Teen Who Wanted to Join Taliban Charged in New Year’s Eve Machete Attack on Police in Times Square

A young person blamed for going after three cops with a blade close to Times Square on New Year’s Eve is currently having to deal with government psychological oppression penalties after specialists charge he planned on pursuing a blessed conflict against the U.S. government in the interest of Islam.

Trevor Thomas Bickford, 19, has been accused of felonies regarding the supposed occurrence that occurred around 10 p.m. close to a security screening zone on West 52nd Road and eighth Road, the Branch of Equity declared in a Jan. 10 news discharge. The Wells, Maine inhabitant had proactively been accused of two counts of endeavored murder of a cop and two counts of endeavored attack, a New York Police Division representative recently told Individuals.

Specialists said the suspect had pronounced “Allahu Akbar” — an Arabic expression signifying “God is perfect,” prior to wounding and striking three officials, including a tenderfoot who had graduated the other day. The officials were hospitalized with cuts and different wounds. During the showdown, Bickford was shot in the shoulder by one of the harmed officials and was likewise taken to the emergency clinic. He was arrested and held without bail in the wake of being let out of the emergency clinic, as per police.

The previous summer, Bickford purportedly started concentrating on extremist Islamic belief system, examiners claimed in a criminal objection. A portion of those materials advanced the Taliban and “mirrored the lessons of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a conspicuous extremist Islamic priest who was an otherworldly coach of al Qaeda,” specialists said.

Specialists claim that by November 2022, Bickford “devoted himself to the mission of pursuing jihad against authorities of states that he accepts are hostile to Muslim, including the U.S. Government.” He purportedly told a relative that he needed to make a trip to the Center East so he could be a self destruction plane for his religion, as indicated by the protest.

Teen Who Wanted to Join Taliban Charged in New Year’s Eve Machete Attack on Police in Times Square

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Bickford eventually concluded that he wouldn’t travel abroad, and on second thought complete his “jihadist mission” in the U.S. In December, he made a trip from Maine to New York City for the New Year’s Eve assault, accepting “all men of military age were his objectives” and needing to “kill as a considerable lot of these objectives as he could,” as per examiners.

He purportedly strolled around Times Square “attempting to sort out the perfect opportunity to kill,” and was said to have recounted refrains from the Quran in his mind to “publicity himself up” for his assault, the delivery states. After the episode, specialists said they recuperated two packs which contained books advancing Islamic fanaticism and an individual diary.

Bickford purportedly expected to die in the assault, writing in a Dec. 31 diary passage, “this will probably be my last section,” as per the delivery.

Specialists likewise claimed that he trusted his brother, a soldier in the U.S. military, had “joined the positions of my adversary.”

The man later guaranteed the assault was “ineffective” on the grounds that he killed no officials and didn’t die himself, the delivery states.

In an explanation gave on Jan. 4, the Legitimate Guide Society, a public safeguard association addressing Bickford, said, “Until further notice, we request that the public shun making hurried determinations and to regard the security of our client’s loved ones.” He is supposed to show up in a Manhattan government court sometime in the future.