we may have more incidents take place like this. as i mentioned already. copenhagen. paris, now garland. there has to be a way of preventing the violence from escalating. and preventing groups like al qaeda and isis from trying to encourage the followers to carry out attacks. exactly. exactly do. you think that that this particular organization and their event that they, they maybe have drew out these shooters because of, of the keynote speaker and he is on the al qaeda hit list. well, he is again to use the word, controversial. he has attracted notoriety in europe. he is very much somebody who speaks his mind. he has supporters and detractors alike. his presence at the event will also have attracted the attention of the extremists as well. that is why i think security was
eyewitness news. the venue for this event was picked specifically by the organizers. they say that s because an event denouncing islamaphobia was held there back in january. the mayor of garland says he has no problems with how the venue is used. events are held there all the time. this group wanted to rent it. there was concern which is why we had heightened security in the area. but we all swear to uphold the constitution, free speech, free assembly, and this case perhaps, free religion. they were welcome to use it. use the building. the shooting reignited, free speech/provocation. many people in the community knew the event would be controversial. cnn political commentator, ben ferguson told john vause earlier that a lot didn t want this type of event in their backyard.
religion or motives, police say it appears they did act alone. i want to bring in now, a terrorism expert at in the national security director for the asia pacific foundation in london. hello there, thank you for joining me. i just first want to got your reaction to this event that was held outside dallas and at take. natalie, this is now the third incident this year in just the last five months, a venue targeted in connection to the prophet muhammad attacks, there was at take at charlie hebdo in paris, and then in copenhagen, denmark, now in garland, texas. so it is very interesting how the scope of terrorism has increased the intensity and that it is not being confined to one location. wherever there is an event. wherever it is being publicized.
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in. there were military or policemen everywhere running. and urging us quickly to get back inside as fast as we could. and so of course we, followed their instructions. for some body like this because there were additional officers that were hired for this event by the school district. we had talked with them in preparing for this event. in case something like happened. the keynote speaker at the event was right-wing dutch politician, seen here. he posted this photo to twitter writing picture taken just before garland shooting. thank god the heroes of swat team prevented the worst. fielders was placed on an al qaeda hit list over a film he made that was critical of islam. cnn s ed lavendara is in texas and has more for us. law enforcement officials in