Terrorism is not being ruled out in a gruesome attack on two Washington D.C. police officers and a third victim that mirrored similar ISIS-inspired massacres by jihadists in Europe, where large vehicles are being utilized as the weapons of choice.
The officers were patrolling on bicycles in the neighborhood of Adams Morgan when the driver of a pickup truck rammed them at a high rate of speed, dragging one victim up to 30 feet before crashing into a garbage truck, according to reports.
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Witness tells @ABC7TimBarber he saw truck going about 50 mph before it hit people, then garbage truck. Driver, passenger inside that truck
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Pickup truck that hit @DCPoliceDept officers crashed into dump truck in front of our house.
Took 5 minutes for 911 to pick up my call.
During a press conference, Chief of Metropolitan Police Peter Newsham was asked if the crime was being treated as terrorism, to which he responded, “We have to look at that very closely. We do not have a motive at this time.”
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Update from 18th Street incident
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Update from 18th Street incident pscp.tv
Two suspects were arrested at the scene, and an unregistered firearm was confiscated, according to ABC 7. Unconfirmed reports are that the weapon may have been an AK-47.
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Charges: crash in Adams Morgan
23 yr old Dwayne Taylor: Poss Unreg firearm, 22 yr old Brandon Figures-Mormon: Assault w/ intent to kill
Poster Comment:
Maybe these are not Jihadists. Maybe they are black people. But we cannot say they are black until the Fake News Media tells us they are black and were deprived of AK-47s and heroin in their childhood.