New Orleans revelers narrowly escape path of speeding truck in 'tactic of choice among terrorists': expert
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A video from Bourbon Street in New Orleans shows Shamsud-Din Jabbar driving a pickup truck toward a crowd of revelers, who narrowly escape the path of the fast-moving vehicle on New Year's Day.
"A 500-pound vehicle going at a high rate of speed in an urban area is utterly devastating. And it's very clear the trend is that this is becoming — this tactic of choice among terrorists globally, because recently we've seen a proliferation of these," Paul Mauro, Fox News contributor and former NYPD inspector, told Fox News Digital. "We do have to accept the fact that they made mistakes." "It's a tragedy in New Orleans." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
Mauro added that police departments across the nation have shifted their standard operating procedures because "it's no longer enough to wait for the feds to do their counterterrorism."