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NYC biker shooting on Oct. 31 killed eight, injured many more MNSU government professor sheds some light on events and reaction
COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer On Oct. 31, the driver of a delivery truck careened down a sidewalk killing eight pedestrians on the path near ground zero of the 9/11 attacks in the lower Manhattan area. “It is an iconic place and one of the cities that the world thinks of when talking about landmarks in the U.S.,” said Pat Nelson, associate professor in the Department of Government at Minnesota State University, Mankato. “And while the travel and amount of people offers convenience there an aspect of going after the symbol.” The attacker, Sayfullo Saipov, was shot by police after hitting a bus, bringing
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the delivery truck to a halt. He exited the vehicle with two realistic looking pellet guns and yelling “Allahu Akbar,” causing a panic on the streets. In the 29-year-old Uzbekistan’s rampage, nearly two dozen pedestrians were injured along with two adults
and children on the bus that was hit. The authorities are listing this as a lone wolf terrorist attack and have no evidence that there is anyone else involved. Saipov was in possession of a Florida ID while driving a Home Depot truck through the pedestrians.
“Lone wolf attackers are cut off from their support, despite who claims credit for the attack after,” said Nelson. “The attacks are really impossible to plan for and despite the reaction people have to an attack, the security versus privacy that must be sacrificed if
authorities were to ever try and primitively stop a lone wolf would be illegal because of how random a lone wolf attacker usually is.” Of the victims, six died at the scene and two more passed away at the hospital, while 11 others were brought to the hospital, three of which were children. While the vehicular attack five months ago in Times Square brought back the renewed danger of attacks with motor vehicles in busy city streets, the solitary nature of the attack makes it impossible to anticipate. With authorities diving immediately into the background of Saipov, very few ties between him and organizations have yet to be made. The F.B.I. was able to make arrests over the last two years of Uzbekistan nationals with ties to the ISIS organization in Brooklyn, but
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What No-Shave November really means and how it came to be
DANIEL DICKERSON Staff Writer For some around the world, No-Shave November really will be in accordance with what the members of the Chicagoland Hill family, the starters of the official charity organization, hope for, which is “a unique way to grow cancer awareness.” No-Shave November has been a tradition for the eleventh month of the year for many years, but until the fall of 2009 it was only an activity of contest amongst men to determine who could grow out their facial hair
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throughout the month. In 2009, members of the Chicagoland Hill family, Thomas, Abbey, Andrew, Christine, Theresa, Caitlin, Aaron, Monica, Nicholas, and Rebecca Hill, banded together after their father, Matthew Hill, passed away due to colon cancer
The Hill family created No-Shave November as a way to spread more awareness about cancer. in November 2007. They created the web-based, non-profit organization, No-Shave November, to raise
awareness of cancer as well as raise funds to support cancer prevention. The funds go towards incredible research and providing free information and services to cancer patients and their caregivers. The Hill family created No-Shave November as a way for those involved to give up shaving and grooming in order to strike up conversations about why they have decided to participate and educate the general public on their month-long endeavor. Participants donate all money usually spent on shaving and grooming hair—for example, razors, shaving cream and waxing materials—to the
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