Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
NYC Ax Terror: Suspect Attacks 4 Officers with Hatchet in Broad Daylight 10/23/2014
Published on Oct 23, 2014 by YouHotNews
Islam convert shot dead after ax attack on NYPD cops
By Larry Celona, Reuven Fenton, Kirstan Conley and Laura Italiano
October 23, 2014 | 3:31p.m.
New York Post
A hatchet-swinging psycho with Islamic militant leanings turned a busy Queens street corner into a scene of bloody chaos Thursday, chopping a rookie cop in the back of the head and slicing a second officer on the arm before two other officers shot him dead.
In opening fire on the madman, cops accidentally wounded a bystander, ¬authorities said.
Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, had just four months on the job when Zale Thompson, 32, of Queens — a “scholarly” but “weird” ¬recent convert to Islam — fractured the back of the cop’s skull with one swing of a blue-handled hatchet at about 2 p.m. in Jamaica.
A 29-year-old woman walking a half-block away was struck in the back by a stray police bullet and was in stable condition, according to police sources.
The NYPD is investigating whether Islamic extremism played a role in the attack, which left the rookie in serious but stable condition Thursday night.
“Helicopters, big military will be useless on their own soil,” Thompson raged in a private Facebook post, Fox News reported.
“They will not be able to defeat our people if we use guerilla warfare. Attack their weak flanks,” he added.
“There’s nothing we know at this time that would indicate that [Islamic terrorism] is the case,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a press conference at Jamaica Hospital.
“That’s what the investigation will attempt to determine,” Bratton said as Healey, the son of a 34-year Nassau County police detective, underwent surgery.
The second injured cop, Officer Joseph Meeker, also a four-month rookie, was “conscious and alert” at Jamaica Hospital, police said.
Video shows Thompson pulling the hatchet from a bag, then taking a running leap at Healey and his three companions as they stood together on the rainy sidewalk.
Holding the hatchet in two hands like a baseball bat, he swung three times, one source who saw the video told The Post.
The first swing broke the one cop’s arm. The second was a miss. The third struck Healey in the back of the head.
“The cops yelled, ‘Drop it!’ ” --recalled eyewitness Larry Bethune, 44, who watched the violence unspool at Jamaica Avenue and 160th Street.
“He raised his arm up high and brought it straight down on the cop’s head,” the Hollis resident added.
“The cop went down to the ground face-first . . . The cop’s just lying there with blood pouring down his face. He didn’t move.”
Another witness, Kelli Reddica, 24, recalled hearing seven police bullets ring out as Thompson was taken down — and seeing the young cop’s horrible head injury.
“He looked like he couldn’t move, and blood was gushing out of his head,” Reddica said of Healey. “Blood just drenched the side of his face,” she said.
Thompson is being investigated for broader terrorist connections, a law enforcement source said, adding, “There are suspected terror ties.”
Thompson’s Facebook page includes a passage from the Quran in Arabic script beseeching Allah’s guidance in finding “the straight path” and a black-and-white photograph of a black-scarved militant.
Thompson was a “very educated” proponent of “black power” and a graduate of the College of New Rochelle in Harlem, said a classmate who asked not to be identified by name.
“He always spoke positively,” said the classmate, who was unaware of any Islamic leanings.
But former neighbors at Thompson’s address in East New York, Brooklyn, said that in recent months he had become “weird” and argumentative, fighting with his girlfriend and mother -before moving to Jamaica this year.
Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fonrouge and C.J. Sullivan
Ax attacker wanted ‘white people to pay’ for slavery
By Kevin Fasick, Amber Jamieson and Laura Italiano
October 25, 2014 | 11:37 p.m.
New York Post
The self-radicalized madman who attacked four rookie Queens cops with a hatchet had more than just ¬jihad on his mind — he also wanted to kill white people.
“He wanted white people to pay for all that slavery and all that racism,” the father of slain hatchet loon Zale Thompson, 32, told The Post Saturday. “I think he committed suicide — and he was taking one of y’all with him,” his father, Ralph Thompson, said, speaking through the screen door of the two-story Queens Village house where his unhinged son also once lived.
Asked if “one of y’all” meant white people,” the father said, “Yeah.”
“He just said, ‘They have to pay for all their unfairness,’ ” the father added.
“Unfairness for the way they treat black people.”
Zale Thompson, 32, was shot dead on a Jamaica, Queens, sidewalk Thursday after he lunged with a blue-handled hatchet at four rookie cops, striking Officer Joseph Meeker, 24, in the arm and Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, in the back of the head. Both those officers are white, as is the third cop. The fourth cop is a light-skinned Hispanic.
“I didn’t know it would get that serious,” the father said wearily of his son, a Navy veteran described by former friends as “bright” but radically pro-“black power” in his youth and a Muslim convert in recent years.
“I didn’t know he was going to carry on a mission on his own,” added the father.
Unconnected to any terror group or even any mosque, and with no criminal record in New York, Zale Thompson was unknown to law enforcement as a potential threat, police sources said.
But over the last several years, he was quietly becoming an ardent devourer of violent Islamic propaganda, police said.
“This guy spent every waking moment on the Internet,” said one law-enforcement source. Police are looking back as far as five years to see whether anyone else Thompson communicated with is a threat.
“He Googled the words ‘jihad against police,’ ” the source said of Thompson’s more recent activity. “He also looked up [news stories on] the two Canadian attacks” last week, the source added, referring to so-called “lone wolf” jihadist shooting of a ceremonial guard in Ottawa and a fatal attack on a soldier in Quebec.
ISIS extremists have been urging lone-wolf attacks on police and soldiers in Europe and the United States.
Following the attack, police brass on Friday ordered that foot patrols citywide be conducted in pairs.
“Strike their police, security and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents,” ISIS spokesman Aub Mohammad al-Adnani posted on Sept. 21. “If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him or poison him.”
Another extremist essay — titled, “To 2.6M Muslims in USA: A Call to Arms to Defend Islam and Avenge the Slaughter of Muslims” and published Sept. 16 — directly encouraged jihadi wannabes to attack cops.
“Knocking off a police, military or any other law-enforcement officer sends a chilling message to the so-called ‘civilians’ and fills their hearts with consternation,” it reads.
Zale Thompson’s own rants mirrored the hate-mongers’ rhetoric. “America’s military is strong abroad, but they have never faced an internal mass revolt,” he wrote on Facebook, where his page featured a photo of a Muslim warrior with a turban and sword. “They are weaker at home. We are scattered and decentralized, we can use this as an advantage.”
ISIS especially knows how to “hit a lot of different kinds of people’s buttons,” noted David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center of Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University.
“It can be about violence or adventure,” he said. “It can be about the politics.”
Thompson’s downward spiral may have begun in the Navy. He enlisted in early 2001 and spent nearly two years stationed on California’s Ventura County naval base as a “Seabee,” a nickname for a construction-worker soldier.
A Navy source described Thompson as a “troublemaker” who “wasn’t a good sailor.” Suspected drug use and numerous unauthorized absences got him booted from the Navy in August 2003, the source said.
This Obama has imported our enemies right into our midst, just as Clinton, and George Bush had did before what Muslim in chief has imported. Our enemies don't need invasion forces. Our enemies have the US government. Once our enemies have breached our borders it's an easy task to find weapons to attack us. Almost any weapon will do and it's all free to our enemies.
ReplyDeleteBright and educated so they say.
ReplyDeleteThey need to research everything this fool has ever read or militant speech he may have heard.
Any tracts or "sermons" of the Nation of Islam for instance.
Then those police should sue in civil court the Nation of Islam for damages and bankrupt the organization. Go after the deep pockets of Louis Walcott [Farrakhan] for instance. Hurt him in the pocketbook. Establishing a climate of hate that resulted in the attack on the police officers.
They always describe these fools as "converts" to Islam. I doubt any of those morons could even tell you a thing about Islam other than it is a hate whitey and get whitey religion. Religion so called.
ReplyDeleteAnd the numbers of others like this man out there. So full of hate and waiting to strike. Legion as they say.