Details: Active Shooter in Manhattan [Blackstone]

Another devastating day in America as uh

what is being described as potentially a

Middle Eastern man walking into the

Blackstone building abandoning his

vehicle outside which has been taken

apart by the bomb squad and is now being

piece by piece searched by NYPD.

apparently abandoned his vehicle on the

street, walked in uh to the lobby of 345

Park Place. That is between Lexington

and Park uh and between 51st and 52nd.

This is the building. It is a 44story

building. Apparently, the camera shot

shows him casually walking in to the

lobby here, uh, where allegedly he shot

an officer in the lobby as he walked in

who was posted on a detail. Remember, a

detail is is a paid position that an

officer could take, usually when they're

done with their regular hours to pick up

basically an extra shift doing security

or at least having a presence at another

facility. not necessarily doing

security, but having a presence in the

event something happens. Uh there is

talk that one of the officers that was

shot has died. One other officer has

been shot as well as potentially as many

as four more people. It's unclear how

many more people have been shot as the

building is just getting cleared by

NYPD. We've been listening to the radio

comms uh and listening to the special

response teams clear not only the lobby

and secure the lobby to remove civilians

out of the building after of course

identifying them and interviewing them

to make sure they're not letting like

second shooters out, right? Very common.

You don't want a second shooter escaping

uh potentially. So usually they

document, you know, who's leaving. Uh

but then they're also they're not just

clearing from the bottom, they're also

clearing from the rooftop. Uh so they

are coming down clearing the building

floor by floor. It is believed that the

individual is dead that he may have shot

himself once he arrived to either the

25th or 20 or 33rd floor. So 25th or

33rd floor. Again this is a building

that is uh a headquarters for Blackstone

private equity firm uh in uh the United

States. This is obviously a massive

massive company investment company. I

mean, we're talking trillions of

dollars. Uh well, yeah, here $1.2

trillion dollars under management. Uh

and this is their building here. Uh you

do also have other uh offices here

potentially. Uh this Ruden Property

Management, you potenti they have their

address listed at at 345 Park. Their

website is loading very very slowly.

You've got Deutsche Bank. You've got uh

NFL offices in this building, accounting

firms inside of this building. It's

unclear what the motive uh for this uh

situation is, but what we do know is

that uh chaos has essentially struck uh

Manhattan. And it's and it's disgusting

to think that, you know, as Americans,

again, we have to live in fear for this

kind of stuff. in especially in a place

that is so secure like New York. This

occurred relatively close to the

uh 7:00 hour and uh you could see here

special response teams once this

actually loads. There we go. Special

response teams on the right moving in.

It's unclear if these are just uniformed

officers who grabbed their rifle and a

helmet and ran in. Usually in an active

shooter scenario, you want to as quickly

as possible have officers respond even

before getting a full SWAT team in place

just for the sake of time. You don't

want to repeat what we've seen in places

like Texas where unfortunately you have

seen time end up leading to more deaths

at school shootings. That's not what you

want to see. So, generally an active

response for an active shooter is

responding as soon as possible and

getting shots on a gunman. Uh, the New

York Post is reporting potentially that

three have been critically injured,

though the latest reports seem to be

that six were injured and that one has

died. And again, the individual has

potentially taken their own life. Now,

there are questions around why were

other people outside of the building

arrested? Like here's a Free Palestine

guy who was arrested outside of the

building around the same time. Here's

potentially another activist or somebody

else shouting free Palestine who

apparently had a cut on her head who was

also arrested. Usually at a time like

this, officers are not entirely clear of

exactly what's going on. Radio

communications can be very overwhelmed.

Uh, and it's not uncommon for one person

shouting and protesting, especially with

blood on their forehead, to turn into

uh, you know, like here's a v, you know,

video of the lady getting rushed out of

that active shooter scene. Not uncommon

to get people out like just arrest

people, get people out of there and and,

you know, figure out what's going on

after the fact. That is not uncommon at

all. Uh now uh some people starting to

speculate like what could the motivation

be here? Was this a slam on private

equity? Is this a slam on capitalism? Is

this uh you know some kind of setup to

make uh New Yorkers fearful that they

need to make sure that they don't elect

a defund the police style mayor like a

mom Dani. Now, that would be obviously a

little bit more extreme, implying that

potentially this was politically

motivated to prop up the opposition to

Monty. Who knows? Uh, you know, if

they're anti- capitalistic, it would

almost seem like it would be a prom

style thing who basically he is a

self-professed what he calls democratic

socialist and he says that capitalism is

actually evil. Uh, so it's unknown. We

don't seem to have any kind of manifesto

or any kind of uh motive at this point,

although I'm sure more data will come

out in time. But this is a you know

quite a nerve-wracking situation for uh

Manhattan. Again, that's 345

uh Park A. And we can see here on the

live blog from uh the Wall Street

Journal that um uh the shooter

reportedly the New York Police

Commissioner says that after 90 So we're

we're just now at the end of this uh

that the shooter we're just now getting

confirmation within the last 10 minutes

here that the shooter has been

neutralized after about 90 minutes. It

looks like the first shots took place at

about 6:30 p.m. And the shooter, the

police can confirm now, has been

neutralized. Uh this is um uh look at

this. Blackstone employees shared

messages over email and Microsoft Teams

that there was a shooter in the lobby

and warned each other not to go

downstairs. Employees shared that they

were hiding and locking themselves in

offices. Good lord. Uh I mean this is

this is just a you know sort of

unfortunately another terrible situation

uh in America and uh this gives us a

breakdown of what just happened. Uh it's

scary. I hope everybody stays safe out

there. And if if you're ever nervous

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a paid partner of the channel. That

said, let's hope we get answers as to

what just occurred. And let's also pray

that there are no other shooters because

that's the last thing we want. We don't

need terrorism

anywhere in the world. Uh but no

terrorism is acceptable. Thanks for

watching this breakdown. Stay safe out

there.

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