Driver who killed 15 in New Orleans attack was inspired by ISIS



A man who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 15 people, had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage saying he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressing a desire to kill, the president said.

Annie Rose Ramos reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on Jan. 2, 2025.

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42 thoughts on “Driver who killed 15 in New Orleans attack was inspired by ISIS”

  1. Let's be clear about this. ISIS actively recruited this man.
    Last year he took a trip to Egypt. Why? He was born in Texas. Who did he know in Egypt?
    We know he also lived in a Muslim community. Are there radical Islamic factions actively recruiting Muslim Americans?

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  2. Trump spreading misinformation about our country …how is he an insurrectionist and a seditious traitor enter the White House …he is an oath breaker! He sold our national secrets to foreign enemies.

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  3. I know he is American. I just want to know his ethnicity and I can’t find ii. Is he Iranian American? Just because you are born in America does not make you culturally American. It doesn’t matter if he was in the military. There are so many people born in America of immigrant parents. They are intellectually American but they are not culturally American. It is difficult to explain.

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  4. A tragedy happened in New Orleans and yet it could have been even worse, as it was a few years ago when a truck attacked a boulevard in France. my heart is in sorrow for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina were almost 1,400 folks died, [global warming? my phrase, 1973] and so much of this wonderful city was destroyed. i started my professional juggling in New Orleans, that city understood and made me welcome, supported my anti sexist, anti racist, anti sexist and pro workers rights juggling shows. i was blessed by the Monsieur of Jackson square church, and 2 Rabbis, one Kabbalah, and a Voodoo woman and Medicine man! my work helped inter city kids start up the break dancing art form, yes that city was good to me! it was also a city pledged by too many drugs, sex for profit, too much alcohol, and violence and poverty, but a strong good community kept the city going struggling for the light! what happened is a tragedy and i want to offer heart felt condolences and prayers, but i also am forced to point out a sick awful pattern. i know of 5 mass shooting attributed to men of middle eastern decent [their may be more], but all of them worked for the government or had been close to a government program. the 2 young men accused of the terrible Boston marathon bombing, both were known to be lovers of America and working with some organization that was supposedly 'helping' America, were they patsies? the 2 middle eastern men that killed so many innocent folks and terrorized a town, Washington D.C.,the former police chief of Portland told me he was getting a 'cushy' job back east for going along with violating my privacy, and he would be a hero for solving a mass murder. the 2 shooters involved where from a town across the river from Portland, and had both had run in's with the Portland police? the terrible Orlando shooting was done by an ex New York police school graduate, the terrible shootings at Hood army base in Texas, were these guys used as some kind of Manchurian Candidates? i do not know and do not pretend to know, but I do not believe it is always the one gun man 'lone wolf' scenario we have been feed too many times! i am asking a question, and because i am so stalked, harassed and threatened, by illegal surveillance and it is done to steal my royalties worth Billions[ stairway to heavenly, yes i can fly, broken wings, Harry potty, DE Venice crap, game of crones, etc..] while i went through violence, poverty and injustice, i think we had better ALL ask questions! now a man of middle eastern decent, not an immigrant, a us citizen and Army former personal is again in the spot light, of course he had problems, everyone might at some time, but why this dreadful attack? why did tRump immediately and falsely blame immigrants? why did this happen on the heels of another tragedy the shooting in Madison from a school girl and like the other school female shooters before her, was she being molested? why as no one raised that alarm? why was she posed provocatively with a rifle while her dad [why did he have custody?] said 'we are having a wonderful time?' well she sure wasn't having a good time! and why was she called the 'kid-o' the people that stalk me use that phrase for horror done to kids! it may be innocent, why do we not ask? i do not know..i only know that all the years of injustice, cruelty, violence and poverty done to me, the ugliness of this misogyny have lead to a cruelty and despair that is eating at our nations heart, soul and prosperity! and far, far worse! with growing cancer rates and climate change! i demand answers, i demand the questions to be asked that everyone is afraid to ask! but above all i i demand the truth, restitution, freedom, privacy and to be paid my royalties, to Roberta May Hope Caster, and my kids, Hope under torture. i so miss the 6 members of my family that died before their time because i was used to steal royalties from! NO MORE! we are no buying their latest poncy scam, 'bit of coin' for those investing, the real coin is for those shoveling it! NO! i hang on under such harassment with safe, clean, renewable, safe, energy, while the cancer rates rise, violence escalates ,our freedom and rights are threatened, i endure death threats daily, NO! we MUST have my work, the worlds climate is changing and we need real change, but for the good! be active for what is REAL and Good, be HONEST, be non violent! a blessing on all the victims of injustice and violence, go in beauty all of you! ask why my life and privacy are violated while these monsters attacks are still going on? stop 'hurt the good' violation is not your job, stopping violence and injustice are! HOPE

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  5. Also just for clarification this is NOT islam and this is NOT what Us muslims do. ISIS AND ISLAM ARE NOT THE SAME IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM🗣Our Religion and our brothers and sisters are about peace Not violence. We do Not condone or support such disgusting heinous crimes.we do not support any type of violence. This is Not of US period. Please never Associate this Negative crap with Islam.

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  6. Posted on social media indicating he was inspired by ISIS? So like… hearsay and speculation?
    This is devastating, but why are you using it to create more hate for Muslims? You know exactly what you’re doing. I’m a Christian but why are we being conditioned to hate Islam again? Who has ‘WMD’ this time?

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