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.

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[–] 139 points 11 months ago (18 children)

Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him "Edward Crabtree" and cover up the fact that he's Muslim

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    who cares what online racist dweebs think or say about anything?

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I do because it affects our politics. Where do you think Trump came from? Born straight out of Fox News propaganda.

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  • [+] -9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    On another platform, someone claimed he was maronite christian. I guess I'll have to wait until someone asks him in an interview. 🤷

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    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.

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