New York: More known about Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old radicalized youth who attacked police with a machete on New Year’s Eve in the middle of Times Square – Video

We know more about the 19-year-old boy who attacked police with a machete on New Year’s Eve in the middle of Times Square. The youth is believed to be a 19-year-old Islamic radical who specifically sought to target “a uniformed officer” or someone with a gun because he deemed them an “enemy of the state,” sources told The Post.

Trevor Bickford, of the city of Wells, Maine, reportedly traveled to New York on Saturday night to assault police officers.

Bickford “found religion” after his father’s overdose death in 2018 and radicalized just a month ago, sources say. He was already on an FBI terrorism watch list after his mother and aunt notified the agency of his extremist views, the sources said.

The attacker was a “lone wolf” who did not appear to be affiliated with any particular Islamic extremist group. He had apparently planned to travel to Afghanistan to join Islamist militants, the sources say, but ultimately made his way to New York on his own, arriving Dec. 29.