Man with axe attacks NYPD officers, makes ultimate sacrifice

[X-Terminator]

A Muslim terrorist sympathizer with a death wish. Lord knows we've never seen one of them before.

A man armed with a hatchet who attacked a group of rookie cops on a Queens street, critically injuring one, was shot dead by the officers on Thursday afternoon, and a female bystander was hit by an errant round.

Police are investigating the possibility that the attacker killed on a rainswept shopping corridor, identified by police sources as Zale Thompson, 32, had links to terrorism. A Zale Thompson on Facebook is pictured wearing a keffiyeh and had a recent terrorism-related conversation with one of his Facebook friends, according to a police source.

Thompson made no statements as he approached the four officers with hatchet in hand on Jamaica Ave. near 162nd St. in Jamaica at 2 p.m., officials said.

The officers, who all graduated from the academy in July, had huddled together to take a photo for a freelance photographer when Thompson ran up and started swinging, striking a 24-year-old cop in the right arm, said NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1984914

[Steelman]

Wtf.

[Dwinsgames]

Title should be ....

Man with no brains attacks Police with Axe ....

you got to be monumentally stupid , or really super freaking mentally disturbed ..... or BOTH

[zulater]

Prayers to the victims for a full and fast recovery.

[ALLD]

It looks like they are going online to a propaganda site which advocates attacking police and their families and government officials. In any case have situation awareness and be on guard when out in public.

[stillers4me]

This is exactly why the second amendment must be upheld. This is going to happen over and over again. Beheadings and barbarians armed with knives, hatchets, and homemade bombs.

It will the average American that puts an end to this long before this government ever wakes up. Remember when airplane passengers said no one is take a plane with box cutters again and took it upon themselves to overtake these morons?

It's time to stop waiting for this government to protect us. I expect very soon, one of these crazy nut jobs will be taken out by an armed citizen.

[GoSlash27]

Never take a hatchet to a gunfight.

Best,
-Slashy

[fansince'76]

It's time to stop waiting for this government to protect us. I expect very soon, one of these crazy nut jobs will be taken out by an armed citizen.

And ten bucks says the lib media makes the armed citizen, who had every right to self defense, out to be the bad guy. Or they'll turn it into a racial issue...

[Godfather]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

However, I find this to be the most disturbing part:

a female bystander was hit by an errant round.

Just like the hostage they killed a few months ago and the "mass shooting" downtown a little further back. I don't know any other police department that routinely hits innocent bystanders. They need to spend a little more time at the gun range so they can hit their target and only their target.

[BnG_Hevn]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

However, I find this to be the most disturbing part:



Just like the hostage they killed a few months ago and the "mass shooting" downtown a little further back. I don't know any other police department that routinely hits innocent bystanders. They need to spend a little more time at the gun range so they can hit their target and only their target.

Have you ever been in a a close quarter gun fight? Hitting your target with every round is not always possible, especially if the round came from an office who is hit by a hatchet as he is firing.

There is such a thing as "legitimate collateral damage".

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In fact, I'll take it a step further by saying the officers did a good job by not allowing the damage to go any further. What happens if the attacker kills all the cops, do you think he will put the hatchet away and slink off into the darkness?

OR, do you think he'd turn on any passersby?

[Craic]

Have you ever been in a a close quarter gun fight? Hitting your target with every round is not always possible, especially if the round came from an office who is hit by a hatchet as he is firing.

There is such a thing as "legitimate collateral damage".

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In fact, I'll take it a step further by saying the officers did a good job by not allowing the damage to go any further. What happens if the attacker kills all the cops, do you think he will put the hatchet away and slink off into the darkness?

OR, do you think he'd turn on any passersby?

My only problem with what you posted here, is that if it was a regular citizen that fired that round, he or she'd be charged and put in jail. There is a distinct double-standard for police verses civilians when it comes to hitting bystanders while defending life.

[BnG_Hevn]

My only problem with what you posted here, is that if it was a regular citizen that fired that round, he or she'd be charged and put in jail. There is a distinct double-standard for police verses civilians when it comes to hitting bystanders while defending life.

I don't agree.

If a civilian is legally carrying a concealed weapon (by legally meaning he is a law abiding citizen carrying a registered weapon and has had the proper training etc … ), is attached by a person with a hatchet, ESPECIALLY a terrorist-wannebe type, takes a hit from the hatchet while drawing his weapon, fires the weapon and hits a nearby bystander, you'd be pretty hard-pressed getting that passed the grand jury.

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What many people fail to realize is that you can be arrested and charged all day long, but at the end of the day it comes down to a grand jury determining if it goes to trial and THEN it would be a trial by jury.

Under the scenario above, I can't imagine any way the person would go to jail. Now, he / she may spend a tidy sum on legal fees, but I don't see jail time.

[Lady Steel]

My fiance is in law enforcement. Anyone who may go after him will rue the day he or she did so. I have no mercy for this shit.