Man Attacks NYPD Officers With Hatchet

[Webster]

CNN: Man attacks New York police officers with a hatchet

New York (CNN) -- A man charged at four New York police officers with a metal hatchet Thursday, hitting two of them at a time of high alert for authorities concerned they might be targeted in the United States and Canada. The suspect was hiding behind a bus shelter as if he was waiting to attack the officers, according to a law enforcement official, who said it almost appeared as if he was stalking them. The officers were posing for a photo when the man pounced, police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

He struck one officer in the right arm and another in the head, according to the commissioner. The two officers who weren't hit then shot at and killed the attacker.
The law enforcement official identified the suspect as Zale H. Thompson, who had a criminal record in California and had been discharged from the Navy for misconduct, according to the source.

The police officer who was struck in the head remains in critical but stable condition. The other officer, who is 24, was struck in the arm and was expected to be released soon. A 29-year-old bystander who was struck by a bullet in the lower back was also taken to a hospital. Her condition was not known.

Authorities are looking to see if the unprovoked attack, in the New York borough of Queens, is tied to recent calls by radicals to attack military and police officers, law enforcement officials say. Asked about a possible connection to terrorism, Bratton said, "There is nothing we know as of this time that would indicate that were the case. I think certainly the heightened concern is relative to that type of assault based on what just happened in Canada."

On Wednesday, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was shot and killed as he stood guard at Canada's National War Memorial before shots erupted in the halls of the country's Parliament minutes later. The Ottawa gunman had "connections" to jihadists in Canada who shared a radical Islamist ideology, including at least one who went overseas to fight in Syria, multiple U.S. sources told CNN on Thursday.

And on Monday, another Canadian soldier -- this one in Quebec -- was run over and killed by another man who the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Martine Fontaine said had been "radicalized."

New York put their officers on alert following Thursday's attack, urging them to "maintain a heightened level of awareness against random attacks," several law enforcement officials said.

It's not the only city so affected. Washington's Metropolitan Police Department has also "increased security levels and visibility, so the public should expect to see an enhanced presence of officers in light of the Canada and New York attacks, spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump told CNN.

Thoughts?

 

[+paradox]

it's funny how cops are always shooting bystanders, why?

 

[Webster]

it's funny how cops are always shooting bystanders, why?

Yeah, there was a story once, years ago, about a couple of NYPD officers who went to bust a pot dealer...ended up firing over 40 bullets, didn't hit a damn thing..except three of their own, one of the dealer's neighbors and a pit bull that was in the apartment hallway...

 

[+paradox]

it's funny how cops are always shooting bystanders, why?

Yeah, there was a story once, years ago, about a couple of NYPD officers who went to bust a pot dealer...ended up firing over 40 bullets, didn't hit a damn thing..except three of their own, one of the dealer's neighbors and a pit bull that was in the apartment hallway...

that doesn't make sense to people that have common sense...

something fishy there, no?

but, of course it's mostly what cops say is final...

 

[Webster]

NBC News: Hatchet Attack Was Terrorist Act

New York's top cop said that the man who attacked two rookie New York City cops with a hatchet Thursday before being shot to death had committed a terrorist act.

"I'm very comfortable this was a terrorist attack," said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at a press briefing Friday.

Bratton also said that although suspect Zale Thompson was apparently “inspired” by terror groups, he was “self-radicalized.”

"We at this time believe that he acted alone," said Bratton. "We would describe him as self-directed in his activities."

Thompson, a 32-year-old from Queens, had “an extensive social media presence,” said Deputy Commissioner John Miller, and “the common thread that goes through these conversations is anti-Western, anti-government and in some cases anti-white.”

Most recently, according to Miller, Thompson’s on-line activities including visiting websites focused on specific terror groups, like ISIS and al Qaeda, and looking at acts of violence that included beheadings.

“It appears,” said Miller, “that this is something that he has been thinking about for some time and thinking about with more intensity over recent days.” Miller said it was apparently “the suspect’s intent” to commit a terrorist act.

Federal officials told NBC News that “we are taking the incident seriously. We are running it to the ground. We are exploring all the options. But at this time the jury is still out as to motive.”

A freelance photographer had asked four rookie officers to pose for a photo on a sidewalk in Jamaica, Queens on Thursday afternoon when Thompson rushed the group.

Minutes before the attack, the bearded suspect was seen on a nearby street corner crouching down to take the weapon out of backpack before he charged and began swinging the hatchet with a two-handed grip.

He wounded one officer in the arm and hit another in the back of the head before the other officers shot and killed him.

"Those officers exhibited extraordinary bravery and skill in not only taking down an individual who was intent on killing them but also rendering first aid immediately to their fallen comrade," said Commissioner Bratton.

The officer with the head wound is in serious but stable condition at a local hospital, while the officer with the arm wound is due to be released from the hospital. A female bystander who was hit in the back with a stray bullet is also in the hospital in TK condition.

Detectives say Thompson was still holding the hatchet when he was pronounced dead. The attack -- and the shooting -- happened in less than 10 seconds, Bratton said.

Police obtained a warrant to search Thompson's computer for clues about the assault. The search indicated he was a convert to Islam and included references to injustices in American society and oppression abroad but offered no clear evidence of any affiliation with terror groups, police said.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Well ISIS is getting pretty successful at calling out all the extremists to action. Just wait this is just the softening up stage. Our open borders have already brought in the trained ones and what they probably have planned is going to be really ugly.

 

[+paradox]

how did i know that some how and some way they were going to blame ISIS for this too?

what happened to crazy?

like, no one can be just crazy anymore, everyone has to be a terrorist...

 

[Webster]

Well ISIS is getting pretty successful at calling out all the extremists to action. Just wait this is just the softening up stage. Our open borders have already brought in the trained ones and what they probably have planned is going to be really ugly.

Oh, wow, blame open borders for this situation...you know, maybe - just maybe - if we hadn't gone blundering into Iraq back in 2003, ISIS might not exist as it currently does...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Well ISIS is getting pretty successful at calling out all the extremists to action. Just wait this is just the softening up stage. Our open borders have already brought in the trained ones and what they probably have planned is going to be really ugly.

Oh, wow, blame open borders for this situation...you know, maybe - just maybe - if we hadn't gone blundering into Iraq back in 2003, ISIS might not exist as it currently does...

Please Read again I did not blame that attack for open borders. But we will soon enough. Diseases we have not seen in decades we can blame on open borders already though. Nonsense whatever they would be called they would be putting a targeting us if we went in or not. Thats why they are nut cases who have no rational thought process.

 

[Gizmo]

Damn that would be awful. People are always killing each other. It's awful.

We had a gun man a couple months back here. So even happens in small towns.

 

[Webster]

Well ISIS is getting pretty successful at calling out all the extremists to action. Just wait this is just the softening up stage. Our open borders have already brought in the trained ones and what they probably have planned is going to be really ugly.

Oh, wow, blame open borders for this situation...you know, maybe - just maybe - if we hadn't gone blundering into Iraq back in 2003, ISIS might not exist as it currently does...

Please Read again I did not blame that attack for open borders. But we will soon enough. Diseases we have not seen in decades we can blame on open borders already though. Nonsense whatever they would be called they would be putting a targeting us if we went in or not. Thats why they are nut cases who have no rational thought process.

Yes, I read it again..no, I'm not changing what I said earlier; quoting what you said earlier:

Our open borders have already brought in the trained ones and what they probably have planned is going to be really ugly.

Care to continue?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Well ISIS is getting pretty successful at calling out all the extremists to action. Just wait this is just the softening up stage. Our open borders have already brought in the trained ones and what they probably have planned is going to be really ugly.

Oh, wow, blame open borders for this situation...you know, maybe - just maybe - if we hadn't gone blundering into Iraq back in 2003, ISIS might not exist as it currently does...

Please Read again I did not blame that attack for open borders. But we will soon enough. Diseases we have not seen in decades we can blame on open borders already though. Nonsense whatever they would be called they would be putting a targeting us if we went in or not. Thats why they are nut cases who have no rational thought process.

Yes, I read it again..no, I'm not changing what I said earlier; quoting what you said earlier:

Our open borders have already brought in the trained ones and what they probably have planned is going to be really ugly.

Care to continue?

You should because no where in that statement did I say the current attack wad from open borders.

 

[DrLeftover]

Technical Time Out.

Going back to the "Open Border" comments:

Utah man suspected in deputies’ killings was twice deported
26 Oct

A Utah man suspected of killing two deputies during a shooting rampage in Northern California was deported twice to Mexico and had a drug conviction, federal authorities said.

The suspected shooter told Sacramento County Sheriff’s investigators that he was 34-year-old Marcelo Marquez of Salt Lake City. However, his fingerprints match the biometric records of a Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte in a federal database, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said.

Monroy-Bracamonte was first removed from the country in 1997 after being convicted in Arizona for possession of narcotics for sale. Monroy-Bracamonte was arrested and repatriated to Mexico a second time in 2001, Kice said.

"The fingerprints were the basis for our request for an immigration detainer," she said Saturday.

The detainer requests that local authorities turn him over to federal custody after his case is adjudicated so ICE can purse his deportation, Kice said.

The suspect was being held without bail on suspicion of two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of carjacking.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/1747562-155/county-deputies-bonner-davis-monroy-authorities


You will, of course, Notice that this was NOT from those disgusting haters at Fox

Thank you, carry on.