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wtf were the police doing?......plenty of time for them to ram the car.
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Its ok it wasnt terror related apparently.
As though terror is now a word that instigates emotion of control over a set of people. When non terror killings outnumber terror killings. Strange world innit? |
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The police say the man is known to them, and has a long history of family violence, drug issues and mental health problems.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-38685972 |
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Sounds like he could qualify to be a regular on Chit Chat.
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police just watching him do burnouts and then let him drive off
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and shouting allahu akbar....wtf. didnt it cross their minds he might use car as a weapon?....ffs
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No doubt that they will say they didn't want to put any lives at risk by shooting at the car.
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BBC thought it best not to include this..
https://twitter.com/HobartMick/status/822362295837683712  |
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wtf
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Rofl, good old beeb.
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the ENEMEDIA are still throwing the fuel on that pyre
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shirley he didn't shout those words??
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It seems some people have a lust for any incident to be related to a certain religion.
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I think people are concerned that the media fail the report the full facts to the public.
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some folk just cant wait to get the version they prefer
from mail, express or sun |
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so don......you think the witness was making it up?
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These two support the brothers -they want more of them in the uk.
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but thank goodness it wasn't a Daesh attack.
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Try reading this... he was off his head on drugs..
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/melbourne-cbd-rampage-driver-dimitrious-gargasoulas-allegedly-warned-ill-take-you-all-out-in-chilling-facebook-post/news-story/ef8fb8e22b50437ddbbde4c0795feec1 |
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so breedin...........you think the witness was making it up?
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At least we know it has absolutely NOTHING to do with Islam.
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Is the suggestion being made here that the murders become more significant if he said certain words as he carried them out?
Therefore if he didnt say certain words the murders are of lesser significance? What if he said a word similar or didnt believe in the word but said it anyway? |
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he clearly wanted to join the allahu akbar killing club
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Wanna Bee slim Drugged up Kills innocents
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Broadsword, you need to get with modern democracy.
He was forced to yell or made it up. He clearly was suffering from mental illness, that illness that we know about. Read write repeat. |
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VICTORIA’S most senior police officer has conceded officers failed to stop the rampaging car driver before he reached Bourke St Mall and drove into dozens of people.
The action, or inaction, of police in the hours leading up to the carnage in central Melbourne will be examined by the coroner, Police Commissioner Graham Ashton said, as a question mark hangs over whether the tragedy could have been prevented. Four people were killed and dozens injured after 26-year-old Dimitrious “Jimmy” Gargasoulas allegedly drove his Commodore into packed city streets. Several of the injured, including a three-month old baby, are still fighting for their lives. At a media conference in Melbourne on Saturday Mr Ashton and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews faced a barrage of questions about police involvement with Gargasoulas. |
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What his Mother said.
She said the fight, which saw Jimmy allegedly stab his brother in the face, was over Angelo’s sexuality. “Jimmy keeps saying to me, I’m going to kill all gays and poofters and lesbians,” she said. Gargasoulas’ girlfriend, Akiir Muo, has also spoken of the horror, saying she was held hostage by her partner during his wild crime spree. “He was driving really erratically ... he kept saying it was the end of the world and how he planned to run over people in the city because the police were following us,” she told the Herald Sun. “When I found out he actually killed people I just went into shock. I started crying and thought, “Jimmy what have you done”.” |
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The 3 month old baby passed away this morn
 OP - not sure where you are from but Melbs is my home. Swanston st and the Bourke st mall are no places to be intentionally ramming cars, especially at lunch time on a business day. I feel for the cops here, no good choices on offer to them and there was no way for them to know at the time this nutjob would go so far. The main issue here is that he was out on bail despite police protests he was a danger. RIP to the 5 lost. |
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surely could have been rammed in that big area he was driving in circles or earlier considering he was a suspect in a stabbing......but they decided to "back off"
i read in one report that theyd been tracking him for 2 hours. |
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probably worried about his rights and how he identified himself.
And no doubt a straight A student and promising young footballer. It has to stop right here and right now. It really does. poor, poor people. Let down again by our lily livered politicos. |
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Has any lefty media outlet informed us yet that this fine young man was known to his many pals as Lleyton 'Thorpey' Cash-Rafter ?
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I can now reveal he was shouting F**k THE WORLD..not exactly what other posters hoped he was shouting ,,..
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^ Makes a change from F**K Trump too
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Religious nutjob, burnt a bible while nicking the car.
"He claimed to be 'Greek Islamic Kurdish' and a follower of Yazdanism, the native religion of the Kurds before the arrival of Islam, also know as the 'cult of Angels'. " He does look more Arabic than Greek tbf. |
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HIS rights ahead of anyone elses - just the sort of thing bleeding mad supports
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mobo still one eyed crusading on the misery of others
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What makes it worse is there is a "no pusuit" policy ,so even though he was not being pressed he still drives into a crowd of innocent people .Had already stabbed his brother for being gay and drove a fair distance to the city .
Police tried to stop him on a bridge but failed due to safety concerns when he was doing donuts he should have been tactically rammed and hemmed in but due to the law if it went wrong the cops would cop . unconfirmed reports saying he was a recent convert to Islam ...which could well be correct imo . Suspect this was all about Melbourne hosting the AO and to grab headlines ,terrorist event whatever way you want to call it but it should hopefully all come out in the wash. the nicey nicey approach is not working ,if its terror related take emm out |
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so aussie police should consult chit chat forum and if given the nod.....
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is that to me ?
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unconfirmed reports saying he was a recent convert to Islam ...which could well be correct imo .
The Slim Connections are building |