CROWN HEIGHTS - CITY OFFICIALS were warned weeks before a car-ramming attack at a Crown Heights synagogue that security bollards and other hardening measures were needed - infrastructure New York City had already begun installing years earlier under former Mayor Bill de Blasio. A Dec. 30, 2025, report from the Mayor's Office for Combating Antisemitism, issued just before Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office, flagged the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters as a high-risk site and recommended bollards and related protections.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that while it was too early in the investigation to speculate on the driver's motives, the incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime. "This is deeply alarming, especially given the deep meaning and the history of the institution to so many in New York and around the world," said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who called the crash "intentional."
Police are investigating an incident in which the driver of a U-Haul truck drove into several people during a protest in Westwood against the Iranian regime. Few details were immediately available. But video of the incident Sunday afternoon showed protesters pulling the driver out of the vehicle. Police appeared to have taken him into custody. The Los Angeles Fire Department evaluated two people at the scene, and they declined treatment.
and then lied to police he had acted in fear of his own life. Horrific dashcam footage from Paul Doyle's Ford Galaxy showed the 54-year-old use the 1.9-tonne vehicle as a weapon, knocking down more than 100 people at last May's event. Accelerating into a crowd, victims became trapped under the car, while others were thrown into the air or propelled across the ground, including a six-month-old baby.
Doyle used a car as a "weapon" to plough through more than 100 people at Liverpool's Premier League title celebrations. Prosecutors said he flew into a "rage" on May 26 - with horrific dashcam footage showing him shout "move", "f****** pricks" and "get out the f****** way" as he drove through the crowds. On Tuesday, some of his victims spoke of their suffering following his "spine-chilling" rampage, with one telling him: "Don't sit in the dock and cry for yourself."
Paul Doyle, 54, of West Derby in Liverpool, drove the 1.9-tonne Ford Galaxy vehicle into the crowds of people in an act of calculated violence, injuring 134 people, said Sarah Hammand, chief crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in Merseyside. His victims ranged from a 77-year-old to a six-month-old baby. Having initially denied 31 charges relating to the incident on 26 May, last month, on the second day of his trial, Doyle admitted all the charges,
Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed.
A man has been arrested after a police officer was injured when a car ploughed through the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney. Officers had tried to speak to the driver of the white SUV when it was parked in the driveway of the consulate in the city's eastern suburbs on Monday morning. But the 39-year-old man behind the wheel allegedly drove his vehicle into the gates of the property and on to its lawn, police said in a statement.
