JIHAD TERROR IN NYC!
The hatchet-wielding Muslim ‘jihad warrior’ who attacked four NYPD officers earlier today and was then shot dead by police may have had ties to ISIS.
MUSLIM HATCHET MAN
VOCATIV (h/t whuptdue) Law-enforcement sources we spoke with identified Zale Thompson as the armed man who charged at a group of NYPD uniformed police assembled on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, at around 2 p.m. today. The 32-year-old Muslim, who lived in Queens, struck one of the officers in the back of the head with his hatchet and gashed another on the arm, the police said. . The NBC News report describes the profile picture of his Facebook page as appearing to be “a Muslim warrior.”
NBC reported Thompson allegedly assaulted the officers at 2 p.m. when they were asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture. According to Police Commisioner Bill Bratton, the hatchet-wielding perpetrator assaulted the group from behind – “unprovoked and not speaking a word.”
