At least 1 person killed, several injured in Vienna attack
02 November 2020
At least one person was killed and more than a dozen were injured in a suspected terror attack that spanned six different shooting locations, Austrian authorities said Monday. A suspect was also reported killed.
The latest: Police say that the situation is "still active" and are urging people to avoid the area and not to use public transportation. The Austrian Armed Forces are being brought in to help police with the response to the attack, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, said in a tweet.
What we know: Several gunmen opened fire near a synagogue in Vienna on Monday night, killing at least one person and wounding others, including a police officer, officials said. 15 people are being treated in the hospital.
- Austria's Interior Minister Karl Nehammer described the incident as a "terror attack."
- Gunfire started hours before the start of a nationwide lockdown to combat a surge in coronavirus cases.
- The head of the Vienna’s Jewish community said in a tweet that it remains unknown whether Seitenstettengasse Temple, Vienna’s main synagogue, was a target, but that it was closed at the time of the shooting.
This story is developing. Please check back for updates.
Transcripts show George Floyd told police "I can't breathe" over 20 times
Section2Newly released transcripts of bodycam footage from the Minneapolis Police Department show that George Floyd told officers he could not breathe more than 20 times in the moments leading up to his death.
Why it matters: Floyd's killing sparked a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and an ongoing reckoning over systemic racism in the United States. The transcripts "offer one the most thorough and dramatic accounts" before Floyd's death, The New York Times writes.
The state of play: The transcripts were released as former officer Thomas Lane seeks to have the charges that he aided in Floyd's death thrown out in court, per the Times. He is one of four officers who have been charged.
- The filings also include a 60-page transcript of an interview with Lane. He said he "felt maybe that something was going on" when asked if he believed that Floyd was having a medical emergency at the time.
What the transcripts say:
- Floyd told the officers he was claustrophobic as they tried to get him into the squad car.
- The transcripts also show Floyd saying, "Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."
- Former officer Derek Chauvin, who had his knee on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes, told Floyd, "Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk."
Read the transcripts via DocumentCloud.