London Knife Attacker Identified; Public Lauds Narwhal Tusk Takedown

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Metropolitan Police in London have confirmed that 28-year-old Usman Khan was the attacker who killed two people and wounded three others with a knife on London Bridge Friday before police shot and killed him.

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Police said they were called to Fishmonger's Hall shortly before 2 p.m. local time, where Khan had attended a conference on criminal justice and prisoner rehabilitation, called "Learning Together," run by the University of Cambridge's Institute of Criminology. Khan had been wearing a fake suicide vest, police said, adding that the attack started inside Fishmonger's Hall. Khan stabbed "a number of people" inside the hall, police said, and The Times reported that one of the two killed died inside the hall.

"I am devastated to learn that today's hateful attack on London Bridge may have been targeted at staff, students and alumni," University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor Stephen Toope said in a statement posted online.

Police said Khan then left the building and moved to London Bridge, where he continued his attack before being apprehended by bystanders, one armed with a narwhal tusk, another with a fire extinguisher. Videos of the attack posted online show Khan being sprayed by a fire extinguisher as another man jabs forward with the tusk.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/30/783850385/london-knife-attacker-identified-public-lauds-narwhal-tusk-takedown

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[SonofDonald]

1. I'm reminded of that old saying

"Balls of British Steel"

Good on you man

[Rustyeye77]

2. Lock him up and throw away the key.

But you have to ask what kind of societal pressures in the UK that these people are under that they just want to kill.

Ive heard they arent treated very well in the UK. i heard they live in ghetto like conditions being forced to live under onerous laws.

I know they want to live under sharia laws.

They come to the UK looking for fairness and what do thet get?

[Mariana]

3. What's the exact percentage of "these people" that just want to kill?

Do you have a figure?

[Rustyeye77]

5. I have no idea

hoprfully near zero

[Igel]

11. I think the easiest reading of that line

is that "these people" is completely limited by "who want to kill", so if there are 5 of them that want to kill then the phrase means "those five people." That makes it a small number for whatever population you want to consider them a part of--males, Muslims, people of color, circumcised males, British citizens, English speakers, those who avoid pork, European residents, mammals, or eukaryotic organisms.

Other readings require squinting and not noticing some words.

[Jake Stern]

4. Poor, poor terrorist

He wasn’t tweeted fairwy by the big mean British government. It’s all their fault, amirite?

[Rustyeye77]

6. Laugh if you want..

but people are dying .

You have to look for the root causes.

[DanieRains]

14. Take Your Pick

Why would someone vote to take health insurance from 23,000,000 .. 23 million people.

Other people's lives are expendable. Period.

Jesus Allah Greed Power

$$$$$$$$$$$

[cwydro]

7. You might want to read up on this guy.

He’d already been convicted of terroristic acts.

And they don’t need to lock him up. He’s dead.

[Rustyeye77]

8. good point

[emmaverybo]

9. They have Sharia family courts, which can be unfair to women. But nevertheless they have them.

It is actually an insult to many who are socially and economically discriminated against to insist on
the myth that ISIS actors are poor and ghettoized. Many are well employed and from middle class, even upper middle class.

[Polybius]

20. "They come to the UK looking for fairness and what do thet get?"

The UK has among the "fairest" laws in all of Europe, yet they have among the most radicalized.

[Rustyeye77]

25. OK.... so why is that ?

Obviously the people that do this are not happy about how they are treated .

So unhappy they want to kill people.

[Polybius]

27. The ones who kill can stay in their own countries

Those ones kill because they support Isis, and are radical extremists. There is no helping them. They won't be satisfied unless everyone converts. Fuck 'em.

[oldsoftie]

21. Learn to assimilate like people have done in most countries for hundreds of years.

Or dont bother coming. Its that simple. Sadiq Khan is Mayor of London. He's Pakistani; 1st generation British. Born into a working class family. HE made it. He put being British first. Do that. Wherever you are.

[moondust]

10. 2008: "I ain't no terrorist."

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-50615948/london-bridge-attacker-in-2008-i-ain-t-no-terrorist

Much like a mass shooter in the U.S., one day he "ain't no terrorist" and the next day he is. Too bad gun sellers don't have crystal balls.

[James48]

12. But- was that a good guy with a narwhale tusk?9&

Or a bad guy with a narwhale tusk?

I’m so confused.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Smart idea to SPRAY with a fire extinguisher to subdue. . . . nt

[Talitha]

15. I don't get this...

Does it seem strange to anyone else besides me that the bystanders were in posession of such odd implements?

Maybe things have changed since the last time I was in London 6 years ago, but I never saw "bystanders, one armed with a narwhal tusk, another with a fire extinguisher."

WTF?

[FailureToCommunicate]

18. They were all inside a building -attending a conference- where these heroes grabbed

something, anything, to subdue this knife wielding killer. It just happened to be a decorative tusk and a fire extinguisher. But then they chased him out and surrounded him while a third guy tackled the terrorist to the ground.

[Talitha]

23. Thanks FTC and csziggy!

I couldn't originally click on the link or open the video.
All I could read was the OP's newsclip, but it makes sense now.
Thanks again!

[csziggy]

19. The attack began in the Fisherman's Hall

The people who got the man under some sort of control got the items there - at least that is where the narwhal tusk came from:

"In other footage, someone is seen spraying the attacker with a fire extinguisher, while someone else hits him with a large white pole, reportedly a narwhal horn he grabbed off the wall at Fishmongers' Hall, a witness said on Twitter."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-bridge-attack-heroes-narwhal-tusk-fire-extinguisher-video-terrorism-a9227146.html

The attack seems to have started there:

"In the early hours of Saturday, officers confirmed earlier reports that Khan began his attack inside Fishmongers’ Hall, near the north end of the bridge, during a University of Cambridge-organised conference on rehabilitating offenders. Officers believe he acted alone.

“The circumstances, as we currently understand them, are that the attacker attended an event earlier on Friday afternoon at Fishmongers’ Hall called ‘Learning Together’. We believe that the attack began inside before he left the building and proceeded onto London Bridge, where he was detained and subsequently confronted and shot by armed officers,” said the Met police assistant commissioner, Neil Basu."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/29/london-bridge-police-shoot-stabbing-suspect-after-five-injured

[Lulu KC]

16. Two words: NARWHAL TUSK

Another two: Fishmongers Hall

What a story!

[Iggo]

30. Two of the main things you can mong: hate and fish.

[Polybius]

17. Here's his ugly mug

[Jake Stern]

22. Gah!

That's one scary looking mothertrucker.

[Beringia]

24. This strikes me as islamophobic, many people have this appearance

[Polybius]

28. He's still ugly

Trim those bushy eyebrows, he was in his 20's in that pic.

[greytdemocrat]

31. He was a POS

and he's dead.

[usaf-vet]

26. So in England all it take is a good guy with a Narwhal Tusk to take down a perp.

[Iggo]

29. Fuck yeah !!!