Garcia said she fired multiple rounds.Ĭronin can be seen reacting to Odufuwa’s actions and trying to engage with the suspect as people in the airport tried to take cover.Ĭronin commanded the suspect to drop the weapon, according to Garcia. The surveillance video shows Odufuwa pointing the gun toward the ceiling. “Witnesses say Odufuwa started to ramble, talking about a marriage, incarceration and that she was going to blow up the airport, and then pulls a handgun from her sweatshirt,” Garcia said. All rights reserved.According to Garcia, Odufuwa walked to the Southwest Airlines ticketing area, stating she had an announcement to make.Īt one point, surveillance video shows Officer Ronald Cronin, a 15-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, begin to walk toward Odufuwa. ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. The huge sums of money up for grabs, and less demanding requirements, spurred a number of golfers - many in the twilight of their careers - to break away from the PGA Tour and join LIV, including six-time major winner Phil Mickelson, four-time major champion Brooks Koepka and former world No. Tournaments are held over 54 holes, rather than the PGA Tour’s 72 holes, and there are no players cut during tournament play.
#Download cnn news video series#
1 Greg Norman, the team-based LIV series is backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) - a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia - and has pledged to award $250 million in total prize money. The 9/11 issue is just one of a number of criticisms of the LIV Golf series.įronted by former world No. While some may not agree, we believe golf is a force for good around the world.” In response to the criticism, LIV Golf told CNN in a statement: “As we have said all along, these families have our deepest sympathy.
Still, the victims’ families have pushed for further disclosures, and last year, the FBI released a document that details the FBI’s work to investigate the alleged logistical support that a Saudi consular official and a suspected Saudi intelligence agent in Los Angeles provided to at least two hijackers. The 9/11 Commission established by Congress said in 2004 that it had found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded” al Qaeda. Fifteen of the 19 al Qaeda terrorists who hijacked four planes were Saudi nationals, but the Saudi government has denied any involvement in the attacks.
The allegations of Saudi government complicity with the attacks on September 11, 2001, have long been the subject of dispute in Washington. Players have also been criticized for abandoning the established PGA Tour and DP World Tour in search of eye-watering money payoffs. Speaking on Tuesday at a press conference near the Bedminster course, Terry Strada, chair of 9/11 Families United - a coalition of families and survivors of the 2001 terror attacks - said that playing such a tournament so close to the venue of the worst terrorist attack in American history is wrong. His comments come as a 9/11 survivors’ group has said it is “appalled” by the “offensive, disrespectful and hurtful” LIV Golf tour ahead of the New Jersey event being staged about 50 miles (80km) from the site of the deadly terror attack. “If you don’t take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were.” “All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big ‘thank you’ from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. Earlier this month, Trump told golfers that they should join the LIV Golf series and “take the money now.”