By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-05 20:34:00 | Updated at 2025-01-07 11:00:34
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New Orleans attacker filmed visits to city weeks earlier, wore Meta smart glasses during attack
NBC ^ | Jan. 5, 2025, 12:18 PM PST | Doha Madani
Posted on 01/05/2025 12:31:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, stayed at a rental home in New Orleans at the end of October and again in November, just weeks prior to his attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people. He wore the smart glasses to record video as he rode a bicycle through the French Quarter during that trip, FBI Special Agent in Charge Lyonel Myrthil said on Sunday.
“Meta glasses appear to look like regular glasses, but they allow a user to record videos and photos hand-free,” Myrthil said. “They also allow the user to potentially livestream through their video.”
Jabbar wore the glasses during his New Year’s Day attack, but they were not activated for a livestream, according to Myrthil. There was no indication he was recording the attack at all, though the glasses were found on Jabbar.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told NBC News that the company is “in touch with law enforcement on this matter.”
A compilation of the clips was posted online by the FBI, which includes Jabbar testing the glasses in a mirror and surveillance clips of him in the are prior to the truck attack. Images of bystanders were blurred by the FBI.
The 42-year-old was killed in a firefight with officers after he plowed through the busy strip with a rented truck in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: meta; metasmartglasses; smartglasses
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