Two recent New Year's incidents, a deadly truck ramming in New Orleans and an explosion involving a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, both involved individuals with military backgrounds, raising concerns about a disturbing trend of extremism among service members and veterans. While the motives differ, both Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger, who died in the Las Vegas incident, served in the U.S. Army, prompting questions about the potential role military service may have played in these acts.
Two high-profile New Year’s incidents — the deadly truck ramming in New Orleans and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas — underscore the disturbing trend of public violence committed by U.S. military service members and veterans. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver in the New Orleans attack, and Matthew Livelsberger, who authorities say died by suicide before the explosives-loaded Cybertruck he was sitting in blew up, both served in the U.S. Army.
Mark Takano of California, sought to answer during a 2022 hearing on the raft of extremist violence carried out domestically by veterans, which I covered at the time. In his opening statement, Takano said: The Intercept’s Nick Turse essentially just addressed the same concerns in a piece headlined “U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence.
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