Posted on 12/22/2015 1:13:55 PM PST by SamAdams76
NEW YORK - A "credible threat" has been lodged against New York City, days ahead of Christmas and during an especially busy time of the year when tourists flock to the Big Apple, law enforcement sources told PIX11 News Tuesday.
Top NYPD brass including Commissioner William Bratton held an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss the threat and their response to it, sources said. Few details were released about the nature of the threat.
A federal law enforcement source said the threat is not specific and could take place in several major U.S. cities.
All New York City police officers received a bulletin Tuesday afternoon outlining the department's tactical plan and warning officers to stay vigilant, according to sources. That internal memo mentioned social media being used as a tactic and that a possible attack could come without warning.
Expect to see increased police presence at iconic locations across multiple boroughs, including Times Square, St. Patrick's Cathedral for Midnight Mass on Thursday, and Barclays Center in Brooklyn, marking the first time a threat has sparked a swell of police presence in a borough other than Manhattan.
Sources said several factors lead them to believe this threat is credible, including the reliability of the source, the nature of the threat and the timing, specifically that the holidays are approaching.
News of a threat against the city comes exactly one week after a menacing email was sent to public school districts in New York and Los Angeles. That "specific" message, which Bratton said contained outlandish threats that mirrored recent episodes of the show "Homeland," sparked the total closure of Los Angeles schools. Officials in New York determined the emailed threat was a hoax.
Still, New York City has been on high alert since the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 victims and injured hundreds more in a calculated assault executed by three teams of three assailants each, armed with explosive vests, belts and assault rifles. ISIS took responsibility for the carnage.
After the Paris attack, a video released by the terror group surfaced showing several scenes in New York City, including Times Square, a GAP in Herald Square, T.G.I. Friday's and yellow taxi cabs on city streets.
At the time, Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio said there was no new or credible threat against the city but urged residents and visitors alike to be vigilant and report suspicious activity.
Then, on Dec. 2, a married couple unleashed a terror attack at a facility for individuals with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino, Calif., stoking the fear of terror attacks happening on U.S. soil.
Armed with multiple assault rifles, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik burst into a conference room at Inland Regional Center and opened fire. In all, 14 people were killed, ranging in age from 26 to 60, and 21 victims were hurt. The suspects were shot dead when they tried to take on dozens of police officers as they fled in a black SUV.
FBI investigators said Farook and Malik had been "radicalized for some time" but said they likely were not directed by ISIS to carry out the attack.
Any suspicious behavior should be reported to the nearest police officer, by calling 911 or 1-888-NYC-SAFE.
Tips can also be submitted via the app "See Say," which lets users send a photo or message of any suspicious activity they see to the New York State Intelligence Center. Officials will then review the tip and if it’s a major threat, will call in additional law enforcement.
The app doesn't replace the 911 system, but rather is another way citizens can help prevent a potentially deadly attack.
It will be some coordinated event - as someone here described it, a new Tet offensive. (If you don’t know what this was, look it up,)
Both the Paris killers and the San Berdoo killers jumped the gun, either out of personal spite or bcause of miscommunication. That is, in both cases it seems that other attacks were expected to happen at the same time, but didn’t. I think the San Berdoo jihadis were supposed to attack the high school, but the guy wanted to finish off the Christian that he had been trying to convert (who had had the nerve to argue with him!) and after doing that he realized that he wouldn’t be able to get into the high school.
So we can only hope that the jihadis, with their their pea sized brains and serious anger management problems, will keep on tripping themselves up out of their natural stupidity and Muslim rage boy stuff.
However, one of these days they’ll pull it off. I hope it’s not this week, since I’m back in my homeland, the Upper West Side, for the week and I plan to go to midnight mass just off Times Square (Holy Innocents).
these folks could paralyze the Nation by just having their people randomly attack supermarkets. I pray they dont but even a single attacker with a small pistol... multiplied
I remember going to "First Night" in Boston many years ago, which is Boston's version of what NYC does in Times Square. Of course alcohol was forbidden. Of course, me and my friends found a way around it. We put our booze in Gatorade bottles and after we were done, the empty Gatorade bottles served as rather convenient receptacles for our..."waste product."
One of the benefits of being a guy. It was dark, it was cold, we all had layers of clothing on. Nobody around us was ever any the wiser.
I object to the term folks to describe isis. The Won uses folks a lot too when appealing to us about who we are.
I wonder if a false flag is in the works where the DHS ultimately blames Trump’s “Islamophobic comments”.
Was wondering what that word meant lol Greg Gufeld on ‘The Five’ was having a temper tantrum over it, and his sidekick, Dana, was cheering him on.
It's that YOU either are abjectingly lacking in reading comprehension, or refuse to see/take in what I post. Perhaps it's a little of both, as well as your having attended substandard schools.
Maybe a gun can get through, but no pressure cookers, nor anything else like that.
evidently its the varsity team that are presenting the threat.
Or maybe the ladies' auxiliary
Look go on the internet and look up the word "Schlonged". I don't give a flying f**K what you think or know it means. People look it up to determine what he said. My comprehension allows me to look up meanings that I don't know. When you tell me what you post that is in opposition to everything I read I had a tendency to doubt you. And speaking of substandard schools what the hell is "abjectingly"?
What if they’re disguised as ‘business’ deliveries?
Was in Rockefeller Center a few weekends ago for the tree and other than the rent a cops, there were maybe a few NYPD cops scattered here or there. I’m sure there were plain clothes and undercover officers around, but the visible presence was next to none.
They do NOT get into Times Square on New Year’s Eve; never have done.
I object to you objecting to me,and comparing me to Won, so there!
“Friend of mine is a NYC cop....walks Time Square.”
Good lord,I hope he gets a better assignment soon.
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Lot of police presence too. It's a well run department and for that reason, Manhattan is probably the safest place in the country. I'm not kidding. Yes, you have your scam artists (especially around Times Square) and bums are everywhere. But you definitely feel pretty safe, even down in the subways.
Keep it up...you just keep proving that your reading comprehension skills are problematic for you.
As I said earlier to you, just because something is on the net, doesn't mean it's factual nor true. And by that, I don't mean my posts. LOL
The schools that I attended, way back when they used to actually teach....were big on vocabulary. Go improve yours!
No. They’re thinking of running a republican.
Is the “HOMELESS” problem as big in Grand Central, as the Post has been saying ?
I have to say, it is not just some website that transcribed “schlong”, it is just about every news site including FOX.
Not the same word. It is a profane slang word for male stuff.
Maybe Trump MEANT to say “schlonk”, but he did not. Not what I heard; soft sound, not hard like k.
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