In both directions, major thoroughfare, takes people into the city and out to new jersey. Three lanes in each direction, sometimes four lanes. Next to that is a popular, wellknown, longestablished bike path. Its not a path. Its a Concrete Street but only for bikes. It is separated by a median between the West Side Highway and the bike path. There is a median in the middle with trees, sometimes just a curb but always a separation. To the right is the highway, to the left is the bike path. We are looking north. A truck got into that bike path and began mowing down pedestrians and bicyclists. The hudson river to the right, new jersey. These are all victims. At latest report from the authorities, this white truck, this home depot rental truck, not one driven by a home depot
trying to piece together what happened as you said, this does appear to be an Act Of Terror. Everything that the witnesses observed is consistent with an Act Of Terror. None of the authorities going on camera here at th
to be periods where the driver is swerving away from groups. it doesn t mean he missed them all, but that he does appear to try to avoid them. we don t know what that means at this stage. but for someone like me, that cuts against the, oh, my god, this is terrorism, or, mowoh, m god, this is some racial response or whatever it is we re dealing with in the united states right now. great point. as you mentioned, this time of year there have been deliberate car attacks around the world. the christmas markets in spain, new york, elsewhere. i suppose law enforcement has to bear that in mind. but the jumping to conclusions is dangerous as well. yes, absolutely. i think there s something to learn out of these because, remember, there was an incident here in the united states that ended up being an elderly man in new york. and so i think what we have to get trained better at is to have police information come out faster. you were probably watching today, but they kept postponing
area. so you wonder was something else going on before hand? the second is, of course, that there does appear to be periods where the driver is swerving away from groups. it doesn t mean he missed them all, but he does appear to try to avoid them. we don t know what that means at this stage, but that cuts against the oh, my god, this is terrorism or some racial sponsor whatever it is that we re dealing with in the united states right now. yeah. great point. as you negligmentioned, there h been deliberate car attacks around the world. so i suppose law enforcement has to bear that in mind. but jumping to conclusions is dangerous, as well. absolutely. i think there s something to learn out of this. there was an incident here in the united states that ended up being an elderly man in new york. and so i think what we have to get trained better at is to have
could ve been taken here. we see in washington d.c. and in new york city and in other major events, we use dump trucks filled with sand to act as counter car attacks, barriers. and in this case, simple small town parade like this, even a fleeing criminal or someone who is doing it deliberately can find their way right into the middle of the crowd. it is really regrettable. and as we watch this new video here on msnbc, the interesting part, not that it is going to be anything of great import, at least noticeable, is that the vehicle steps on the brakes. right before we freeze this video. and if this was a terrorist to contempt, would you not try to go straight through the, if that really was the intent.
those places, more people to do their dirty work for them. two summers ago in niece when the truck plowed toward bastille day killing 90 people that was a big game changer for isis and we have seen reaction to that in new york where we barricade the streets to stop the car attacks, that seems to be the future for isis, doing the best at this point. one is the online piece, they use the internet to recruit and control and use the internet to publicize these attacks a standard tactic fall into two categories. one is the vehicle attacks like we saw in niece, in germany and in new york too. the other one is very different,