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US Police Officer killed in US Capitol car ramming attack

The US Capitol has been attacked by what appears at this point to be an individual with a vehicle. Reports suggest that a US Capitol Police Officer has been killed in the attack. The suspect is also dead after being shot by police, after running at them with a knife.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-56620242

A few snippets that have been released so far on the BBC article:

Just after 13:00 local time, a suspect rammed a car into the North Barricade entrance to the Capitol.

The suspect then emerged with a knife and was shot after lunging towards police.

No known nexus to terrorism has been identified and the suspect was not previously known to police.

The suspect and one Capitol Hill police officer have both died. Another officer was injured.

The suspect has not yet been identified.

The attack comes less than three months after a violent mob stormed the Capitol on 6 January, seeking to overturn the presidential election result.

Barricades erected since that attack have begun to come down, but over 2,000 National Guard troops deployed since January remain on Capitol Hill.
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Original post by Tempest II
The US Capitol has been attacked by what appears at this point to be an individual with a vehicle. Reports suggest that a US Capitol Police Officer has been killed in the attack. The suspect is also dead after being shot by police, after running at them with a knife.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-56620242

scary
It's another coup. We better send another ten thousand troops to protect Joe Biden
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Original post by Starship Trooper
It's another coup. We better send another ten thousand troops to protect Joe Biden

Not enough guns for it to be a rabid Trumper! More likely it's a deranged nutter.
Guy must have been off his nut on something.. trying to do a terror attack with a knife, in America?

Hearing that he’s part of the radical black Islamic group..
He's a self declared follower of the well known antiSemite of Louis Farrakhan and the nation of Islam, but at the moment they think its more likely to be a case of the ever more popular method of suicide by cop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/noah-green-farrakhan.html
Original post by caravaggio2
He's a self declared follower of the well known antiSemite of Louis Farrakhan and the nation of Islam, but at the moment they think its more likely to be a case of the ever more popular method of suicide by cop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/noah-green-farrakhan.html

If he just wanted to die though, he could have just run at them with a knife.. didn’t need to drive into them and kill one
Original post by fallen_acorns
If he just wanted to die though, he could have just run at them with a knife.. didn’t need to drive into them and kill one

It's almost like he wasn't thinking logically :confused:
Original post by harrysbar
It's almost like he wasn't thinking logically :confused:

Sure, just that I don’t buy that It’s just suicide as the motivation and there I wasn’t intent.
Original post by fallen_acorns
Sure, just that I don’t buy that It’s just suicide as the motivation and there I wasn’t intent.

Sorry but what do you mean by "there I wasn't intent?"
Original post by harrysbar
Sorry but what do you mean by "there I wasn't intent?"

Remove the I - just a mis-click on my phone

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