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    2 months ago

    police are describing as a car-ramming attack

    Call it what it is please.

    Terrorism.

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        2 months ago

        The murderer was not the race you seem to be assuming by this post btw.

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          No name was mentioned in the article. The driver being cleared of “terorrism” this quickly almost always means one thing.

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            2 months ago

            A quick Google search will pull up names and pictures. The dude is Asian, and I think potentially Filipino himself.

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      2 months ago

      They are saying that attacker has mental health issues. He may not hate Philippinos specifically, but hating people in general is apparently not terrorism.

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        2 months ago

        Just copying it into here cause I’m getting tired of the comments:

        "A surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims. "

        As far as we and the police know, there was no political or religious agenda here. Again, as far as they know, this was not a planned attack. This is fucked up and really fucking heartbreaking situation but it is not, by definition, a terrorist attack.

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        It’s been used as a political hammer for a long time. For example, cartels operate like business, but are qualified as terrorist organizations by the US.