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Is it terrorism?
Topic Started: Jan 8 2016, 09:57 AM (274 Views)
George K
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Suspect confesses to shooting cop - did it in the name of the religion which must not be named.

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Authorities say a Philadelphia police officer is recovering after he was shot several times during an ambush late Thursday night in West Philadelphia.

Philadelphia police commissioner Richard Ross says the officer was sitting in his patrol car around 11:30 p.m. at 60th and Spruce Streets when a gunman fired 13 shots through the driver’s side of the car.

Police are calling it an “attempted assassination.”

The officer — 33-year-old Jesse Hartnett — was struck three times in his arm, authorities say.

“Shots fired! I’m shot! I’m bleeding heavily!” Hartnett can be heard yelling on police radio.

Sources tell Eyewitness News the suspect has given a full confession, saying he did it in the name of Islam.

Sources also say the suspect’s full confession of the alleged attack was written down and recorded on video.

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I would have to assume so. What other criteria would you apply? There was no interaction other than random violence, correct?
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George K
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Copper
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Not all muslims are bad. If only there were more gun control laws!
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George K
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WSJ: Denying the Obvious

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It required only half a minute for the mayor of Philadelphia, Democrat Jim Kenney, to achieve national fame. On Friday, an already sensation-crowded day, it fell to the mayor to take part in the official pronouncements on the attempted murder of city police officer Jesse Hartnett, shot and severely wounded as he sat in his patrol car when a would-be assassin emptied his gun at him—13 shots in all.

Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr., appointed just three days earlier, delivered the details with noteworthy eloquence: The wounded officer, bleeding heavily from three wounds, one arm useless, had gotten himself out of the car, chased the attacker and shot him.

The drama of this recital needed no amplification, but there it was anyway: Clear security video images showed the assailant in his flowing white dishdasha—a robe favored by Muslim men—running toward the patrol car, shooting, sticking his hand in the window, and racing speedily away. Pictures too of the police officer lurching out of the car to give chase.

The wounded shooter, Commissioner Ross revealed, told police after his capture that he had mounted the attack in the name of Islam, that he believes that “the police defend laws that are contrary to Islam.” The man apparently wanted to talk only about his devotion to Islam.

Undaunted by anything he’d heard so far, Mayor Kenny then came to the microphone and declared: “In no way, shape or form does anybody in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam” had anything to do with the attack. “This was a criminal with a stolen gun.”

Mr. Kenny’s tone was fervent. Out of this event—involving a murderous assault on a police officer, and a heroic response by that officer—the mayor, awash in excitation, had divined what was, for him, the most important concern of this day. Namely, persuading citizens that this attack had nothing to do with allegiance to Islam.

It added to the surreal wonders of this scene that, immediately after the mayor’s pronouncement, the commander of the police department’s homicide unit calmly took the microphone. Capt. James Clark reported that the shooter (later identified as 30-year-old Edward Archer) had said, repeatedly, that he followed Allah, that he pledged allegiance to Islamic State and “That is the reason I did what I did.”

The mayor’s comments, so bizarre in their determined denial of the deluge of facts delivered by top police officials standing next to him, were, nonetheless, familiar enough. Americans have learned to expect, after every Islamist terror attack, lectures instructing them that such assaults should in no way be connected to Islamic faith of any kind.

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Copper
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So the mayor has tried to control the backlash.

Next we'll see how he does with the backlash from the backlash control.

Then it will be the next mayor's turn. And we become less and less sensitive about it and terrorism in the name of islam becomes an expected part of American life.

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TomK
HOLY CARP!!!
The problem is that it could be terrorism or it could be some copycat psycho or is it some criminal with a grudge against a particular cop that's using Islam as an excuse. Those are important distinctions that really needs to be ascertained.

We don't need a country that jumps at ever shooting as if we are under some sort of assault on our way of life--it will lead to a police state.
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Jan 12 2016, 07:40 AM

We don't need a country that jumps at ever shooting as if we are under some sort of assault on our way of life--it will lead to a police state.

I don't think we really have to worry about that.

Don't we have hundreds of shootings per day? Mr. Obama had some scary number about that.

We don't jump at every shooting.

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