Shots fired at JFK

[dennishoddy]

Reports just now coming in of shots fired at Terminal 8 and Terminal 1 at JFK airport in NYC.
Terminal 8 is for international flights with American Airlines.
Raw data, no confirmation of shots actually being fired, but the entire airport is shut down.

 

[OKNewshawk]

As of 11:03 PM, Fox News is reporting that the NYPD says no shots were fired at JFK.

 

[MrShooter]

When I first saw this, I thought... Ya... in 1963

Then I realized u meant the airport. I'm going to bed now...

Wtf..

 

[Decoligny]

Shots also fired a RFK.

 

[Dale00]

Bubblewrap being popped most likely

 

[Dale00]

And now LAX has been shut down by Zorro..... MY money is still on someone popping bubblewrap. Zorro was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

An actor returning from an audition dressed as masked hero Zorro, complete with plastic sword, shut down LAX airport and sparked fear of an active shooter situation on Sunday night.

The unidentified, middle-aged black man dressed in an all black satin costume with gloves, hat and large belt was apprehended on a bench as he waited 'for a ride home'.


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[RETOKSQUID]

Could be someone probing for response times and reactions by the general public.

 

[dennishoddy]

Could be someone probing for response times and reactions by the general public.

He got his reaction for sure. Face down on the concrete with a lot of guns pointed at his head.

 

[Dale00]

An opinion piece on these two incidents and what they mean:

Sunday night, in case you missed it, Los Angeles International Airport was closed because of a panic attack. The threat came not from terrorism or a crazed gunman, but rather from wild, incoherent passenger hysteria.

The incident may have been triggered by random loud noises or possibly a man in a Zorro costume with a plastic sword. But it quickly morphed into rumors of an active shooter as frightened passengers in three terminals raced out through TSA checkpoints and burst through restricted doors onto the tarmac.

Douglas Lee, a passenger from Albuquerque, New Mexico, told The Associated Press of his fear of being trampled. "You can imagine hundreds of adults trying to get through an exit door," he said. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti likened the uproar to "a game of telephone" in which each rumor became wilder than the last.
It might be tempting to dismiss the chaos at LAX as a minor summer squall brought on by the stress of air travel and memories of a 2013 shooting at the airport. But just two weeks ago, Kennedy International Airport in New York was the scene of an even more harrowing outbreak of irrational passenger panic with dangerous stampedes for the exits and security guards sobbing that they didn't want to die.

In a memorable account in New York magazine, David Wallace-Wells, who had been a passenger at JFK, wrote, "Panic turned us all into animals. And the airport, designed to contain and channel people, had never felt more like a slaughterhouse corral."

When the histories of this ugly campaign year are written, I hope that some attention is devoted to analyzing the Great Fear that was reflected in these August nervous breakdowns at two of the nation's busiest airport.

Yes, of course, there has been skittishness at airports since 9/11 and the terrorist tragedies in Orlando and San Bernardino have reminded us of the continuing danger from ISIS acolytes. Mass murder, unrelated to terrorism, has also brought with it a sad-eyed sequence of the funerals of the innocent.

But in his New York magazine piece, Wallace-Wells captured the weirdness of what went on at JFK airport. He shuddered "that an institution whose size and location and budget should make it a fortress, in a country that has spent 15 year focused compulsively on securing its airports … could be transformed into a scene of utter bedlam … by the whisper of a threat."

For reasons beyond politics, America seems more panicky than at any time since the frightened months after the twin towers were toppled....

But perhaps the simplest explanation is that we have all grown weary of appearing stoic. There was a sense of personal bravery that flowed through the culture in the weeks and months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

It was a time when Americans embraced the rituals of everyday life — going to the movies, shopping malls and football games. It was a time when, as the cliche went, we had to carry on as if everything were normal or "else the terrorists will win."

Maybe 15 years after 9/11, we have come to feel as depleted...

-See more at: http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/fear-stalks-airports-2016-campaign#sthash.6cRImhe2.dpuf