Posted on 01/02/2023 7:23:36 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
"Do we know anything about the suspect's condition? I mean, the officers' condition, I should say?"
Yeah, you should say, Don. But you didn't. Betraying liberal media instincts, on today's CNN This Morning, Don Lemon first asked the reporter covering the New Year's Eve attack machete attack on three NYC police officers about the condition of the suspect. Then— perhaps realizing that his concern for the suspect over the officers wouldn't play well in much of America—Lemon tried to cover his tracks.
Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
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The suspect is a convert to Islam who attacked members of American law enforcement. So naturally, Don Lemon’s first concern is for the health of the attacker.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
I thought his first question would be to ask if he is ‘gay’ and oppressed by islam.
Andrew is working at the State House at them moment.
I’m surprised his first question wasn’t about the race of the perp and then the race of the cops.
he answer should have been, “The suspect is dead. He was killed by police.”
Lemon is the biggest dork on TV. A real Affirmative Action Hero. Without AA, the boy wouldn’t be able to get a job.
If Gillum had been elected governor, I believe he would have been biden’s VP choice. This was before being exposed as a married meth-head that has sex with male prostitutes.
And dems would have wanted him for hopes of picking up FL. After Gillum exited stage, then they went with we’re going to nominate a black woman.
Gillum could do the liberal rants with the best of them. He was clean, articulate, well-spoken, ... storybook I tell you.
Until don gets a machete stuck in his backside
Apparently, we are producing terriost in Maine these days.
FYI, This was a suburban white kid who worked at the local country club.
Wells man arrested in New Year’s Eve machete attack on New York City officers
By Joe Lawlor and Penelope Overton, Staff Writer
January 1, 2023
NEW YORK — FBI agents were seen Sunday night entering the family home of a Wells man suspected of attacking three New York City police officers a night earlier during the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration, striking two of them in the head before an officer shot the man in the shoulder.
The Associated Press, citing an unnamed law enforcement official, identified the man as Trevor Bickford, 19, of Wells, Maine. The New York Police Department late Sunday had not identified the suspect, who was being treated for his injury at Bellevue Hospital.
But an FBI spokeswoman confirmed the agency was conducting court-authorized activity in connection with an ongoing federal investigation at the same Wells house where Bickford lived with his mother, his stepfather and younger brother when he was a student at Wells High School.
“This is very much an active, ongoing investigation,” spokeswoman Kristen Setera of the FBI’s Boston office said Sunday. “The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is working closely with NYPD to determine the nature of this attack and we will run every lead to ground.”
Authorities in New York City are investigating whether the man was inspired by radical Islamic extremism, the Associated Press said, citing the unnamed official.
A man waved off a reporter attempting to approach the house Sunday, saying it was private property. Three dark-colored SUVs were parked in the driveway. Wells Police Chief Jo-Ann Putnam said Sunday night that her department was assisting but directed all questions about Bickford to the FBI.
More law enforcement, including Wells Police and uniformed FBI agents, arrived at the two-story house at around 6 p.m. and could be seen entering the home.
The attack happened a little after 10 p.m. about eight blocks from Times Square, just outside of the high-security zone where revelers are screened for weapons.
The two officers were hospitalized, one with a fractured skull and the other with a bad cut, but were expected to recover. The suspect was also expected to recover.
The attack and sound of a gunshot briefly sent some people in the crowd running, but the incident did not affect the festivities in Times Square, which continued uninterrupted.
ABC News has reported that Bickford traveled by Amtrak from Maine to New York City on Dec. 19.
Bickford’s mother, Audra D’Antilio Simpson, posted a tribute to her son on her Facebook page when he turned 19 in July.
“So proud and lucky to be able to call you my son. (You’re) an old soul and you amaze me every day with all that you enjoy to explore and do,” Simpson wrote. “I am so beyond proud of the man you are becoming.”
Bickford’s father, Tom, died unexpectedly at age 41 in 2018, according to his obituary. He had a “very active” role in the lives of their three sons, and “could often be found coaching them at football and wrestling,” the obituary said.
Bickford competed in football and wrestling while in high school, according to team programs, and was a member of the 2020 Wells High School state championship wrestling team. Jodie Lawlor, the Wells-Ogunquit school district’s athletic director, had no comment when reached by the Press Herald on Sunday.
Bickford also won an honorable mention award for jewelry in the 2020 Maine Region Scholastic Art Awards, according to the Portsmouth Herald.
Wells High School Principal Eileen Sheehy declined to comment on Bickford when reached by the Press Herald on Sunday.
ABC News reported Sunday that Bickford’s mother, Audra D’Antilio Simpson, and aunt notified law enforcement recently that he was attracted to violent Islamist ideologies, citing unnamed police sources. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is looking into the suspect, the agency said.
Neighbors in Wells, who did not wish to be identified because they know the family, said the family was known in the neighborhood, and they were surprised to hear Bickford was connected to the attack in New York City. They said Bickford had recently worked at the Old Marsh Country Club, which is located in the same neighborhood less than a mile from the residence.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference that he had spoken to one of the wounded officers as he was being stitched up at the hospital.
“He was in good spirits,” Adams said. “He understood that his role saved lives of New Yorkers today.”
An investigation was underway to pinpoint a motive for the attack, but authorities said they didn’t believe there was any ongoing threat to the public.
Michael Driscoll, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office, said they believe the attacker acted alone.
One of the injured officers only graduated from the police academy on Friday, the mayor said.
The blocks where the biggest crowds gather to see performances and the midnight ball drop can only be accessed through checkpoints where officers use metal-detecting wands to screen for weapons. Large bags and coolers are banned. Barriers are set up to prevent vehicle attacks in the secure area.
The security perimeter can only extend so far, though. The attack took place on 8th Avenue, which is often packed with thick crowds navigating around the frozen zone or trying to find one of the secure entrances.
pressherald.com/2023/01/01/new-york-officers-injured-suspect-shot-near-new-years-eve-event/
Don Lemon is a lemon.
That looks like a Gurkha kukri to me, not a machete.
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