News: 15 Mar 2019 Christchurch NZ Mosque Shootings

[brihard]

Thankful that our society's views here in Canada aren't based on your hunches, intuition, and poor math regarding something different that scares you. Evidenced by the outpouring of grief and solidarity in light of such attacks.

Ok, I’ll bite. What is factually inaccurate about what he specifically said?

 

[The Bread Guy]

Thankful that our society's views here in Canada aren't based on your hunches, intuition, and poor math regarding something different that scares you...

Ok, I’ll bite. What is factually inaccurate about what he specifically said?

:nod:

More from NZ Police ...

Update 17: Christchurch terror attack; court appearance
Sunday, 17 March 2019 - 10:30pm

A 22-year-old man is due to appear in Christchurch District Court tomorrow morning (Monday) charged with offences under the Films Videos and Publications Classification Act.

This man was arrested by Police in the initial stages of the shooting investigation in Christchurch on Friday afternoon, but he is not being charged in relation to the attack. Police at this stage do not believe he was directly involved.

We would like to remind people that it is an offence to distribute or possess an objectionable publication (under the Films Videos and Publications Classifications Act 1993), which carries a penalty of imprisonment.

The live stream video of the shootings in Christchurch has been classified by the Chief Censor’s Office as objectionable.

A 28-year-old man remains in custody in relation to Friday’s events, charged with murder.

One other person arrested on Friday is facing charges not directly related to Friday’s events. They are in custody and those matters are currently before the court.

A fourth person was arrested, but was not charged with any offences.

ENDS

Police Media Centre

... as well as details on response times ...

... There has been some speculation around the Police response times to the first attack on Deans Ave on Friday.

To clarify, Police received its first 111 call at 1.41pm.

The first armed Police unit was on scene at 1.47pm.

That’s six minutes to respond.

Within 10 minutes, our Armed Offenders Squad was on scene.

Within 36 minutes, a mobile offender was in custody.

I am very proud of the Police response to this terrible attack.

... and how the identification of the dead is being handled

... Police and Coronial Services are very focused and working together closely to run the process in a way that is culturally appropriate, robust, and with speed. New Zealand’s Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marshall, two other coroners and four support staff are in Christchurch to provide additional capability and support to the locally-based coroners to help speed up the process.

“We, alongside Police and the forensic pathologists, are working as quickly as we can to establish the identity of those who lost their lives so tragically,” says Judge Marshall.

“Identification hearings will start this afternoon and we are anticipating that the process of returning the deceased will commence tonight. This is a complex task which must be completed according to New Zealand law. We are working closely with community representatives to explain the process.”

The nationalities of the victims cannot be confirmed at this stage. Information on this will be released as soon as possible as the coronial process continues.

“This is a long and complex process and all organisations involved are working as quickly as possible to return loved ones to their families but it’s vital we have certainty around cause of death for any future court proceedings,” Detective Superintendent Peter Read says.

The five stages are:

Postmortem phases: collecting detail from the victims

Phase 1: Scene
• The deceased are examined and documented in situ, then taken to the mortuary.

Phase 2: Mortuary
• The deceased is examined in detail by a pathologist, forensic dentist, fingerprint officer and Police DVI team
• Personal effects (such as jewelry, clothing) are photographed in situ, then collected, examined, cleaned, rephotographed and secured.

Antemortem phase: information about missing person is brought in from outside

Phase 3: Antemortem Information Retrieval
• Police gather information about possible victims, such as
o descriptions of appearance, clothing, jewelry, photos
o medical and dental records, x-rays
o fingerprints, from objects or official records (commonly collected by some overseas agencies)
o DNA samples, such as from a hairbrush, toothbrush or blood sample.

Phase 4: Reconcilliation
• Information from postmortem and antemortem phases are brought together to find a match
• At an identification hearing, the Coroner is presented evidence of the match by fingerprint, dentistry, DNA and Police DVI experts and decides if identification has been established
• Family and/or foreign authorities are advised, then media.

Phase 5: Debrief
• People involved in the DVI process keep each other updated throughout all stages
• Support and welfare is made available to staff including stress and grief counsellors, chaplains, Victim Support and police welfare officers.

ENDS

 

[mariomike]

The US is on it's way to have more Muslims than Malaysia.

For reference to the discussion,

Pew Research Center
Demographic Study
January 27, 2011

The Future of the Global Muslim Population
http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/#/Malaysia

 

[The Bread Guy]

... I think a big part of the problem is that when there's a mass shooting many people in society harbour thoughts that they hope it's white males or Muslims.  A sort of extreme right and left reaction ...

Definitely part of the equation - and you don't need many loud ones @ either end ...

 

[The Bread Guy]

From NZ's PM ...

An Australian man who has been charged with murder in the shooting rampage that killed at least 50 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday will be tried in the country, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Sunday.

The man, 28-year-old Brenton Harrison Tarrant, appeared in a Christchurch court Saturday and was charged with one count of murder. He was remanded in custody and was scheduled to appear in court again on April 5.

At a news conference Sunday, Ardern said the police will be filing additional charges against Tarrant, who is being held under high security in a special facility.

Asked whether Tarrant would be extradited to Australia, the prime minister said, “He will certainly face the justice system of New Zealand for the terror attack he has committed here.”

Ardern also said she intended to move quickly to toughen the nation’s gun laws. “We cannot be deterred from the work that we need to do on our gun laws in New Zealand,” she said. “They need to change.”

She added that her cabinet would begin discussions about gun legislation on Monday.

Arden said the bodies of the people killed in the attacks are beginning to be returned to the families of the victims. “It is the expectation that all bodies will be returned to families by Wednesday,” she said.

The families will be given $10,000 to help with funeral costs and other resources may be made available to them, Ardern said. Citizenship will have no bearing on the payments, she added ...

A bit more @ link

 

[dimsum]

Christchurch mosque shooting victims receive $2.1m donation from Chinese visitors

A pledge of $2.1 million has been made to survivors of the Christchurch terror attack by international associates of a Chinese businessman who found himself in the centre of the Jami Lee Ross political storm in 2018.

On Friday evening Auckland mayor Phil Goff was invited to attend a dinner for Teochew delegates who had arrived in Auckland for the 20th Convention of Teochew International Federation held this weekend.

Goff arrived late due to a meeting with the New Zealand Police and the Muslim community over the attacks in Christchurch which had happened just hours earlier.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111368797/christchurch-mosque-shooting-victims-receive-21m-donation-from-chinese-visitors

 

[The Bread Guy]

What Canada's party leaders had to say in the House of Commons yesterday, attached.

 

[The Bread Guy]

And now, this ...

ISIS Spokesman Ends Silence by Calling for Retaliation Over New Zealand Massacres
By Rukmini Callimachi (New York Times)
March 18, 2019

The spokesman of the Islamic State emerged from nearly six months of silence on Monday to mock America’s assertion of having defeated the group and to call for retaliation over last week’s mosque attacks in New Zealand.

“The scenes of the massacres in the two mosques should wake up those who were fooled, and should incite the supporters of the caliphate to avenge their religion,” the spokesman, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, said in a 44-minute audio recording.

Mr. al-Muhajir portrayed the shootings by a white extremist, which killed 50 Muslims as they prayed in the city of Christchurch, as an extension of the campaign against the Islamic State. He likened the mosque attacks to the weekslong battle raging in the last village under ISIS control in Syria.

“Here is Baghuz in Syria, where Muslims are burned to death and are bombed by all known and unknown weapons of mass destruction,” he said, painting the people in the town as regular Muslims when in fact coalition officials believe that the majority of them are either Islamic State fighters or their wives and children ...

More @ link

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Welcome to Globalization of events, nothing happens in isolation anymore.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Welcome to Globalization of events, nothing happens in isolation anymore.

'and now for a word from our sponsors...'  :Tin-Foil-Hat:

 

[Jarnhamar]

New Zealand has gone full panic.

Jordan Peterson's popular 12 Rules book banned by New Zealand booksellers because of Christchurch mosque massacre

A national chain of bookstores in New Zealand has pulled copies of Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life from sale, directly linking the decision to the massacre of 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch.

“Unfortunately, 12 Rules for Life is currently unavailable,” said a customer representative for Whitcoulls, the country’s largest bookseller with more than 50 stores in New Zealand and an online business.

“(It) is a decision that Whitcoulls has made in light of some extremely disturbing material being circulated prior, during and after the Christchurch attacks.

“As a business which takes our responsibilities to our communities very seriously, we believe it would be wrong to support the author at this time.”

The representative declined to provide her name as she was not authorized to comment to the media. Requests for comment and further explanation from company officials were not answered prior to deadline.

Don't worry, Whitcoulls is still selling Hitlers Mein kampf.
https://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/product/mein-kampf-978039592503437930

 

[The Bread Guy]

And Pravda's* joining the crowd promoting the false flag theory ...

By now most of you will have had some information about a tragedy in Christchurch New Zealand.  You will have been fed on a well oiled Main Stream Media [MSM] press service which swung into gear surprisingly quickly after the incident.  Of course, if this event actually happened as portrayed in the MSM then it is to be thoroughly condemned as a callous and brutal attack on the citizens of the country - supposedly by an Australian Import and his three identified accomplices.

However, all may not be as it seems for many inconsistencies exist in the official story and there are too many similarities to False Flag operations that have been conducted around the world which are designed to sway public option ...

More @ link

* - Not the old Soviet Pravda, which apparently still has a print edition put out by the Communist Party of Russia, but a newer pravda.ru is online (pravdareport.com is the English version) reportedly staffed by folks who broke away from the old Pravda when the USSR became past tense.  They've reported, with an apparently straight face, that Yemen was attacked by nukes, so caveat lector ...

 

[The Bread Guy]

This from a collaboration of USA's DHS, FBI and National Counterterrorism Centre (via the publicintelligence.net blog), dated 15 Mar 2019:

Attacks on Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, May Inspire Supporters of Violent Ideologies

This Joint Intelligence Bulletin (JIB) is intended to provide information on Australian national and violent extremist Brenton Tarrant’s 15 March 2019 attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. These attacks underscore the enduring nature of violent threats posed to faith-based communities. FBI, DHS, and NCTC advise federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government counterterrorism and law enforcement officials and private sector security partners responsible for securing faith-based communities in the Homeland to remain vigilant in light of the enduring threat to faith-based communities posed by domestic extremists (DEs), as well as by homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) who may seek retaliation. This JIB is provided to assist federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial counterterrorism and law enforcement officials and private sector security partners to effectively deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to incidents and terrorist attacks in the United States ...

More in attached 3-pager.