ABC TV in Australia reported that police evacuated shoppers at Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction.

A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.

New South Wales police said they believed a 40-year-old man was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, in the city’s eastern suburbs and not far from the world-famous Bondi Beach. They said they were not able to name him until a formal identification had taken place but that they weren’t treating the attack as terrorism-related.

The man was shot dead by a police inspector after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

  • papertowels@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’d say the reason the military did that is probably because they’re not shooting into crowds of inattentive, unsuspecting bystanders, and you can’t really compare military tactics to a dude shooting up a mall where folks are unarmed, but this is getting pretty far into the theoretical weeds.

    • VoroxpeteEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Actually the main reason they did it was because they were dealing with a problem of psychology that they were trying to solve with technology.

      Basically you’ve got a bunch of terrified conscripts who you’ve dragged off the streets and flown out into the middle of a jungle to fight a pointless war that they in no way care about or believe in.

      The lack of accuracy was a combination of piss poor training and blind screaming terror.

      The US military looked at this and said “Clearly the guns are the problem.”