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According to US media, Trevor Bickford lately exhibited indicators of radicalisation and should have sought to commit a suicide assault.
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A 19-year-old man who attacked cops with a machete on New Year’s Eve in Manhattan was charged on Monday with assault and tried homicide, the New York Police Department mentioned.
The fees have been introduced in opposition to Trevor Bickford, who police say attacked three officers simply outdoors the Times Square safety zone the place New Yorkers gathered by the tens of 1000’s on New Year’s Eve.
The assailant hit two officers on the top, with out inflicting life-threatening harm, earlier than one other officer used his service weapon to wound him within the shoulder.
Bickford is from Wells, a small coastal city in Maine, the New York Police Department mentioned, with out offering additional particulars.
‘Extremist statements’
According to US media, Bickford lately exhibited indicators of radicalisation and should have sought to commit a suicide assault.
He was carrying a diary wherein he had expressed his need to hitch the Afghan Taliban and die as a martyr, CNN mentioned, citing nameless sources.
The FBI had questioned him in mid-December after one in all his relations warned the bureau of his extremist statements, NBC News reported.
An FBI counterintelligence unit is concerned within the investigation, New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell mentioned at a news convention Sunday.
Source: AFP
