Posted on 03/21/2015 4:38:59 PM PDT by BBell
Live coverage of the news conference regarding the machete attack Friday night (March 20) inside the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport starts here:
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu: "We're going to learn a lot from this incident."
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand: "We accomplished a lot of things last night with assistance of Kenner police, FBI, ATF and others."
Normand clarifies some inaccuracies reported by sheriff's office last night. Says no traveler was grazed by a bullet as originally reported. TSA agent was being chased by Richard White as he waved the machete. JSPO lieutenant's first shot wounded female TSA agent when bullet passed through White and struck agent in tricep.
Suspect White left a bag in the concourse that produced "a gas smell," Normand said. Suspect was not a taxi driver as originally believed. Bomb squad found smoke bombs inside White's car, along with tanks in trunk of acetylene, freon and oxygen. Inside his bag left in concourse were six molotov cocktails, a barbecue lighter, and smoke bombs.
"He's been unconscious. He is alive. We hope to talk to him. We don't know if that's going to happen," Normand said. Family has told authorities of mental illness, but also of a cool, calm demeanor. Wife and children have been permitted to see White in hospital, the sheriff said, because they have been so cooperative.
"All the folks at the checkpoint did everything humanly possible to protect the public," Normand said. "They stood their ground as much as they could, and caused some confusion where he turned back down the security lane. Had he made it down the concourse, who knows?"
Acting TSA Administrator Mel Carraway: "A lot of lives were saved. What Officer Sylve (JPSO Lt. Heather Sylve) did was instinct. ... I'm so proud of
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
TSA are not cops. They have no arrest authority and do not carry firearms (thank goodness!). Now there will be more calls from DHS and assorted fools to give TSA law enforcement authority. You think TSA is bad now...
I didn’t realize they had other agents there.
That said, most of the TSA agents I have met have been very nice and actually a little embarrassed about some of their duties. There have been some officious flakes, but most of them are just doing their job. The procedure is awful, however, and every time I come back into the country from a trip abroad and have to spend an hour in the reentry security line at Atlanta, it makes me crazy...even though there is one charming agent who always comes out and makes us feel better with his jokes. So I don’t blame them, I blame the process.
However, I have never ever thought they’d be on their toes if there were an attack, and I’m not even sure they’re armed. So I’m glad to hear somebody is backing them up.
not agents but local police that’s who shot him . TSA ran and got hacked
here's a clue :Government is not the solution to problems : Government IS the problem.
Facebook page said he’s from Saudi Arabia. AND that he went to some ‘Tits’ show the day before. Isn’t that what they do before they meet the 72 virgins??
I’m not proud of the TSA and I think the whole thing is ridiculous and has not stopped a single terrorist but has held up a lot of innocent travelers.
However, they aren’t evil people, but just people who are doing a job - and some of them do it better than others. If they have to do it and we have to endure it, I’d much rather have a nice black person (in Atlanta) than a hostile veiled Muslim (in NYC) patting me down for some unknown reason. But the whole job is meaningless. So I’m not defending the job, just simply the fact that the people who do it aren’t automatically evil.
I see too much “uniform hatred” here on FR, where anybody wearing any uniform is considered evil. Oddly enough, this is the same as the leftist opinion...but then again, extremes meet.
There are places you can't buy pepper spray.
That’s true. I knew somebody who carried “bear spray” in her glove compartment and almost killed herself when she accidentally set it off. Ooops!
These things can be quite effective.
“Inside his bag left in concourse were six molotov cocktails, a barbecue lighter, and smoke bombs.”
Must have been inspired by the Gun’s and Roses song, “Night Train.”
Loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight
(look out)
Well I’m a west coast struttin’
One bad mother
Got a rattlesnake suitcase
Under my arm
Said I’m a mean machine
Been drinkin’ gasoline
An honey you can make my motor hum
Well, I got one chance left
In a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An I can tell you honey
You can make my money tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyf8oRF6Trg
Until they go to a strip club they don't have a clue.
Bear spray is usually just pepper spray in a bigger can.
Report says he may have died partially due to refusing some types of medical care.
People are very odd. Blood transfusions may be against his faith, but I can guarantee you so are blowing people up and chopping them with machetes.
you either think government is the problem or the solution .
it's obvious what you think you are pro government
the government,democrat party and media have caused all the problems we have in this country
They are even in the process of regulating the Internet with socialist Soros net neutrality laws. that is what your pretend middle of the road leads to . not naming the enemy and treating as the enemy leads to what is happening that they (the gov /democrats/media ) are taking away all our freedom and opportunities in America.
You give them a milimeter and they take it all and they are . when have we who don't trust government ever won anything? never. government is advancing every week for the last 100 years. when has government been rolled back? never. every year there are more laws, more regulations , more programs , more agencies, more government : all of which leads to less freedom and less prosperity.
when government advances individual freedom recedes and so does prosperity.
you people (marxists ) don't realize the danger we are in and the missed opportunities we had in this country. you think 18 trillion $ this marxist Obama has piled on us won't destroy us? what about all Obama’s crimes . you seem ok with all this
ha
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