Hero who tackled and disarmed Bondi Beach gunman is Sydney fruit shop owner
(news.sky.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 2025 19:15
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 2025 19:15
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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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Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him “Edward Crabtree” and cover up the fact that he’s Muslim
who cares what online racist dweebs think or say about anything?
A lot of people, unfortunately
and who’s that?
Voters
I do because it affects our politics. Where do you think Trump came from? Born straight out of Fox News propaganda.
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.
All true! But in the end, they still affect my life, so I do have to care what’s said, even if it is a bot or a filthy Russian.
Voters care what they say. Them being bots doesn’t diminish the influence they have on politics
Eh sure. A healthy democracy requires informed voters, and America is kinda the king of… not that.
WATI thought you meant that the right wing was covering up the religion of the attacker, not the hero, sorry.
Holy shit that’s awful.
bestlagos.ng/fact-check-is-edward-crabtree-the-re…
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.
On another platform, someone claimed he was maronite christian. I guess I’ll have to wait until someone asks him in an interview. 🤷
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.
How do you know he’s Muslim? Lots of Arabs are Christian, some non religious.
Ahmed is the Muslim prophet nickname. But he could be atheist.
Children usually dont decide what their parents name them…
Yeah, a Muslim being the hero in stopping other Muslims from killing Jews really messes up their preferred narrative.
“What am I supposed to do with THIS?!”. - Israeli Department of Propaganda
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a fruit store.
Seriously though, this brave man proves that you don’t need a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. We need fewer guns, not more.
If fruit stores are outlawed only outlaws will have fruit stores.
Really wish the guy had at least shot the murderer in his hands, so he not only has to live his life out in prison, but can’t jerk off comfortably.
Nah, I’m a stern believer of forced castration for people like this. Shoot his junk off.
I could get on board with that.
That’s a regressive way of thinking. Revenge doesn’t actually feel good once you are done, it feels wrong. Put them in a rehabilitative program so that they will learn why what they did was wrong, and how much harm they did to themselves and others.
Nah, revenge feels pretty damn good.
Do the rehabilitation thing because it’s the civilised thing to do, not because it feels better. It doesn’t, we’re still violent stupid monkeys, not that deep inside.
Maybe to you it does.
Genuinely sick.
He was able to do what he could do. Believe me when I say that there’s absolutely a wall that most people never hit when it comes to shooting a living being, human or not. Most people never hit that wall, because they never seek out the activities that would cause you to hit that wall. I couldn’t shoot my first deer. Shooting my first human was a bit easier, as I actually shot them, but still caused hesitation. I don’t know about the second human or second animal, and I hope I never find out. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I suspect I will have to shoot more people to survive.
I’ve heard lots of soldiers are traumatized by having to kill. WW2 has seen bloody battles where many soldiers never actually fired a rifle. It’s hard for a healthy, well adjusted human to kill another human being, and it’s supposed to be. It sucks that war forces us to go against this nature.
I will never blame someone for not killing, even when killing would have been justified, or even laudable.
Dad lived a life of violence when he was young. He advised me to attack the weapon, not the man. This guy focused on the weapon, not beating ass. Good on him.
Your dad is right — but if you only go for the business end of the weapon, then a simple rotation can put you in front of the business end. You want to stay on the end towards the enemy, and keep your body towards their body.
Go for the hands, and turn your body into their body. Use that leverage to wrest the weapon. Obviously easier said than done. Somehow Ahmed did it perfectly.
Who shot him? I’m assuming the terrorist. Or was it the cops?
The other terrorist.
This doesn’t clear up whether it was the police who shot him or not…
Yeah, I’m a little unclear on that, too. It seems like he disarmed the first shooter, and the second shooter must have shot the hero from the bridge. I think that’s what happened. Somehow one shooter (Dad) ended up dead, and the other (Son) wounded, but I’m not sure which was which.
Bet the republikkkans won’t call this man a hero. He isn’t white.
And he didn’t have a gun himself. Breaking their myth that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
What about a good guy who takes away the bad guy’s gun? That’s new territory for rationalizationists.
Idk why, but it totally feels like he should be the gun’s new owner now.
That’s how it works in video games. I’m all for it. It would be a nice trophy to hang on the wall.
I like how the media is hammering in the identity of the hero not because of “DEI” or “wokeness”, but to counter the obvious bad faith right wing actors that would spread fake news.
They already do, after Grok (of course) hallucinated them a new white hero, and they’re using AI to edit that nonexistent guy into the photos.
What did sniper tf2 know that we don’t?
wiki.teamfortress.com/w/…/Sniper_taunts17.wav