Bondi Beach terror survivor describes how cops 'froze' during 20-minute shooting rampage
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  • 261 points Left4DayZGone

    It’s worse.

    One of the shooters was being watched by the feds, but deemed “not an active threat”.

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    31 points Suspicious-Sound-249

    Every fucking time...

    At least our three letter agencies aren't the only ones that are completely useless.

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  • 209 points JumpKP

    You could clearly tell from the videos that the police showed total incompetancy in their response.

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    235 points FreddyMartian

    leftists: "civilians don't need firearms, that's why we have police"

    also leftists: "police are corrupt, evil and incompetent and should be defunded"

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    32 points TedriccoJones

    And trained in deescalation and social work rather than combat and tactics.

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    15 points North-Currency-1572

    I think it's a little more: civilians don't need firearms if all white men and MAGA are locked up

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  • 379 points ITrCool

    So let me get this straight:

    1. Australian citizens can’t carry protection for self defense
    2. Australian citizens likely will face jail and prosecution for acting on self defense of any kind, same as Canada
    3. Australian authorities who are supposed to be there to serve and protect did neither, if what this witness says is true

    ……..do we see what’s wrong with this picture, mates?

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    158 points Evilsmile

    Bro, Australia is one of those places you can't even own pepper spray. The stuff we give teenage girls to fend off creeps is considered a "dangerous weapon".

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    28 points Shot3ways

    Yeah, it is dangerous. To rapists. They just want to be able to molest children in peace.

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    76 points Mylabisawesome

    Australian citizens likely will face jail and prosecution for acting on self defense of any kind, same as Canada

    I wonder what will happen to the guy who disarmed one of the shooters

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    74 points Hectoriu

    I know a guy stomped the suspect while he was on the ground. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets charged with assault..

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    22 points Alpha-Sierra-Charlie

    Because his actions have been so universally lauded, probably nothing unless he says anything they can construe as racist.

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    27 points ITrCool

    Wouldn't doubt we hear news (likely suppressed) about him facing some sort of misdemeanor charges along with whatever the perp faces. I'll be genuinely shocked if the Australian authorities uphold him as a hero in any way.

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    5 points -spartacus-

    Supposedly, he was arrested, but there is a lot of misinformation going around on the shooting so I wouldn't put much credibility in the rumor until more information is shared.

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    35 points Device_whisperer

    Australia was lost to the Woke revolution years ago.

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    17 points North_Moment5811

    It’s literally a poster for the second amendment. 

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    5 points Alpha-Sierra-Charlie

    Obviously guns, duh! Ban them even more!

    I'd put the /s, but there are morons who actually think that. Well, "think" is probably a bit too generous. There are morons who say that because that's their programmed response.

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    -7 points Hearts-Heroes

    WE do, but the Boomers in charge are too busy getting their Depends changed to see it.

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  • 56 points ChirrBirry

    From the video I saw(the one looking at the bridge), the shooters were moving from cover in a way that made them pretty easy targets for any half decent shooter with a normal service rifle. The video was also wild because the person filming had a wide open shot from elevation…basically where the cops should have been.

    I’m assuming the shooters were firing slugs because they both were using shotguns. That’s a frightening thing to get hit by and explains the number of dead…but also makes the slow resolution time even more damning for Australian police.

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    17 points RontoWraps

    Soooo many careers are about to end in Australia. This is something heads roll for allowing to happen. Horrible readiness of your police force, intelligence whiff, it’s just all bad. RIP to the fallen.

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    43 points FourtyMichaelMichael

    Soooo many careers are about to end in Australia.

    Just like all the police in Uvalde that were fired or quit in shame?

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    1 points RontoWraps

    I was thinking more the policy setters. Heads of offices and such.

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  • 78 points SendMe143

    I thought maybe police there aren’t armed, but then the article says they started to return fire… after 20 minutes. 20 minutes??? The picture of the female cop with her hands up like she is surrendering is weird, because the guys appear to casually be walking by. Bizarre.

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    10 points FourtyMichaelMichael

    Video?!

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    8 points nolotusnotes

    https://x.com/Osint613/status/2000171325307117888

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    26 points FourtyMichaelMichael

    A. WOW the Australian police are amazingly incompetent. They almost shot that bystander (who did run up there for no good reason), failed to secure the area, and obviously allowed this to go on for 20 minutes.

    B. I found a photo of the female police with her hands up letting them walk past her, but no video yet.

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    16 points Total-Detective1094

    No they are not incompetent, did you see the way they would arrest people during covid lockdowns.

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    10 points nolotusnotes

    The civilians were no better.

    Totally dog-piled the wrong guy.

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    2 points FourtyMichaelMichael

    Which is why police secure scenes.

    The telling thing here is that civilians were able to swarm faster because they were far closer than the police.

    Cowards and incompetent.

    Oh they're real tough in numbers against their unarmed citizens though.

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  • 37 points BossJackson222

    Funny I actually saw a liberal here on Reddit tried to pull the "what happened to the good guy with a gun?" Trope lol. I was like… You do realize that you're NOT allowed to be a good guy with a gun in most of the places where these "actual" mass shootings happen right?

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  • 28 points Nectarine-Fast

    I will be curious what the sentiment of the general population of Australia is going to do. With the Strict gun laws and utter incompetence at the federal level shake things up or will it be swept under the rug because it was Jews that were slaughtered?

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    36 points Alpha-Sierra-Charlie

    They'll be screaming for "common sense gun regulations".

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    28 points FourtyMichaelMichael

    Shotguns about to be banned.

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    20 points Alpha-Sierra-Charlie

    Yup.

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    13 points RontoWraps

    Sweeping police training reform that will lose its edge after a couple years of complacency.

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    2 points UltraAirWolf

    The latter.

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  • 3 points UltraAirWolf

    Was incompetence or willful inaction?

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  • 11 points thatsryan

    I’ve seen this movie before.

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  • 7 points Key-Monk6159

    Like in the UK they were probably afraid to do anything out of fear of being called racist

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  • 4 points Polerize2

    the cops probably aren't allowed to do anything until given the go ahead which apparently takes a long ass time. Had they acted on their own they probably get fired or go to jail themselves.

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  • 1 points Blown89

    Australia brought this upon themselves.

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  • -36 points comfortable711

    The NYPD has their hands tied with a million regulations. That's why there's so much violent crime in NYC.

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    23 points ITrCool

    Wrong city, and country

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    5 points cliffotn

    Well, crocodile Dundee did spend time in New York City.

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    8 points ITrCool

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    4 points cliffotn

    Ha, that’s literally my favorite line of the entire movie.

    Next fav is the aboriginal dude who says “meh, needs garlic”.

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    6 points QnsConcrete

    What’s with the non-sequitur? Unless I’m missing something, NYPD was not involved in any way. And furthermore, NYC’s violent crime rate is lower than dozens of other places.

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