News: Terrorist Attack in New York City

Police officers slashed by apparent Islamic terrorist near Times Square on New Year’s Eve

An apparently Islamic terrorist attacked police on New Year’s Eve, according to the New York Post. The terrorist, a New England resident reportedly on a U.S. terrorist watchlist, traveled to New York City on the U.S. government’s passenger rail monopoly, Amtrak, and slashed police. Three officers were injured in the siege.

Accused New Year’s Eve police slasher and attacker’s post on Facebook. Police suspect the knife-wielding terrorist may be motivated by religion.

The Post reports that the terrorist has been identified by police as football athlete Trevor Bickford. Police are investigating the 19-year-old, who was arrested and pictured in the New York Post with a dog that’s apparently a pit bull. In another picture, he’s wearing the ubiquitous swoosh logo of a top sportswear company. Cops told the newspaper that Bickford “is believed to have become a radicalized [Moslem] in recent years…” The young man reportedly wrote and packed a last will and testament, a diary and camping gear on his rail trip from New England to Manhattan.

The suspected religious terrorist plans to join fellow Islamic militants in Afghanistan to fight against the infidel. The Post reports that Bickford was named to a government school “honor roll” in Maine. He was arrested for attacking two police officers in the head with a 18-inch knife around 10pm on New Year’s Eve on Eighth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Street in Manhattan. Both police officers on patrol just outside the Times Square ball drop security area—who may have been targeted for being police—were rushed to Bellevue Hospital.

A third police officer was also injured and transported to Mt. Sinai West. One of the cops shot the suspected terrorist in the shoulder after the attacker sliced police. The newspaper reports that Bickford, a member of Wells High School’s championship Warriors football team, became a Moslem terrorist after his father died of a drug overdose in 2018. Police told the Post that Boston’s FBI office has an open case on Bickford, who, like most Islamic terrorists who’ve attacked in the United States, was already on a watchlist due to his “radicalization.” The man’s aunt alerted police when Bickford, who attends or has attended Islamic prayers at a local New England mosque, apparently made his desire to join jihadists explicit.

While the marginalized New York Post, a newspaper Leonard Peikoff once cited as a preferred source for gathering facts about news, reported the attacker’s background in Islamic terrorism, the nation’s alliance of establishment media, the Associated Press, ran the headline: “NY officers injured, suspect shot near New Year’s Eve event” without a single reference to the attacker’s name, motive or affiliation with religion.

On the contrary, the AP report downplayed the New York City terrorist attack—claiming that the “incident did not impact the festivities in Times Square, which continued uninterrupted”—and does not report the suspect’s religion. The AP notes that one police officer’s skull is fractured but adopts an assuring tone, asserting that “authorities said they didn’t believe there was any ongoing threat to the public” and that a FBI assistant director contends that the FBI “believes the attacker acted alone.”

Sources: Associated Press, New York Post