Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 29 July 2024

These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.

UK: Southport stabbings: eight people treated for stab injuries after incident – latest updates

Eight patients have been treated for “stab injuries” after the incident in a Southport nursery.

Related Articles

• Southport stabbing latest: At least eight stabbed – ‘mothers screaming’ as some victims taken to children’s hospital
• Police statement on major incident in Southport

Other International Attacks That Did Not Involve Firearms:

• Knife-wielding man shot dead by police in Sydney’s south-west (edged weapon)
• India: ‘We are enduring immense hatred’: Hindu extremists storm church, beat Christians at worship service (bamboo stick)
• Suspected suicide bombers kill at least 18 in Nigeria, authorities say (explosive0
• Several injured in German cafe acid attack (acid attack)
• Serbia: crossbow attacker shot dead after firing bolt at Israeli embassy guard (crossbow)
• Germany: Knife-wielding man shot dead by police (edged weapon)

Possible Overcrowding Incident:

• Nine die in DR Congo gospel concert chaos

Analyst Comments:

While all of the above attacks and a possible overcrowding incident did not occur in the United States, they can serve as an indicator that active shooters are not the only threat that can be considered.

The following FB-ISAO Daily Awareness Posts have provided resources to defend against and mitigate a variety of attacks.

• Variety of Threats: Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 26 October 2023 – FB-ISAO (faithbased-isao.org)
• Vehicle Attack and Edged Weapon: Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 15 April 2024 – FB-ISAO (faithbased-isao.org)
• Bomb Threats and Suspicious Packages: Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 13 May 2024 – FB-ISAO (faithbased-isao.org)
• Fire as a Weapon: Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 17 May 2024 – FB-ISAO (faithbased-isao.org)
• Complex Coordinated Attacks: Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 1 July 2024 – FB-ISAO (faithbased-isao.org)

Crowd Management Resource:

Gate 15 has a limited IAVM Podcast Series with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.

The Throwing down the gauntlet with Brendan Farley as we discuss the art and science of crowd management. podcast specifically deals with crowd management.

TikTok Collected U.S. Users’ Views on Gun Control, Abortion and Religion, U.S. Says

TikTok collected data about its users’ views on sensitive topics and censored content at the direction of its China-based parent company, the Justice Department said Friday, making its most forceful case to date that the video-sharing app poses a national-security threat. The sensitive topics TikTok tracked included the views of its U.S.-based users on gun control, abortion and religion, the Justice Department said. The Justice Department made the details public in court filings late Friday in response to a federal lawsuit TikTok filed in May arguing that a new law requiring a sale or ban of the popular social-media app violates the free-speech rights of millions of Americans under the banner of national security. The measure bans Chinese-backed TikTok in the U.S. unless its parent company, ByteDance, divests itself of the platform by mid-January.

Related Item

• TikTok Has a Nazi Problem
• TikTok Content Farms Use AI Voiceovers to Mass-Produce Political Misinformation
• Beyond Hitler and Mussolini: TikTok and the Adoration of Minor Fascist Ideologues

Analyst Comments:

Members of Faith-Based Organizations should consider using caution when utilizing video hosting services and social media platforms. All of these services collect a large amount of data on their users. They may also control what is emphasized and what is diminished. Additionally, misinformation may be posted.

Follow Up to Donald Trump Assassination Attempt

• Newly surfaced texts show Trump rally gunman was on authorities’ radar more than 90 minutes before shooting: report
• Texts Show How Officers Lost Track of Trump Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks
• Statement Regarding U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe’s July 25 Briefing to Senate Committee Members. On July 25, United States Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe provided a closed door briefing to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee regarding the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Trump. During the closed door briefing, Acting Director Rowe was committed to providing details and answering questions that could not be answered in Monday’s public Congressional hearing due to operational security and ongoing investigations. 
• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee to Convene Hearing Examining the Assassination Attempt on Former President Donald Trump. Hearing Will Include Testimony from FBI and USSS, Will Be Livestreamed Here and Here. Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM
• Is Google Blocking Donald Trump Assassination Attempt? What We Know. A spokesperson for Google denies that any “manual action” has taken been on the autocomplete predictions surrounding the assassination attempt of Trump. Instead, Google’s systems have protections against autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were “working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring” in Pennsylvania. “We’re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date,” the spokesperson told Newsweek.

Follow Up to French Railway Sabotage

• Man arrested over suspected French railway vandalism. An “ultra-left militant” was arrested in north-west France on Sunday after being found behaving suspiciously near a railway site, according to police sources quoted by French media. Officers who searched the man’s car found keys to technical premises, pliers, a set of universal keys and literature “linked to the ultra-left”. The 28-year-old suspect is currently being questioned by police in the city of Rouen, French media said. There is no indication that the man has links with the people responsible for Friday’s suspected co-ordinated arson attack on railway lines ahead of the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games.
• France suspects leftists in rail attacks as telecoms networks hit
• France trains remain affected by sabotage acts
• Who could have attacked France’s high-speed rail?
• Kremlin Dismisses Claims of Russian ‘Sabotage Campaign’ Against Olympics