Posted on 10/23/2014 5:23:25 PM PDT by jimbo123
The hatchet-wielding man who attacked four NYPD officers earlier today and was then shot dead by police may have had ties to ISIS, sources told Vocativ.
Law-enforcement sources we spoke with identified Zale Thompson as the armed man who charged at a group of NYPD uniformed police assembled on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, at around 2 p.m. today. The 32-year-old Muslim, who lived in Queens, struck one of the officers in the back of the head with his hatchet and gashed another on the arm, the police said.
After they were provoked, two of the four cops drew their weapons and fired several times, gunning the attacker down; the gunfire struck a 29-year-old woman who happened to be walking by. Her condition was critical, authorities said.
Law-enforcement sources said that a look into Thompson’s chatter online revealed he had ties to a radical U.S.-based radical Islamic leader who advocated aggression against the American government.
Last month, Thompson, who says on his Facebook page that he graduated from the Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, commented on YouTube: “If you’re looking for ‘perfect’ Muslims who never make any mistakes in their Jihad, then you will be looking in vain! If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah!”
(Excerpt) Read more at vocativ.com ...
More "senseless violence?"
Oh yeah....MAY have been!!!!! LOL!!! Hope the cops are OK,but ALL these JIHADIS need to be KILLED!!!!
A sweet lad.
There are plenty more like him out there.
wow, no one saw that coming did they?
Nah can’t be true, Islam is all about peace and love don’t ya know/sarc
This will not be the last such attack. Unfortunately the severity of the mayhem in crowded cities will only get worse.
No, workplace violence. Because the cops were on duty. President Obola demands you get your head right.
At least our law enforcement sent this dirtbag to his 72 virgins before he could kill someone.
ping!
fb page is so cia it’s funny. attended columbia, no nwo connections there !
Even if proven beyond a reasonable doubt 0bambam will never agree.
Thanks for posting. Ban hatchets. /sarc
And just a few hours later a confirmed case of ebola.
“The cops yelled ‘Drop it!’” said rattled eyewitness Larry Bethune, 44, of Hollis, Queens, recalling the moment the psycho pulled a small hatchet from his jacket. “And he lunged at one of them,” the witness remembered. “He raised his arm up high and brought it straight down on the cop’s head. “The cop went down to the ground, face first. It was horrible. I’ve never seen anything like that on Jamaica Avenue,” he added. “The cop’s just lying there with blood pouring down his face. He didn’t move.”(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com posted at FR earlier here
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NBC: Cop Attacked With Ax in Queens, Suspect Shot Dead: Police
"Cops The officers, all recent graduates of the Police Academy assigned to the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica, were asked to pose for a picture by a freelance photographer at the intersection of 162nd Street and Jamaica Avenue shortly before 2 p.m. when the man attacked them from behind, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.The suspect "charged at the officers with a hatchet in his hand," Bratton said. "Unprovoked and not speaking a word, the male then swung at one of the officers with a hatchet, striking his right arm. After striking that officer, the suspect continuing swinging the hatchet, striking a second officer in the head."
The man is captured on video pulling the 12-inch hatchet from a black backpack, police say.
Of, course, his facebook page may be packed with lies, but he leads us to believe he is an Ivyleague graduate. Color me surprised...NOT!
Thanks for the ping. I didn’t hear about this happening.
Is this guy actually from that part of the world, or just a faux Islamist?
Another one good to be dead.
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