Shane Tamura, 27-year-old Las Vegas man with a documented mental health history, was identified as a gunman who stormed 345 Park Avenue on Monday evening, killing 4 people including NYPD Officer Daral Islam and wounding one before killing himself.
00:01:26.040They do not know who he is. They know he is a male, possibly white. He's wearing sunglasses. He appears to have a mustache. And that picture has been distributed to every police officer in New York City.
00:01:43.980Nobody particularly has been sent to the phones of the search teams inside that building, because whenever they encounter a group of people, the first thing they have to figure out is, is that individual among these people hiding among victims or pretending to be an office worker?
00:02:01.100Because one thing you don't want to have happen is to have this kind of cordon where you're trying to evacuate people in groups as you can get them...
00:02:07.980Rob, you can pause it. Do you have the clip of him walking with the AR-15? Do you know which one I'm talking about? There's a clip right there. If you can go to that one. No, one more. So that's him. He just walks up.
00:02:18.700You mean the camera doesn't pick that up? He just walks up. So, Scott, what happened here? What happened with the shooting?
00:02:25.900Well, it sounds like from what I've read this morning, this guy drove all the way across the country, has some kind of mental illness, and decided to walk in there. I think the NFL is in there. He used to be a football player.
00:02:37.980And so, and I read maybe there's a suicide note that he left as well. So it's obviously a tragic situation.
00:02:46.320And to me, for New York, I spend a lot of time, I don't live there. I live in Kentucky, but I spend a lot of time there.
00:02:52.240And to me, it's a story about the NYPD. And obviously, we had an officer here, and they're about to have a mayor's race.
00:03:02.440They're about to elect somebody in New York City who has said, we don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer, and a major threat to public safety.
00:03:16.460What we need to do is defund the NYPD.
00:03:26.380The police show up and put themselves in harm's way.
00:03:30.260And there is the leading candidate for mayor.
00:03:32.960That's what they think about the NYPD.
00:03:34.640So I think it's a day to mourn the victims, and it's a day for New York to think about its future.
00:03:39.840Because in Momdani's worldview, the police are the problem, not the shooter, not the people who are walking in and committing the violence.
00:03:48.140He says violence is just sort of a made-up construct anyway.
00:03:51.480And so my view is, for New Yorkers, I would think long and hard about what kind of mayor you want.
00:03:57.460When these kinds of people exist and these kinds of things happen, do you want somebody who hates the police this much?
00:04:02.060The question is, how could this have been prevented, right?
00:07:32.600And the reason I'm bringing that up is do you remember what the left did to basically celebrate and honor Luigi Mangione after he killed the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson?
00:07:42.300They basically gave him a shout-out and they did a look-alike contest to basically adorn this person as if he's a hero of the far left.
00:07:53.060So, just keep that in mind when we're talking about the New York mayoral race, Eric Adams potentially, obviously, versus Mamdani.
00:08:02.640I'm wondering the far left in New York who basically brought Mamdani to the forefront of the mayoral election, how they feel about something like this.
00:08:12.400Because when you have a mayor who's a proud communist, socialist, what's the difference, and alleged Islamist, and he's saying defund the police, he's basically saying free everything.
00:08:23.640How is this going to change the race in New York?
00:11:02.880And he said, Officer Islam was one of the four people killed in yesterday's horrific shooting, a Bangladeshi immigrant who joined NYPD four years ago.
00:11:11.100He lived in Parkist with his pregnant wife, their two young children, and his elderly parents.
00:11:16.100When he joined the police department, his mother asked him, why would he do this dangerous job?
00:11:19.760He told her it was to leave behind a legacy with his family.
00:13:05.200I don't know if New Yorkers are going to sit there because in order for this to happen, Scott, my opinion, someone's got to capitalize and tell the story the right way.
00:16:45.620And right now, the question is, Tom, there's so many different stories of socialism, of not working, and it keeps reappearing itself by young 25, 30, 33-year-olds who are selling this romanticizing socialism, how amazing it could be, how terrible cops are, you know, all these other things.
00:17:04.120Well, first of all, if Mamdani was in charge, no cops would have showed up.
00:17:08.620The response for the NYPD was amazing.
00:17:10.820They were jumping over cars and bushes to try to get to this guy, and he took his own life.
00:17:14.540And allegedly, he shot himself in the chest so his brain could be saved for studying because he says he had CTE, but he was in high school football.
00:17:22.960That being said, but if Mamdani was the mayor, there'd be less cops because he wants to hire social workers.
00:17:29.940Like, people would have been there like, hey, think about your feelings.
00:17:32.860As you're shooting six, seven people, think about it.
00:17:35.560But I think one thing that we kind of just brushed over, and maybe, Scott, you could kind of help us because you're there.
00:17:41.100Like, CNN made sure that they said the shooter was possibly white before any facts were confirmed.
00:17:55.680Because it primes the audience, like, the view of the story through a specific racial lens that aligns with their narrative, pushing America.
00:18:03.180Like, this is the violence of America.
00:18:18.000Yeah, and if it's not, sorry, Pat, and if it's not, and they know that he's definitely not, like, if it's, like, a Muslim guy or if it's a black guy, and they just don't want to say it, they always go to the white narrative.
00:18:41.160And so, there is a danger in reporting even possible details before you really have a handle on it, and, obviously, in a chaotic situation like this.
00:18:53.220Once a year, we host a conference called the Vol Conference.
00:18:57.120We're expecting nearly 12,000 people here at the event.
00:19:01.660Rob, you can play the clip and just turn off the audio while I'm going through it.
00:19:04.920And we have special guest speakers that will be there this year.