![]() Travis Seward, general manager for 10Best at USA TODAY, was at the event. He witnessed a man "bound" toward the stage from the audience with his "arms out swinging." Seward said that he did not hear the man shout anything and that Rushdie tried to get away from the attacker and fell. He wrote book after book, taught, lectured, travelled, met with readers, married, divorced, and became a fixture in the city that was his. Someone who's been out there unafraid despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life, it seems." Kathy Hochul said in a statement that Rushdie "is an individual who has spent decades speaking truth to power. "Salman Rushdie – with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced – stands for essential, universal ideals," Biden said in the statement. "These are the building blocks of any free and open society."Įarlier Friday, New York Gov. ![]() ![]() President Joe Biden released a statement on Saturday saying he and first lady Jill Biden were "shocked and saddened" about the "vicious attack," adding that he was "grateful" to the first responders who rushed to Rushdie's side. ![]()
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