In a video, the bystander was seen running up to the attacker from behind and then grabbing the shotgun from him before pointing the weapon back at him.
A bystander hailed a hero after he tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen in the Bondi Beach shooting is a shop owner.
The man, named by a relative as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, was seen in a video running up to the attacker from behind and then grabbing the shotgun from his hands before pointing the weapon back at him.
The footage then showed the terrorist heading towards a bridge where another gunman was located, while the bystander placed the gun beside a tree.
45 Comments
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 144 pts · 261d
Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him "Edward Crabtree" and cover up the fact that he's Muslim
x00z@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 261d
Holy shit that's awful.
https://bestlagos.ng/fact-check-is-edward-crabtree-the-real-bondi-hero/
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 260d
MAGAs are perfectly willing to lie to advance their agenda, they think lying and cheating are perfectly legitimate tools. If their opponents choose to not use those strategies out of sense of morality, that's on them. MAGAs feel no obligation to comply.
This will be the first election where AI and deep fakes are fully available. I've been waiting for this moment, and here it is. Which party will embrace deep fakes, and try to run campaign ads featuring their opponents saying and doing fraudulent things? I think we all know.
zd9@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 261d
who cares what online racist dweebs think or say about anything?
frongt@lemmy.zip · 64 pts · 261d
A lot of people, unfortunately
zd9@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 261d
and who's that?
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 260d
Voters
shalafi@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 260d
I do because it affects our politics. Where do you think Trump came from? Born straight out of Fox News propaganda.
zd9@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 260d
Most of them at the beginning of any operation are Russian/Iranian bots (both real people and LLMs) whose entire job it is to rile people up and get the MAGA-types to latch on and grow the sentiment organically. But again, who cares what they say? Just ignore or silence them as quickly and cleanly as possible.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 260d
All true! But in the end, they still affect my life, so I do have to care what's said, even if it is a bot or a filthy Russian.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 260d
Voters care what they say. Them being bots doesn't diminish the influence they have on politics
zd9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d
Eh sure. A healthy democracy requires informed voters, and America is kinda the king of... not that.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 260d
Yeah, a Muslim being the hero in stopping other Muslims from killing Jews really messes up their preferred narrative.
"What am I supposed to do with THIS?!". - Israeli Department of Propaganda
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 260d
How do you know he’s Muslim? Lots of Arabs are Christian, some non religious.
Doorbook@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 260d
Ahmed is the Muslim prophet nickname. But he could be atheist.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 260d
Children usually dont decide what their parents name them...
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 261d
On another platform, someone claimed he was maronite christian. I guess I'll have to wait until someone asks him in an interview. 🤷
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 260d
This seems unlikely. Ahmed comes from the same root as Muhammad. His cousin was interviewed and named Mustapha, also an epithet of Muhammad. I don't know too much about Maronite Christian naming conventions, but these two names have a pretty explicit association with Muhammad in Arabic.
yesman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
WATI thought you meant that the right wing was covering up the religion of the attacker, not the hero, sorry.
JaymesRS@piefed.world · 109 pts · 261d
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a fruit store.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 35 pts · 261d
Seriously though, this brave man proves that you don't need a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. We need fewer guns, not more.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 260d
If fruit stores are outlawed only outlaws will have fruit stores.
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 45 pts · 260d
Who shot him? I'm assuming the terrorist. Or was it the cops?
deathbysnusnu@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 260d
The other terrorist.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 260d
This doesn't clear up whether it was the police who shot him or not...
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 260d
Yeah, I'm a little unclear on that, too. It seems like he disarmed the first shooter, and the second shooter must have shot the hero from the bridge. I think that's what happened. Somehow one shooter (Dad) ended up dead, and the other (Son) wounded, but I'm not sure which was which.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 260d
Bet the republikkkans won't call this man a hero. He isn't white.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 260d
And he didn’t have a gun himself. Breaking their myth that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 260d
What about a good guy who takes away the bad guy's gun? That's new territory for rationalizationists.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 260d
Idk why, but it totally feels like he should be the gun's new owner now.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 260d
That's how it works in video games. I'm all for it. It would be a nice trophy to hang on the wall.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 260d
Dad lived a life of violence when he was young. He advised me to attack the weapon, not the man. This guy focused on the weapon, not beating ass. Good on him.
breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 260d
Your dad is right — but if you only go for the business end of the weapon, then a simple rotation can put you in front of the business end. You want to stay on the end towards the enemy, and keep your body towards their body.
Go for the hands, and turn your body into their body. Use that leverage to wrest the weapon. Obviously easier said than done. Somehow Ahmed did it perfectly.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 260d
I like how the media is hammering in the identity of the hero not because of "DEI" or "wokeness", but to counter the obvious bad faith right wing actors that would spread fake news.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 260d
They already do, after Grok (of course) hallucinated them a new white hero, and they're using AI to edit that nonexistent guy into the photos.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d
What did sniper tf2 know that we don't?
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/17/Sniper_taunts17.wav
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 260d
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 261d
Really wish the guy had at least shot the murderer in his hands, so he not only has to live his life out in prison, but can't jerk off comfortably.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 260d
He was able to do what he could do. Believe me when I say that there's absolutely a wall that most people never hit when it comes to shooting a living being, human or not. Most people never hit that wall, because they never seek out the activities that would cause you to hit that wall. I couldn't shoot my first deer. Shooting my first human was a bit easier, as I actually shot them, but still caused hesitation. I don't know about the second human or second animal, and I hope I never find out. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I suspect I will have to shoot more people to survive.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 260d
I've heard lots of soldiers are traumatized by having to kill. WW2 has seen bloody battles where many soldiers never actually fired a rifle. It's hard for a healthy, well adjusted human to kill another human being, and it's supposed to be. It sucks that war forces us to go against this nature.
I will never blame someone for not killing, even when killing would have been justified, or even laudable.
comador@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 261d
Nah, I'm a stern believer of forced castration for people like this. Shoot his junk off.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 260d
That's a regressive way of thinking. Revenge doesn't actually feel good once you are done, it feels wrong. Put them in a rehabilitative program so that they will learn why what they did was wrong, and how much harm they did to themselves and others.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -7 pts · 260d
Nah, revenge feels pretty damn good.
Do the rehabilitation thing because it's the civilised thing to do, not because it feels better. It doesn't, we're still violent stupid monkeys, not that deep inside.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
Maybe to you it does.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
Genuinely sick.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 261d
I could get on board with that.