New police bodycam footage from the terrorist attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street captures the moments when officers encountered the suspect after he drove his truck into a crowd, killing 14 others.
The video shows the immediate aftermath of the ISIS-inspired attack, providing an up-close look at Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who plowed his truck into a crowd in the early hours of New Year’s Day, wounding dozens.
An officer yells, ‘Put your hands up,’ but Jabbar ignores the order and immediately fires at an officer. The muzzle from the gun can be seen flashing behind the truck’s airbag before three officers discharge their weapons, ultimately killing him.
The video shows officers then diving to the ground as gunfire is exchanged, two of them suffering injuries to their thighs and one fracturing his shoulder.
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said three officers who fired their weapons all acted within the law, calling them “national heroes.”
“These are split-second decisions, and so this portion that we’re releasing to you has to do with the policy issues, and it’s clear that these officers were well within policy,” Kirkpatrick said at a news conference. “We have zero concerns about that, but all officers are faced with ‘shoot, don’t shoot,’ and this was clearly within the law and clearly solidly within a policy.”