(3 Jan 2025)
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Southern California – 3 January 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Levin, terrorism and hate crime expert:
“Well, we’ve seen multiple, multiple events besides the January 1st ones involving violent extremism threats. And what I would say right now, where we’re at is everything everywhere, all at once.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Levin, terrorism and hate crime expert:
“What we know about the New Year’s Day perpetrators, one who exploded the Cybertruck in Las Vegas, the other who attacked pedestrians on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, both had fairly recent broken relationships.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Levin, terrorism and hate crime expert:
“And people who are under stress and have no support system and who are estranged and come from a tradition of presumed excellence and bravery, what happens when they feel that they are in some way falling short? We don’t know exactly because we haven’t interviewed these people, but both of them ended up dying in the acts that they perpetrated. Which tells me that these are people who had stressors and distress that was far more than something merely ideological.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Levin, terrorism and hate crime expert:
“We have almost a perfect storm where the hockey puck isn’t just coming from center ice. It’s coming from the stands. It’s coming from the ceiling. And the goalies that are trying to prevent terrorism have to look at the public health aspect, the accessibility of weaponry, the Internet, and how we don’t intervene when people are communicating violent intentions and the absence of available off ramps for those who are the most risky. And we’re doing this at a time when we’re the most polarized and we have the most voluminous number of conflicts around the world that we’ve seen in decades.”
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STORYLINE:
Investigators now believe the driver who barreled through a crowd of New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans acted alone.
Meanwhile, a highly decorated Army soldier who died in an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was stunt to serve as “wakeup call” for the country’s ills.
The FBI said Thursday that the New Orleans suspect posted several videos on social media just before the attack proclaiming his support for the Islamic State group.
The FBI is calling Wednesday’s attack that left 14 victims dead an act of terrorism. The driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, also died in a shootout with police.
The rampage occurred on Bourbon Street, which had been filled with New Year’s Eve revelers and crowds gathered ahead of the Sugar Bowl college football playoff game. The game at the Superdome was postponed until Thursday afternoon.
In the other News Year’s Day attack, ivestigators said Friday that Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, apparently harbored no ill will toward President-elect Donald Trump.
Clark County sheriff’s officials said Livelsberger also wrote in the note that he needed to “cleanse my mind” of the lives lost of people he knew and “the burden of the lives I took.”
The New Year’s Day explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but virtually no damage to the hotel.
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