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Hero cop fatally shoots knife-wielding maniac who killed at least 5, injured several including small child in popular Sydney mall
NY Post ^ | April 13, 2024 | Richard Pollina

Posted on 04/13/2024 6:09:42 AM PDT by rod5591

A heroic police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding maniac who killed five people and stabbed several others — including a small child — inside a popular Sydney mall Saturday afternoon.

Authorities received calls around 3:30 p.m. local time that a knife-wielding man was attacking people at Westfield Bondi Junction, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said during a press conference.

Footage obtained by 9News Sydney showed the suspect, wearing a gold and green rugby jersey and shorts, brandishing a long knife and approaching several horrified shoppers.

Hundreds of people were captured running for the mall’s exits during the stabbing spree.

At around 3:10 p.m., the suspect “moved through the center” in a crowd of about “nine people” inside the mall and launched his attack, causing “harm to those people we believe by stabbing them,” Cooke said.

Several posts on social media showed crowds fleeing the mall and police cars and emergency services rushing to the area.

Albanese condemned the “horrific” attack on the innocent shoppers.

“The devastating scenes at Bondi Junction are beyond words or understanding. Australians will be shocked this evening,” Albanese said. “This was a horrific act of violence, indiscriminately targeted at innocent people going about an ordinary Saturday doing their shopping tonight.

“It’s such a shock this happens in a country such as ours, where people should be able to go about their shopping on a Saturday afternoon without any thought that there is risk involved.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amyscott; australia; banglist; crime; mall; sydney; westfieldbondijunct
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The unarmed people in the mall (Guns are illegal for Australian civilians) were helpless against the dark-haired man of military age who began stabbing women and children in a murderous attack. The woke Australian media is uncritically reporting that the woke Australian government is saying this is not a terrorist attack, when everyone with a brain knows that is what it was. All comments in the Australian Sky news website are scrubbed to remove any comments referring to Islamic terrorism. Another example of Western governments failing their people and suppression any news that does not fit into their globalist agenda. My best guess is the attacker is an Islamic immigrant/terrorist.
1 posted on 04/13/2024 6:09:42 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: rod5591

Rama dama ding dong holdover?


2 posted on 04/13/2024 6:17:20 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: rod5591

An Australian newcomer?


3 posted on 04/13/2024 6:20:48 AM PDT by utax
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To: rod5591

The article calls him Sydney knifeman aka Muhammad Ackar Sudden Jihad Killer Guy


4 posted on 04/13/2024 6:23:39 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: rod5591

when they use a knife, a man was the killer, when they use a gun the gun was the killer... ever notice that?

and when has the left ever called for knife control after an incident like this?


5 posted on 04/13/2024 6:25:48 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Nateman

From the pix, appears to be as you suspected.


6 posted on 04/13/2024 6:27:27 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: rod5591

Did he come from a ‘low trust’ country?


7 posted on 04/13/2024 6:27:48 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Celebrate Climate Change !!!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Yes.


8 posted on 04/13/2024 6:28:11 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: rod5591

How’s that gun confiscation thing workin’ out for ya, mates?! You guys need a Bill of Rights with a Second Amendment.


9 posted on 04/13/2024 6:29:15 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: Nateman
From Gateway Pundit, from a video of the killer stalking shoppers.

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Looks like he's a product of Australia's "diversity" immigration policies.

Killed by a policewoman. Maybe next time he'll know not to bring a knife to a gunfight.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/mass-stabbing-sydney-australia-mall-knifeman-shot-dead/

10 posted on 04/13/2024 6:34:44 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: rod5591

Excerpt:

Cooke shared there was no indication of motivation for the act but was not ruling out if it was terrorist-related.


11 posted on 04/13/2024 6:37:21 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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Yet no one wants to talk about who is bringing these Muslim terrorists (and Sub-Saharan Africans) into Australia and other Western nations.
12 posted on 04/13/2024 6:41:00 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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No reason to lament when this sort of thing happens in a Nazi country.

Just pretend this mutant was running around the mall giving COVID injections, and all is well.

13 posted on 04/13/2024 6:45:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Bon of Babble

From The Sydney Morning Herald:

“ NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb speaking to the media after a man fatally stabbed multiple people at Westfield Bondi Junction”

“The attacker has been identified as a 40-year-old man known to law enforcement, though police are waiting to formally identify him.

He is believed to have acted alone.

If he is the person that we believe, then we don’t have fears of that person holding an ideation. In other words, it’s not a terrorism incident,” Webb said.

She said it was too early to comment on his psychological state.”

The cover up begins. He sure looks like a muslim in the photos.


14 posted on 04/13/2024 6:52:33 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: rod5591

Fortunately armed police stopped this murder spree, but how long did it take for them respond? Could lives have been saved or injuries prevented by the actions of an armed citizen as has happened in the US?


15 posted on 04/13/2024 7:12:06 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: rod5591

At least guns are illegal in Australia…..let’s be thankful for that….


16 posted on 04/13/2024 7:13:10 AM PDT by wny
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To: Nateman

One shot, one kill. Very good shooting from the officer. Here’s a question for the Left: Do you deplore the use of gun violence against the knife-wielding murderer?


17 posted on 04/13/2024 7:21:42 AM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: rod5591
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18 posted on 04/13/2024 7:26:00 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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How’s that gun confiscation thing workin’ out for ya, mates?! You guys need a Bill of Rights with a Second Amendment.

Australia also has strict knife control.

You are not allowed to have a knife on your person or in your vehicle unless you have a "good reason" to have it there.

Self defense is not an option for a "good reason".

The Australian Constitution was written at the height of Western Civilization, when the rights of Australian citizens were reasonably well respected, about 1900. From Wikipedia:

Some delegates to the 1898 constitutional convention favoured a section similar to the bill of rights of the United States Constitution, but this was decided against. This remains the case, with the Constitution only protecting a small and limited number of constitutional rights.

19 posted on 04/13/2024 7:28:34 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: VanShuyten

When NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb states, “The attacker has been identified as a 40-year-old man known to law enforcement, though police are waiting to formally identify him. If he is the person that we believe, then we don’t have fears of that person holding an ideation...”, it shows the police knew he was psychotic but didn’t care to protect anyone from him.


20 posted on 04/13/2024 7:35:10 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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