Bodycam Footage Shows NOLA Terrorist Firing On Police After Driving Through Crowd

The New Orleans Police Department released bodycam footage on Friday that showed Islamic terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar firing upon responding police officers after he mowed down people with his truck on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day.

Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Texas, was shot and killed when officers returned fire. The terrorist killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more when he sped down Bourbon Street in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Footage taken from the bodycam worn by officer Luis Robles shows him and at least two other officers approaching Jabbar’s rented truck. Robles and officer Christian Beyer stood by the truck with their guns drawn after Jabbar crashed, the Associated Press reported.

One officer yelled, “Put your hands up” before gunfire erupted. The bodycam footage showed a flash come from Jabbar’s gun before the officers ran for cover. Beyer, officer Jacobie Jordan, and Sgt. Nigel Daggs returned fire and killed the terrorist.

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick called the officers “national heroes” and said they responded to the threat according to procedures.

“Officers are trained for shoot scenarios like that — they’re highly trained, and that’s what you saw. These are split-second decisions,” Kirkpatrick said.

“All officers are faced with ‘shoot, don’t shoot.’ And this was clearly within the law and clearly, solidly within policy,” she added.

Daggs is a 21-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department while Beyer and Jordan have been with the department for nearly two years. Jordan and officer Joseph Rodrigue were wounded in the shootout and have since been released from the hospital, NBC News reported.

WARNING: The following footage could be disturbing to some viewers.

Authorities are still investigating the attack, and Kilpatrick said more bodycam footage will be released in the future. Officials are also looking into the security measures that were in place to protect people who were ringing in the New Year. Despite owning portable steel barriers that are often used to block off streets during large events, the city did not use any of the steel barriers to block off Bourbon Street during the New Year’s Day celebration. Jabbar accessed the bustling street by driving past a police car that was parked to block it off.

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Kilpatrick said last week that she didn’t know about the steel barriers in the city’s possession.

“I didn’t know about them, but we have them,” Kirkpatrick told reporters, according to CNN. “And so we have been able now to put them out.”

Last week, the FBI revealed footage of the terrorist placing two IEDs on Bourbon Steet just over an hour before his attack. Jabbar hid the IEDs in coolers, but they weren’t detonated during the attack. Authorities found a transmitter to detonate the IEDs in the terrorist’s truck along with an ISIS flag.

Jabbar recently became radicalized. In a video he recorded in the rented pickup truck on his way to carry out the attack, Jabbar said, “I wanted to record this message for my family. I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year,” according to The New York Times. In the video, Jabbar added that he considered killing his family members so they could “witness the killing of the apostates.”

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