Matthew Best
Penultimate Amazing
Police are responding to a mass casualty incident in Waukesha, Wisconsin after a car plowed into a crowd of people during a holiday parade.
One witness reported that the driver ran over “several elderly women” while firing a weapon from his window.”Right in front of my family, this man drives through the parade hitting as many people as possible while shooting out the window,” a parade attendee tweeted. “He ran over several elderly women who were dancing in the parade and many others please pray for everyone in Waukesha.
A number of people have been injured after a vehicle plowed into a Christmas parade on Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Based on the CNN video and a local TV station video, it's not clear that it was a terrorist attack. The SUV drove past groups of spectators and a police officer who was manning a barricade and past some of the groups in the parade and didn't appear to hit anyone until it reached a place where the entire road was blocked by a marching band and spectators, and appeared to be trying to squeeze between the band and the spectators. The driver could have easily run over a bunch of people well before they actually did run over people.
“(A relative) lives in Waukesha, a black guy with dreads knocked on her door shortly after the incident at the parade. She wouldn’t let him in and he proceeded to go across the street trying to break into a building. My daughter called 911 with a description and they said they think he was driving the SUV that drove into all the people.”
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“My friend was approached by the people in the car. One was arrested, other two on the run. They asked to use his phone. 3 African Americans, early 20’s, dreadlocks.”
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At 4:39 p.m., a police officer could be heard on the radio saying, “There’s a car going westbound approaching the parade course. A red Escape. Black male. I couldn’t stop him. He’s going westbound blowing his horn.”
theprestige was saying that the headline labelling this as a terror attack was the fake news, not the actual incident itself, since this is not a claim made in the reporting. However these are from links already provided:I assume the theprestige will now walk back their fake news claim, and perhaps explain what caused it?
The investigation was still “very fluid”, he added, and did not know if the incident was terror-related. However, one person of interest was in custody and the vehicle involved had been recovered.
A person of interest was in custody and police have not ruled out terrorism as a motive, according to Police Chief Daniel Thompson.
Police chief Dan Thompson said his department had taken one person of interest into custody and seized the vehicle. He said he didn’t yet know if there is any connection to terrorism.
You have that backwards. Matthew went with an “answers now!!!!!!!” headline that he couldn’t back up, and theprestige called him on it.
The excerpts I posted make it clear that it is unknown at this time whether it was a terror attack or not. It might be, it might not. We'll have to wait and see whether the "person of interest" is charged with terrorist activity.That's still not what fake news is. The event did happen, and it was called a terror attack.
“Several LE sources say preliminary: Wisconsin incident appears to be vehicle fleeing a separate crime scene (stabbing) when it plowed into parade. One person in custody. Investigation ongoing but so far no initial link to terror or the recent Rittenhouse verdict w/@tom_winter,” NBC reporter Jonathan Dienst wrote on Twitter.