Discrepancies between the newspaper narrative and the video footage.
The Herald Sun, Rupert Murdoch’s trademark Melbourne rag, has published a graphic and heart-rendering account from a Jewish woman whose husband threw a brick at Bondi shooter Sajid Akram, allegedly an Indian National, after he was disarmed by bystander Ahmed Al Ahmed.
The wife of Reuven Morrison, Leah, said her husband died a hero when he was shot, presumably by Naveed Akram from a pedestrian bridge approximately 100 metres away.
“He died a hero, hit with 11 bullets as he screamed at his community to run and get on the ground,” the Herald Sun reported.
Cairns News: This is where the narrative becomes unstuck. He could not have been hit with 11 bullets.
The Herald Sun narrative continues: ‘He came face-to-face with the shooters, screaming the word “cowards” at them as they targeted the Jewish community.
The world watched Reuven’s bravery in several viral videos, he was the man seen trying to help Ahmed Al Ahmed in his attempt to stop the massacre, throwing bricks at one of the gunmen. The two of them had even discussed a game plan, his family says.
As Mrs Morrison lay on top of one of their terrified friends, shielding her from the hail of bullets, she watched her husband get up and fight, despite her screaming at him to “stop, stop”.
It was the last time she would see him alive.
“I lost my husband. The love of my life, how can I even express how I feel,” she said.
“He died being exactly who he was. He jumped up and saved many people. Those bullets (he took), they are lives that he saved.
“He was always thinking about and caring about everyone else.
“Proud is not enough of a word (for what I feel).”
While the family grieve and come to terms with their loss, they are angry and frustrated the Prime Minister has not contacted them, and that little support has been shown to them.
“If Albanese is still going to be in power, and he doesn’t even want to have a royal commission into what happened, things will never change,” she said.
“We know that there have been calls for intifada and ‘death for the Jews’, and this is what radical Islam stands for.
“It’s been preached in this country and it’s been preached in Sydney.
“So for us, this was an inevitable possibility unless the correct proactive actions were taken, and unfortunately, they were not.”’
Official narrative breaks down
This is the official narrative being promulgated and kept alive by the Herald Sun, but there is a major problem with Reuven Morrison being hit by 11 bullets.
In the video, Sydney fruiterer Ahmed Al Ahmed grapples the straight-pull, 12 gauge shotgun from Sajid Akram and leans it against a tree.
Then Mr Morrison throws a brick at an unarmed Sajid Akram reappearing in the video crouching behind a tree with hero Ahmed Al Ahmed.
Sajid returns to the bridge after being disarmed and starts indiscriminately firing a few shots over the parapet towards the duo hiding behind the tree, with a smaller calibre firearm which had been lying down on the bridge. It does not appear to be a shotgun.
Ahmed Al Ahmed staggers away to the left of the tree after appearing to be shot in the right arm then falls down. Mr Morrison is last seen crouching behind the tree in the video.
The only person who could have shot Mr Morrison is Naveed from the bridge, an estimated 80 to 100 metres away.
Here’s where it gets sticky. Naveed was firing presumably a .308 bolt action rifle with a magazine capacity of five rounds according to video analysis. (Naveed reloads magazine after five shots fired from the bridge in video. There was a photo published of a plastic bag containing a few fired rounds which showed a .308 (7.62mm) casing which we believe to be from the rifle used by Naveed).
Our ballistic expert assures us that just one hit with a typical 150 grain, .308 projectile at 100 metres delivers around 2100 – 2300 ft pounds of energy, more than enough to knock a human to the ground. Naveed fires only five shots towards Ahmed Al Ahmed and Mr Morrison sheltering behind a tree. It is not known if any of these shots hit Mr Morrison.
How then did Mr Morrison end up with 11 bullets in him when Naveed can be seen firing only five shots from the bridge after Sajid was disarmed and Mr Morrison threw a brick at him ?
They were not shotgun pellets because Ahmed Al Ahmed had already seized the shotgun from Sajid Akram and the range was too long from the bridge for a shotgun pellet to be effective.
During this entire shooting incident involving Ahmed Al Ahmed and Mr Morrison, a police officer can be seen in the foreground of the video crouching behind a car on the street. A .40 calibre, semi-auto, Glock police issue pistol is quite capable of killing or maiming at 100 metres if the shooter was good enough.
It is of note that the two shooters, Ahmed Al Ahmed and Mr Morrison were wearing shirts and trousers in differing combinations of black and white.
In some footage there seems to excessive gunpowder smoke from the modern nitro-celluose shotgun cartridges supposedly used by the shooters. Hollywood uses cartridges loaded with a mixture of nitro-celluose and black powder for a gunsmoke effect.
There were no more enemy shooters that we have heard of? What actually happened?
Cairns News offers condolences to the families of those affected at Bondi Beach.
