Nicole Parker Former FBI Special Agent Says 9:11 Motivated Her to Join the Force

You know what's crazy about that story?

My parents lived in Brooklyn on Quentin Road by Madison High School.

Believe it or not, there were papers from the World Trade Center on my parents' lawn.

in Brooklyn.

You know, you're an FBI agent, and look, there's a lot of real scumbags out there, Nicole, okay, that say that, oh, Sid, Mr. Israel First, that's what a lot of folks call me these days, okay? You know, Israel was the one that did this, or there were no planes.

How can you be that stupid? Clearly, there were explosives.

I saw it.

No, I saw it.

It really is infuriating to me to hear these conspiracy theorists, because I was like, I was there.

That is insulting to the victims, to the survivors, to the fallen FDNY, Port Authority Police Department, NYPD, all of those heroes.

We were there.

We saw it.

Like, I felt it.

I saw it.

And then when that second plane came in, we're like, okay, this is not an accident.

And that was the point when...

I truly started to panic.

I was terrified.

I just thought, what is going on? Like I'm, you know, this young girl from Texas, just, you know, living the dream in New York City on Wall Street.

And then all of a sudden it turned into a horrible nightmare.

But the worst part.

was when people started jumping.

And that changes you.

Believe it or not, that was

the next day, Nicole, the cover of the New York Post, September 12th, 2001. was pictures of people jumping out of the building because they thought that was an easier death than being burned alive by jet fuel.