Michigan Airport Stabbing: Officer Attacked in Possible Terror Incident
Source: NBC
by Tom Winter, Andrew Blankstein and Kalhan Rosenblatt
An officer for Bishop International Airport was stabbed Wednesday in a possible terror-related incident in Flint, Michigan, sources told NBC News.
The attacker allegedly shouted "Allahu akbar" before stabbing Lieutenant Jeff Neville, who was bleeding from the neck, sources and witnesses at Bishop International Airport said.
Neville is a member of the airport's Department of Public Safety and a retired Genesee County Sheriffs Department lieutenant.
Law enforcement officials said the suspect is from Quebec and has a Canadian passport.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-stabbed-possible-terror-incident-michigan-airport-n775131
Shell_Seas
(3,333 posts)The attacker randomly walked up to officer shouted "Allahu akbar" and then stabbed him? Or was there some type of altercation previous to that?
Leith
(7,809 posts)I'm so tired of hearing bad news from my hometown. I sincerely hope that Lt. Neville recovers quickly and completely.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)it's really getting old LOL
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)"Alla FUBAR" seems more apropos.
Or so I would describe any deity who likes this kind of thing in his or her name.
christx30
(6,241 posts)yelling "Allahu akbar" in public is going to be interpreted as "it's ok to shoot me now. Center mass, please. Thank you."
B2G
(9,766 posts)run them over with a truck or blow yourself up.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)But this is getting F---g old, fast.
Yesterday, Paris and Brussels? Or was that the day before? Today, Flint.
The way to make normal Muslims (and everyone else) safe is to aggressively target the radicals.
And step one is understanding that Wahhabi Sharia is not a religion. It's a violent political organization that falsely cloaks itself as Muslim.
It's no different than being a member of the Nazi Party.
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)Flint airport police officer in critical condition after stabbing
Allison Gross and Robert Allen , Detroit Free Press Published 11:05 a.m. ET June 21, 2017 | Updated 0 minutes ago
An airport police officer is in critical condition and Bishop International Airport in Flint has been evacuated after a reported stabbing Wednesday morning.
The FBI is investigating, and Michigan State Police posted a tweet saying, "Please keep the officer in your prayers."
According to the airport's Facebook page: "An airport police officer has been injured. All passengers are safe and are being evacuated at this time."
Ken Brown told The Flint Journal he was dropping off his daughter at the airport and saw the officer bleeding from his neck. He says he saw a man detained by police and a knife on the ground.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/06/21/flint-airport-bishop-police-stabbed-neck/415607001/
muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)Neville is in stable condition after initially having been reported in critical condition after the attack.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/06/detroit_and_flint_rank_no_1_an.html
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)Blame some guy just for yelling "Allahu Akbar".
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)If he'd shouted "praise jesus", I'd consider that equally relevant.
ileus
(15,396 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Did he apologize after the stabbing?
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)and expensive health care
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)FLINT, MI -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it is too soon to call the knife attack on a police officer at Bishop Airport today an act of terrorism.
"We are aware of reports that the attacker made statements immediately prior to or while attacking the officer, but it is too early to determine the nature of these alleged statements or whether or not this was an act of terrorism," the FBI said in a statement.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/06/fbi_too_early_to_say_knife_att.html
christx30
(6,241 posts)US officials identified the suspected assailant, who is in custody and cooperating with investigators, as a 49-year-old Canadian resident from Quebec named Amor Ftouhi.
Sauce: http://m.france24.com/en/20170622-michigan-airport-stabbing-act-terrorism-says-fbi
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Dylann Roof was so worried he would have been labeled mentally ill, I guess he didn't realize all he needed to do was shout that when he was shooting people up.
christx30
(6,241 posts)If he had stabbed the officer while yelling "I told you to stay away from my wife", then it's just an attempted murder, and not terrorism. The idiot thinks he's a soldier for Allah or something. He should be put into a cage until he dies of natural causes.
And there are tons of articles of why Dylann Roof wasn't charged under terrorism laws.
Aristus
(66,369 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)traveled to Mexico to get to the west, and had never heard of a ladder, then the ban and wall would have worked.
If any of those aren't the case, then the ban and the wall would have been hopelessly unable to stop this attack.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)If the attacker is a Muslim, it's terrorism. If the attacker is an African American, it's a race war. If the attacker is a white guy, it's just another day in America.