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Ben Cohen speaks out after he was wrongly identified as the Bondi Westfield knifeman
Daily Mail (Australia/UK) ^

Posted on 04/13/2024 8:06:49 PM PDT by naturalman1975

A Sydney university student claims he was sent 'thousands' of messages after he was wrongly identified as the knifeman behind a horrific attack that saw six innocent shoppers killed.

Ben Cohen, a 20-year-old first-year computing science student at the University of Technology, was accused of stabbing shoppers at Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon.

New South Wales Police Minister Yasmin Catley has since identified 40-year-old Queensland man Joel Cauchi as the man who attacked shoppers with a knife.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; bondi; bondijunction; bondiwestfield; cauchi; joelcauchi; massstabbing; misidentification; misnamed; queensland; stabbing; stabbingspree
I've seen at least one person here on FR repeating the wrong information that the knifeman was this young Jewish man here on FR. Not blaming them - when something is being widely shared, some people will repeat it in good faith with no ill intent.

But I do think it's important to also get the information out that this was wrong.

1 posted on 04/13/2024 8:06:49 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

It’s all over our side of twitter. Like a Jewish person was going to do what mooselims have pretty much perfected. Right Wing Twitter has a moron problem with the qtards, and the wHaT d0 YoU nO0tICE? grifters, and flat earth crowd and the rest of the assorted “everything is fake” assclowns.


2 posted on 04/13/2024 8:19:03 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: naturalman1975

The Aussies have a knife violence problem. Time to outlaw knives.


3 posted on 04/13/2024 8:29:17 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: HighSierra5

We’re likely going to deal with our left-wing crazies saying that, yeah.


4 posted on 04/13/2024 8:34:44 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: HighSierra5

“That’s not a knife … Now THIS, THIS is a knife …” (/Obscure line from Crocodile Dundee)


5 posted on 04/13/2024 9:47:54 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Celebrate Climate Change !!!)
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To: naturalman1975

What this intentional misdirection by subversives, Muslim sympathizers or Muslims?


6 posted on 04/13/2024 10:05:30 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: naturalman1975

If he SHAVED he wouldn’t look like an Islamic terrorist.


7 posted on 04/14/2024 8:12:24 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: naturalman1975

It was very wrong indeed - how shocking that someone would be targeted like that.


8 posted on 04/14/2024 7:18:13 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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