Body-worn camera footage released by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) shows the moment officers first encountered Shamsud-Din Jabbar—the allegedly ISIS-inspired attacker who plowed his truck into a New Year’s Day crowd on Bourbon Street, killing 14 and injuring dozens.

A flurry of shots is heard on the clip after Jabbar opens fire from behind an airbag when officers surround the white Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck he had crashed around 3:15 a.m.
“After the officers surrounded the pickup truck, the driver fired at them,” an accompanying NOPD statement said. “Three officers—Sergeant Nigel Daggs and Officers Christian Beyer and Jacobie Jordan—returned fire. The driver was pronounced deceased on scene.”

The approximately 15-second video from Officer Luis Robles’s body-worn camera shows Beyer standing beside the truck’s open driver’s side door with his gun raised while Jordan also had his weapon drawn. Beyer can be heard identifying himself and ordering Jabbar to exit the vehicle.

Officers shouted, “Put your hands up,” before Robles turned and ran for cover as shooting erupted. The video shows the flash from what appears to be a gun muzzle emerging from the driver-side door, firing in the direction of officers.

NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, speaking at a Jan. 10 press conference, called the officers “national heroes” and said they “killed the terrorist.”

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