The Misidentification Of Ahmed Al Ahmed, Sydney Bondi Beach Shooting Hero | Read
In the hours after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern Australian history, the footage that travelled fastest across social media was of a man lunging from behind, wrapping his arms around a gunman, wrestling a firearm away as shots rang out at Sydney's Bondi Beach. The man was quickly hailed as a hero. His name, Ahmed Al Ahmed, was widely shared. So too was a detail that turned out to be wrong.
