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Attack on 3
NYPD Bickford
Indicted for
Terrorism Now
Trial Set for
18 March 2024
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 13 –
Trevor
Bickford, on
charges of
attacking
three police
officers in
NYC's Times
Square on New
Years Eve with
a machete, was
presented
shackled in
Federal court
in Manhattan
on February 6,
2023 Inner
City Press was
there.
U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Ona T.
Wang read
Bickford the
charges, then
asked about
bail or
detention.
Not
surprisingly,
Bickford
through his
Federal
Defender
consented to
detention -
"without
prejudice to
making an
application"
for bail
later.
Bickford
appeared
medicated, but
spoke clearly
when he said
"Yes" to if
he's seen the
complaint
against him.
His feet and
hands were
chained,
making it
difficult to
raise his hand
to swear to
his financial
affidavit.
Bickford is 19
years old and
according to
the complaint
began reading
the Koran in
May 2022, and
tried to fly
to Jordan to
join the jihad
- in
Afghanistan or
closer Syria -
in December.
He
could not get
on the flight
and, the
complaint
says, headed
to Times
Square on New
Years Eve.
On
June 6, 2023,
Bickford was
brought by
three US
Marshals
before the
assigned
District
Judge, P.
Kevin Castel.
His Federal
Defender said
she wants to
move to
dismiss Count
1 as
duplicative
(Counts 2-4
are about each
police
officer).
Judge Castel
gave her until
July 13 to
make the
motion, and
set a
September 13
next
appearance.
Afterward
Bickford asked
if he would be
back in court
on July 13. He
looked if
anything
younger than
19. In the
MDC, he cannot
read PDFs, his
lawyer said.
On
September 13,
Judge Castel
heard
arguments on
but deferred
decision on
the defense
motion to
strike either
Count 1, or
Counts 2-4.
Inner City
Press was
there, thread:
Judge
Castel asking
who the
intended
victims were -
military-aged
men working
for the
government?
AUSA cites
Timothy
McVeigh case.
AUSA:
He psyched
himself up by
watching Al
Qaeda
propadanda
video. Then he
went to Times
Square.
Judge:
What about the
multiplicity
doctrine, or
double
jeopardy? That
you can charge
Counts 1, 2
and 3, or
Court 1, but
not both?
AUSA:
We could carve
out Officers
1-3
Courtroom
note: Bickford
in MDC tan is
motionless as
his lawyers
whisper in
front of him.
Judge: I'll
take the
motion under
advisement.
Trial now set
for March 18,
2024.
Inner City
Press will
stay on the
case.
It
is US v.
Bickford,
23-cr-91
(Castel)
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