he wasn t putting up a fight on his knees hands behind his head. sandra: that suspect has been identified as sayfullo saipov. an immigrant from uzbekistan who came to the u.s. on a diversity visa back in 2010. he has previously lived in ohio and florida before moving to new jersey. we re told he is 29 years old, married, and has two children. investigators say they found a note near his truck pledging allegiance to isis. new york city mayor bill deblazio saying the motive is clear. it was a cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea what was about to hit them. the new terrorist tactic, which they ve called for publicly, are these lone wolves who commit an act of terror.
go operational with some type of activity that we need to be concerned about. bill: how much do you think they know about him now? my sense is a lot. we have more information in 12 hours than we had about the vegas killer last month. they know a ton about him now and know more in the coming hours and weeks to come. but they ll dig in as deep as they can and find out recreate his life, find out who he has been talking with and associated with and see if anyone shares his desire to attack people riding on bicycles in a big city. bill: i bet his family has answers, too. ron, i want to go back to phrasing the question flash to bang. what does that mean now in the radical terrorist world? bill, the attack methodology and recruitment and space that law enforcement has to work, there are fears today and we heard it echoed by the mi5
sandra: a cowardly act of terror just blocks from ground zero, the deadliest attack in new york city since 9/11 leaving eight people dead, 11 injured. the suspect yelling allahu akbar before police ended the rampage. i m sandra smith. bill hemmer is lower manhattan. good morning to you. bill: our coverage continues now. there is new information expected in a police news conference that will hit in one hour from now. we re waiting that press conference. we ll have more information about the suspect overnight and also the victims here in new york city. we re about a block away, 150 yards behind me you can still see that rented home depot pickup that is still in the street. as of this hour the front end rammed in. a dozen inspectors with white coats and white pants with the last hour going through the area looking for more physical evidence. they may try to move that truck in the coming hours as we move
association is speaking out ahead of the uniral urging them not to turn their backs from the mayor and not to protest during the funeral. talk about the crime statistics. the lowest since 1963. despite critics of the policing methods used here these new statistics are good advertise am for the nypd no? for when the police department drives the numbers down and deblazio to reform for what he called and said what a candidate and his mayor and to have it both ways. the police unions have responded very aggressively to turning their back on him. they are trying to get the dnc not to be here. they are trying to hurt the
a lot was put on the color of the skin, instead of content. but first we also have to extract what really matters here in the numbers. the majority of americans, just move them out of the picture. we ve come a great ways since voting rights and civil rights in the 60s. and we are not racist country but there is a small core, politically driven by leaders like al sharpton, who sits that right hand of bill deblazio, and they are invested in driving a narrative that if you re black, everything else is against you and even in the black community, it s not a monolithic blot.