Maine man sentenced to 27 years in prison in New Year's Eve machete attack near Times Square
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Trevor Bickford, the Maine man who used a machete to try to kill 3 police officers in a New Year's Eve terrorist attack near New York’s Times Square, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Bickford shouted "Allahu akbar" — the Arabic phrase for "God is great" — before striking the officers in the head with the machete and trying to grab an officer’s gun. One officer suffered a fractured skull.
The threat ended when Officer Michael Hanna shot Bickford in the shoulder. At a hospital, Bickford told authorities that he had studied radical Islamic ideology and decided to wage jihad against U.S. officials.
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