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Updated at 3.30pm
POLICE SAY A man drove into a group of people in New York City and then fled, leaving one person dead and several others injured, one critically.
Police say the driver targeted the victims in Queens and fled after striking them around 4.45am today (that’s 9.45am Irish time). Police are still searching for the driver.
Authorities say the people were at a hookah bar, and two people got into a fight and stabbed each other. Police say the vehicle hit the crowd after the dispute.
Police say the person who was critically injured and four others in stable condition were taken to an area hospital. The two people involved in the initial stabbing dispute were in stable condition.
A search for the driver is ongoing.
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Why is this news here?
@Joe Phillips:
Because a lot of Irish live in or travel to New York. Does that really have to be explained?
@Thought for Food: yes it does. A lot of irish live i n a lot of places where there are car crashes such as this. Why is this one news worthy .
@Joe Phillips: If it has to he explained then there’s probably no hope for you.
@Joe Phillips: So the racist trolls can wildly speculate and then slither back under their bridge when they’ve been proven wrong yet again.
@Terry McSweeney: For some weird reason people seem to be obsessed with America.The power of TV maybe?
@Cathal S Byrne: Judaism is a religion not a race, Are you saying Antisemitism isn’t racist?
@Francis Devenney: Judaism is a religion. Jewish is a race.
@Joe Phillips:
Because it has similarities with terrorists attacks carried out by ISIS. Until the facts are known the media doesn’t know whether It is ISIS or not but they elect to report on it as it will generate a lot of views and if it does turn out to be ISIS then it would look bad that they hadn’t reported it.
Surprising you couldn’t work that out all on your own. Even my kids understand that.
@Francis Devenney: Antisemitism is racism.
@Patty Cullinane: “Judaism is a religion. Jewish is a race” A large proportion of Jews are Ashkenazi descendants of Europeans who converted in the middle ages Their language and genealogy being quite different from the Semites of North Africa. So no they are not a homogeneous race. they are a group of peoples bound by a religious and cultural ideology almost indistinguishable from Islam. So you can’t have it both ways.
@Nick Allen: Oh would you shut up. We all know why it’s in the news here. Reporters are salivating at the prospect that someone might say the driver shouted ‘Allahu akbar’.
That and to remind people “hey remember when that did happen though”.
Aren’t your kids great?! They must learn from you
@Joe Phillips: well if you already knew the answer then what was the point of your first comment ..
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: to start a discussion about this kind of reporting, Siobhán. To try to stir something inside you to ask yourself “did they always report traffic incidents and every individual loss of life in New York here or is this a new thing and is there some sort of reasoning behind it?” That’s why.
@Joe Phillips: sorry… that was the point
@Cathal S Byrne: Which religions have a place in western countries? As most that I know,have their origins in the Middle East & Asia.
@Joe Phillips: why is your comment here ?
@Patty Cullinane: no. Jewish is not a race. Antisemitism is sectarianism, not racism..
@Joe Phillips: Because it would have been news here if the driver had shouted “Allah Akbar”. It’s just journalists trying to be fair and unbiased, I would say.
@Francis Devenney: I never said Jews were homogenous. I never said anything about Islam. I think you would have a difficult time convincing anyway with any sense that Jews are indistinguishable from Islam. You forgot to mention the Sephardic Jews. And yes….where Jews are concerned…you can have it both ways. They are an ethnoreligious, ethnic minority.
@Daffy the Bear: you are wrong. And that is just a “sugar coating” that antisemites like to use. Antisemitism is racism.
@Francis Devenney: Semitism – Semite is a person who speaks a semitic language.
Maltese included.
@Francis Devenney: tf did I just read??
@Justin Barrett: Keep telling yourself that
Hope it’s not what most people are thinking. RIP and thoughts to those injured and affected by this sad …. event
@Marc Power: I’m thinking that the police know more than I do so I believe them
@Marc Power: Which is, that it’s not terrorism as the article clearly explains what happened and why?
@Marc Power: you didn’t get beyond the headline did you?
@Ian Walsh: Ian…i seem to remember things being reported as one thing in the past and then turning out to be something else.
@Dave O Keeffe: Dave…. yes i did but i don’t need to explain anything to you smart ass
@Marc Power: well “what most people were thinking” was pretty much ruled out immediately after the headline
‘not terror related’ he must be white.
@Rob Foley: Yeah, Crazy especially when it says the driver Targeted, Surely terrorism
@Rob Foley: Are you trying to stereotype Muslims by saying they are all brown or something? Islam is one of the most racially diverse religions on earth. Derp.
@Sshh I’m Undercover: Oh you’re SO PC .Well done you.
@Kieran Conroy: Thanks fuk face.
@Sshh I’m Undercover: Islam is not a religion.It’s an ideology.Derp.
@Kieran Conroy: All religions are ideologies. They’re not mutually exclusive. Derp.
@Kieran Conroy: you need to look up the word ideology
@Sshh I’m Undercover: Who cares? Religion is just another name for mental illness anyway…..some are just more mentally ill than others.
Is a hookah bar for hookers ?? :)
@Declan Moran: don’t think you even need to play rugby
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