Machete-Wielding Man Who Attacked Cops In Times Square Sentenced: DOJ
NEW YORK CITY, NY — A man who brazenly attacked three NYPD officers with a machete in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2022 has been sentenced to serve 27 years in prison.Trevor Bickford, 20, of Wells, Maine, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to terrorism charges in January, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors said Bickford went on a violent rampage on Dec. 31, 2022, targeting police in an attack inspired by "radical Islamic extremism.""(Bickford's) brutal ambush of three New York City police officers keeping watch over New Year’s Eve celebrations was a premeditated act of terrorism," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. "Police officers work tirelessly to protect the communities they serve and assaults on them are reprehensible."According to court documents, Bickford — a U.S. citizen and a resident of Maine — traveled to New York City to, in his own words, "wage jihad and kill as many targets as possible."Prosecutors said Bickford went to Times Square armed with a machete during the annual New Year's Eve celebration where he ambushed three NYPD officers and declared "Allahu Akbar," an Arabic phrase meaning “God is great."Prosecutors said the officers were seriously injured when Bickford swung the machete at their heads. He also tried to grab an officer's gun during the attack. According to court documents, one of the officers stopped Bickford by shooting him in the shoulder.Bickford later declared his goal in the attack was to kill as many military-aged men who worked for the U.S. government as possible before killing himself and becoming a "martyr" in the attack.According to prosecutors, Bickford planned the attack by consuming materials espousing radical Islamic ideology. In the months leading up to the attack, Bickford planned on traveling overseas to support and ally himself with the Taliban.Prosecutors said Bickford eventually decided not to travel overseas and carry out an attack in the United States instead.The article Machete-Wielding Man Who Attacked Cops In Times Square Sentenced: DOJ appeared first on New York City, NY Patch.
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