Australian Teenager’s Attack on Police Worker Called Act of Terrorism

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/asia/australian-teenagers-attack-on-police-worker-called-act-of-terrorism.html?_r=0

A 15-year-old boy fatally shot a civilian police employee in a Sydney suburb on Friday and was killed by responding officers, the New South Wales police commissioner said, describing the boy’s act as terrorism.

The teenager, who was of Iraqi-Kurdish descent and was born in Iran, killed Curtis Cheng, a 17-year employee of the New South Wales Police Force who worked in the finance department, Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said at a news conference on Saturday.

The shooting took place just after 4:30 p.m. on Friday outside Police Headquarters in Parramatta, a western Sydney suburb, as Mr. Cheng left work. Police officers responding to the shooting said the teenager fired shots. The officers then shot and killed him. The police have not yet made his name public.

“We are a long way from establishing a full picture of this man, his exact motivations still remain a mystery to us,” Mr. Scipione said at the news conference, held with the state’s premier, Mike Baird. “We believe his actions were politically motivated and therefore linked to terrorism.”

[marym625]

1. Uhm, "this man"?

I'm not in anyway whatsoever excusing this horrific act, but a 15 year old described as a man?

I wish all guns were just melted down and no more were ever made.

[Fred Sanders]

2. 9 killed by 26 year old in Oregon? Mental illness of course! The T word is only for non-whites.

American air strikes kill innocents? Collateral damage! Any other nation? Indiscriminate slaughter!

Ignore the hypocrisy - "exceptionalism" comes with automatic immunity from hypocrisy!

Americans are as much stupid as they are thoroughly brainwashed.

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3. You noticed that too, huh? (nt)