On the long reddit thread it was said he stabbed someone (unrelated to the parade) and as he fled in the SUV he came to the parade. I guess his desire to flee meant he was going through that road no matter what, so he piled through all those people :/
The videos posted you can see various angles and the SUV literally makes a run for it from the left speeding all the way through at one point bouncing up in the air as he runs people under the wheels before it's gone out of sight in the far right of the frame.
Ah ok, thanks for the additional info. I don't fancy watching too many of the videos of this but that makes sense.
If as the story is saying that he ran those people over fleeing from the police, then i'm not sure that would be construed as terrorism.
If he turned up at the parade with the sole intention of running over as many people as possible, then i'm sure that would be classed as a terrorist act.
Yeah, calls into question the police response too - in the UK (AFAIK) they often need approval to carry on with high-speed pursuits (at least if some of the fly on the wall cop programs are reflective of general UK policing standard operating procedures).
If there is a known large event nearby then chasing a suspect that is driving erratically obvs provides a greater risk to the public - something you'd hope that people in the control room would have awareness of in the UK and be a factor when considering whether to approve the continued pursuit perhaps? US police on the other hand are rather fragmented with multiple state, county and city/town police orgs (some of which can be tiny) and rules/standards etc.. no doubt vary greatly.
It will be interesting I guess to find out how long the pursuit had been going for (if that is indeed the case) and whether or not they stopped the pursuit when it neared the parade.
