"We know that the offender in the matter suffers from mental [ill] health."
News of the horror stabbing spree trickling out of Bondi this morning left an already on edge world further rattled. Six dead, including a young mother. Many more in the hospital. Numbers, unfortunately, familiar to the United States but almost entirely foreign to Australia.
This the largest mass killing in over a decade in a country where gun ownership is extremely restricted.
According to reports, a man wielding a knife entered the Bondi Junction Westfield mall Saturday afternoon and began attacking people seemingly casually and at random. Four women and one man died at the scene. Another woman died at the hospital.
The lone perp, later identified as a 40-year-old itinerant surfer from Queensland named Joel Cauchi, entered the mall around 3:00 PM on Saturday, left, then returned ten minutes to commit his atrocity, moving slowly, riding the escalator.
“We know that shortly after coming to Sydney, he took possession of a storage facility that has been identified and we have worked through that very small storage facility,” Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke told The Daily Mail.
“We know that the offender in the matter suffers from mental [ill] health,” Mr Cooke added. “We are continuing to work through the profiling of the offender but very clearly to us at this stage it would appear that this is related to the mental health of the individual involved.”
Cauchi had asked, earlier, on Facebook if anyone would like to join him for a Bondi surf.
A heroic Australian police officer tracked Cauchi upstairs, he turned and threatened her with his knife, she shot him dead.
The New South Wales police commissioner shared, “She showed enormous courage and bravery … we just talked [and] she’s OK, her family is OK. She’s got everything she needs for the time being.”
Tragic, all of it.
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But at least she’d be FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know what the mental health care system is like in Australia. In the US anybody who complains about being sad gets put on profitable psycho active drugs that make them worse at least some of the time. Regan shut down the mental health facilities, open them back up. Never gonna happen though, no $$ in it. California government stole billions and the cities are open air asylums.
It’s an abomination. Along with the treatment of our veterans. The citizens of this country have lost the ability to think critically, which is why we keep going forward with this madness and keep electing these scumbags. Politicians holding office for 30 years lol. Our government has not
Given one single fuck about its population in 75 years, and it is for that reason I thank god we do have our guns. Ask yourself and answer honestly-would Melbourne have been locked down for a fucking year if its citizens were armed?
Think critically is a very abused phrase in the u tube comments section.
I live 2 hours from Melbourne.
More guns during covid would jhave ust seen more suicides.
We don’t worry about fairytales of tyrannical governments and Rambo movies where you can take on the armed forces and win.
Only the cookers were upset. But they have shit for brains.
You can’t shoot the coronavirus though
STAB shoulda been all over this one but BG as well because of his VAL status…Soo fucked.
Unfortunately the thought is we going to see more of this repeated. The fasting growing career sector seems to be councillors.
This is so fucked,
How do you yanks deal with mass murder in ya schools every other week?
Thoughts and prayers; more Republicans bought out by the NRA; more Fox scare tactics; the holy sanctity of the 2nd Amendment; whataboutism that blacks in Chicago are more dangerous…wash and repeat. It sucks. All of it. Including the fact that it seems one party at least is more scared of some books in schools, but not AK 47s. Hope this is a one off for you all, and not like you say, every other week. It sucks.
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Reading a book about fascists would be a good start
Really thought the students from South Florida had traction to really make a difference. Finally muted or gagged to silence by adults. Think the communities have to move forward to solve these social issues can’t wait for big bird at the White House to implement trickle down.
That’s where you got to realize it is unsolvable.
Please look at history etc.
The system develops antibodies quickly.
You either have freedom with some violence or you don’t have freedom but you still have violence.
Which one do you want?
So the rest of the world where kids aren’t slaughtered by fucks with guns isn’t free? Nice made up dichotomy and fucked def of freedom. That your morals are so compromised by the NRA shows you’re definitely not free. But to your Q, yeah, I’ll go with the rest of the civilized world.
I don’t own any guns or belong to the NRA. If and when I do want some, I don’t want you kooks making it so I can’t.
Could care fuck all, mate, as you’re still on the side that says guns are worth more than a kid sitting at a school desk. Fuck off.
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Humans suck. Some of them apparently comment on BG, too.
Go on continuing with your utopian mindset. Someday you’ll learn the way😎
Guaranteed those upvotes are strictly from Americans, and maybe Bex.
you truly can’t imagine seppo-land right now unless you’re a seppo too… we’re a different strand of human…
It is without question that the only thing protecting my favorite Country. ( the one with guns) from the dangerous uniparty tyrannical government is of course the gun owner who is safe inside their home with their guns. Criminal’s gonna Criminal’ this guy would have used rocks and sticks if that was all that was available. Glad he didn’t have a gun but if those defenseless women would have been packing there woulda been no need for police intervention.
Can you give us an example of a mass shooting in America that was stopped by a citizen with a gun?
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Depends on criteria,mall and schools it’s rare because those are typically no gun zones which make them soft targets for the insane. In business, home, and personal defense outside of those places where law abiding citizens have their guns, they use them more often.
Greenwood Park Mall shooting
Fuck I hate this type of USA logic.
If he had a gun there would have been 30 people dead instead.
Brain dead logic some of you cunts have got.
First of all, I’m embarrassed you’re a goofy. Second of all, gun rights are womens rights ya damn Saudi Arabian screw foot
Airport style X-ray machines coming to a shopping centre near you very soon..
Really…stabbing women and babies…you big footy fakey coward.
“A heroic Australian police officer tracked Cauchi upstairs, he turned and threatened her with his knife, she shot him dead.”
Very Heroic and Courageous. He had a knife, her a gun.
Very brave of her to confront him with her gun.
She done what’s she’s been trained to do. No doubt would have told him to drop the knife & adhered to protocol. Reports say she was calm & was on her own, as the 1st responder.
What would you have done?
I would have done exactly what she did.
except I wouldn’t have told him to drop the knife. he just stabbed six people. he deserved to die.
point is, she’s not a hero. she did her job and shot the psycho surfer cunt.
It’s a stupid fucking point. You seem to have changed your tune in the hour since you sarcastically suggested she’s not a hero.
She done her job perfectly & potentially saved lives. Lives of innocent women & children. She is indeed a fucking hero!
I don’t like cops bashing blokes in pubs & shit but under any circumstance like this they can bring in the AKs any day of the week.
What do heroes do differently?
You’d be great in the military. No need to hand out medal of honour or VC awards because you’re just doing your job eh?
Would you have preferred she threw down the gun, put a knife between her teeth, and mumbled “it’s a fair fight now, so let’s rumble”? Would that be sufficiently courageous?
The ironing of him being put down by a woman, after his rampage targeting women and babies on their afternoon outings at the shops, is delicious
The only good thing about this story.
As a policy – any cunt that stabs a baby and kills the mother should be shot dead without consideration if it’s a fair fight.
Absolutely agree. Whether a police officer or a lawful gun owner, shooting a murderer is always the right thing.
Lucky she was armed with a gun instead of a baton.
Ok I’ll bite. Im not gonna go into a full on discussion about what a ‘lawful gun owner’ is, but if guns were openly owned and distributed, chances are instead of a knife that piece of shit would have definitely used a gun and certainly killed many more, before he was shot dead by a lawful gun user – a police officer.
He raises a fair point. If the cop had been a male would he have been declared a hero by the prime minister? Or would he have had his weapon taken off him and suspended pending an investigation into the shooting? I’m not sure how it works in Australia, but that is how it would work here!
Nah mate he doesn’t raise a fair point. He’s hit the the reef on THE ROCK too many times.
wow, someone on here that actually has comprehension skills.
Personally I think almost all cops are heroes every day, just for showing up and having to deal with all the shit they have to on a daily basis.
my uncle was a cop in the LAPD for 30 years. guy had some stories for sure.
Aussie cop did a good job blowing the asshole away, exactly what she should have done…..without hesitation.
I hope she said to the guy: “you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, kook” before she turned him into Swiss cheese.
You stupid cunt. Would you have preferred she waited for backup like the Texas cops did whilst he murdered multiple kids inside? Or perhaps grabbed a knife from the nearby butcher and challenged him to a dual?
you missed the point, but what’s new?
Shit perspective. Of course it’s fucking brave you internet hero.
Dude, you are a fucking idiot.
thank you
Fucking scum
Only issue with shooting this vermin is that he didn’t get what he deserved in jail.
Having a photo taken in whats obviously a surf school doesn’t make him a surfer. So let’s shut that shit down straight up
looks like he was diagnosed 23 years ago with serious mental condition and has been deteriorating the last few years…….
What would you suggest society does with him given what he’s done, had he lived?
Or more importantly what should it be working towards to minimise people with serious MH conditions randomly stabing people (babies) in public??
He would have gotten life in jail.
Mental health problems mixed with drug taking are a terrible combo.
You either go full Nazi party and permanently remove all the deroes and drug addicts or you have to find the $$ (and heaps of it) to institutionalize and rehabilitate them. The first option will never happen, which leaves the second option as the only way forward. Or just business as usual and as a society we accept that these things will happen from time to time.
so true, trumps got a full hand of legal cases against him and caused a riot that people tried killing for, and they are about to vote him in, how are we supposed to look after all the people that need help to avoid these catastrophes when no one understands that prevention can be the best medicine for society, rant , sorry
Mate, everyone is a surfer.
It’s the most mainstream pastime in the western world.
This is horrible. Guns are illegal. Why would they shoot him, had they tried talking to him. Maybe defunded police budgets would have done better here? Community based volunteering would have stopped this. It’s what they do in America now. We should do better.
Seeing he already stabbed a bunch of people I’m pretty sure they were past the point of taking about it.
Exactly what form of ‘Community based volunteering’ would, or could, have stopped this?
Surely you’re rippin the piss cunt…
The mass murderer before this one, Martian Bryant ( ?) was a surfer as
well!
No. He didn’t surf. Bryant posed as a surfer. From reports his board never left the roof racks.
Bolted on by all reports.
I had a girlfriend like that once.
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Sounds like 80% of “ surfers “.
So your point is?
Sounds like you’re part of your 80%
Surfing requires you to enter the water & ride waves, that’s my point.
You’re right!
Let’s see: Australian and a surfer, both mass murderers. The solution is obvious. Australia needs to outlaw surfing. For the safety of its non-surfing population.
yeas outlaw surfing and let the GWS’s in peace?
I always assumed that a knifed society was a polite society
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Fucken yikes! Good on the cop .