how fast the TSA people responded, I’m wondering if maybe they already have.


10 posted on 03/21/2015 5:02:58 PM PDT by livius
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Freon? Oh hell if it was R-12, he is in for it now. EPA will get involved, and the greenies will get after him for trying to destroy the ‘ozone layer’...
Probably resurrect him so they can torture him to death.

Pretty dang useless as a bomb building material though.


11 posted on 03/21/2015 5:03:56 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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JPSO Lt. Heather Sylve shot the perp.


12 posted on 03/21/2015 5:09:30 PM PDT by BBell (breathe easy obey the law)
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Ban all machettes . If there were no machettes then no one would die ever. : The previous has been a A message from your overlords at the liberal news media. </sarcasm>


13 posted on 03/21/2015 5:13:03 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally imposed socialist net neutrality on the Internet to ruin it)
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If he was a Muslim terrorist, we won’t hear about it. The propaganda ministry will forbid the media from telling the truth — for national security reasons.


14 posted on 03/21/2015 5:13:34 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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I read that locals who knew him said he was a Jehovah’s Witness and very into that.

At 63, and an Army Vet, seems unlikely he would be getting ideas from a Jihadi website.

BTW, I’m not blaming his religion if true what he was. Just stating what I read and concluding he’s not driven by Islam.

The authorities have already said mental illness was involved.

They wanted to speak with him, trying to get something on motive. But now they can’t.

The female agent who shot him while he was swinging the machete, didn’t mess around.


15 posted on 03/21/2015 5:13:40 PM PDT by txrangerette (("...hold to the TRUTH; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck))
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nothing to see here folks

those poeple who captured his madness on their camera phones? soory the memory in their phones went kapuut..HEY it Happens.../


16 posted on 03/21/2015 5:15:15 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Need stiffer machete control bills.
17 posted on 03/21/2015 5:15:16 PM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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The one who shot him was a female Jefferson Parish

Sheriff’s deputy not a TSA agent

18 posted on 03/21/2015 5:16:01 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally imposed socialist net neutrality on the Internet to ruin it)
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The one who shot him was a female Jefferson Parish

Sherrif’s deputy not a TSA agent

The TSA agents did nothing but cry and get hacked


19 posted on 03/21/2015 5:18:29 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally imposed socialist net neutrality on the Internet to ruin it)
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Yep, I fly in and out of MSY several times per year - usually through Concourse B, where this occurred. The only visibly armed security is JPSO, outside the security screening area.

Sounds like one of the TSA agents was grazed by Lt. Slyve's gunfire. Hey, stuff happens. Heather won't be paying for any of her own drinks for a while.

20 posted on 03/21/2015 5:21:30 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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