NYPD official: Hatchet perpetrator intended to commit act of terror

[hrmjustin]

Jim Dolan

JAMAICA (WABC) -- New York City police shot and killed a man they say critically injured a patrol officer with a hatchet in Jamaica, Queens, Thursday. Police Commissioner William Bratton is calling it an act of terror.

"I'm very comfortable this was a terrorist attack," he said. "We will attempt to confirm...this the 16th (terror attack since 9/11), where we are definitively to bring closure to it. As I'm looking at this, at this particular point in time, I would be comfortable, our preliminary evaluation is that this was a terrorist act."

Federal officials, however, were not willing to go so far, saying they have yet to make a determination of the hatchet attack was, in fact, terrorism. Their leading theory continues to be he was anti-cop and anti-government, and there's some indication the suspect was recently in Ferguson, Missouri, attending anti-police rallies.

http://7online.com/news/nypd-official-hatchet-perpetrator-intended-to-commit-act-of-terror/362963/

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. If I were him, I'd want to believe it was an 'act of terror' too.

And not simply people getting pissed off at cops killing people around the country and starting to see them as 'the enemy'.

[hrmjustin]

2. I think they probably have good reason to think it was terrorism.

[shenmue]

3. Good Lord

I'm from Flushing myself. Makes me scared to think of people like this just wandering around.