Machete-Wielding Times Square Attacker Hit With Attempted Murder and Terrorism Charges

Trevor Bickford plead with his family ‘repent to Allah’ Before assault Machete (L), wielded Trevor Bickford (R), Times Square attacker (Twitter

Prosecutors are indicted machete-wielding Muslim extremist on several attempted murder and terrorism charges after he targeted New York City police officers in a premeditated New Year’s Eve attack.

Trevor Bickford was arrested for more than 10 offences in connection to the assault. Six of these include terrorist enhancements, according to Alvin Bragg (D.), Manhattan district attorney. The 19-year old injured three officers with his machete on the night of December 31, 2022. One of them was killed. He was also charged with attempted first degree murder in the furtherance of terrorism and attempted first degree murder.

Bragg stated in A press release These charges will be charged to your account “demonstrate just how seriously we are treating this incident.”

If convicted of all charges, Bickford, a convert to Islam, could face multiple life sentences without parole. He told prosecutors that he was a jihadi at an arraignment hearing held in January. The attack was carried on because of the United States’ support for Israel.

The indictment is a far cry from Bragg’s handling of another attack that took place in May 2021, when a mob of anti-Israel assailants chased down and beat a yarmulke-wearing Jewish man, giving him a concussion. Bragg gave Waseem Alwawdeh a light plea deal, limiting him to six months in prison.

“If I could do it again, I would do it again,” Awawdeh claimed, According to The New York Sun. “I have no problem doing it again.” In the beginning, he faced seven years in prison.

Prosecutors were told by Bickford that he intended to attack NYPD officers, as all state officials are his targets “cannot be proper Muslims because the United States government supports Israel.” Bragg’s office requested he be held without bail afterward, arguing that he posed “a significant flight risk.”

The Wells, Maine, native left his family’s home in December, later telling prosecutors he had plans to travel to the Middle East by way of Miami before he “decided to come to New York first in order to kill people and carry out jihad.”

His diary, which he kept, was found by