GoFundMe set up a fund to thwart a terrorist`s "Shopping cart Heroes" in the (Bourke Street) attacks on Melbourne Street, which nearly tripled its initial funding target in less than a day.
In a deadly terrorist attack in Melbourne, a bystander known as a "shopping cart man" attacked an armed terrorist with a shopping cart. When his story was revealed, he said he was "not a hero."
Michael Rogers,46, aged 9, tried to help police subdue Hassan Khalif Shire Ali. during the (Bourke Street) terrorist attack on Burke Street on 9 November. One man has been stabbed to death, and two others have been stabbed. Homeless Rogers started crashing into terrorist with a shopping cart trying to help the police.
"I threw the cart directly at him and caught him," Rogers said at the scene of the attack. But I didn`t knock him down. I`m not a hero. " Since then, GoFundMe has set up a fund for Rogers, raising more than 20, 000 yuan in less than a day.
The fund-raising campaign was launched by Melbourne-based homeless organization (Melbourne Homeless Collective), a registered charity designed to help homeless people.
"all the money from this donation will go directly to Mr. Rogers to help him regain his good life." "he`s a hero in our eyes, and he can use the money to do what he thinks is best. He risked his life that day without paying anything back. It`s priceless. " The charity initially set a ceiling of 5000 yuan, but later said it would no longer set a ceiling because there were too many supporters.
"We were shocked by everyone`s generosity," the charity said. "they helped our hero, the Shopping cart Man, get back on his feet." "We have far exceeded our original fund-raising targets. Our hero is definitely worth having. "
Just 24 hours after Rogers risked his life to save others, we searched all over Australia for the humble hero and then found him, sitting on the park bench.
The report said Rogers, one of two bystanders in the attack, was homeless, but he was not worried about his phone being smashed during the attack, although he had no way to replace it. Rogers ran to one side of the street to pick up the cart, and then pushed the cart onto Ali, who was waving a knife at the police, as seen in a video of the terror attacks posted on the Internet by social media.
The sudden cart seemed to frighten Ali and his shooters fell to the ground. Then the terrorist ran across the road and the police followed him. Rogers also got up to catch up and pushed the shopping cart again toward the assailant.
His actions have been widely praised on social media, calling him a "cart hero" and asking him to win a medal or become Australia`s prime minister. It was reported that Mr. Rogers was unaware of the attention being paid to his actions. A witness said she was talking to Rogers at the scene, and Rogers told her that his actions were "just an instinct to help the police keep others safe."
Rogers says he believes he did help save lives. "I saw the cart parked on one side, so I picked it up, ran over it, threw it directly at him, hit him, but didn`t knock him down," he said. "I hit him several times in a row, but I didn`t knock him down." A few minutes later, Ali was shot at breast by the police and died at the hospital last night.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the assailant, born in Somalia, was a violation of Australia`s trust in a suburb of northwest Melbourne.
"in Australia, the largest threat of religious extremism is the radical and dangerous ideology of the extremist group IS," he said.
Ali is a member of Australia`s counter-Terrorism Watch list of about 400 people, Morrison said. At a news conference on Nov. 10, the state police confirmed that Ali had been known to intelligence agencies for years, but that he had not been heavily monitored before the attack. They said his passport was revoked in 2015 after ASIO confirmed he planned to travel to Syria.
