Michele Bachmann Credits ISIS for Inspiring NYPD Shooting
When two NYPD officers were shot and killed last December by a man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley, there was much speculation that he had acted out in retaliation for the killings of unarmed black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner. There was less talk about him being inspired by Islamic extremism, but that is the link former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann made in an interview with Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg on Tuesday.
During a conversation about terrorist group Al-Shabab’s threats against the Mall of America in her home stage of Minnesota, Bachmann compared the situation to one that led to that shooting of NYPD officers last year.
After denouncing the Department of Homeland Security’s “absolutely apathetic, clueless response” to what she sees as a “credible threat” to the Mall of America, Bachmann pointed to other threats that came before it.
“Don’t forget, last fall, there was a call from terrorists for those who couldn’t come to the Islamic State in Syria to join the jihad to take jihadist actions locally and that’s when we saw that attacks in Canada, at the Parliament and also against government figures,” she said. “And we also saw two police officers innocently killed in Brooklyn. That was in direct response to a call to take action.”
While authorities did find anti-police messages on the shooter’s social media accounts, they did not present any evidence that he acted on behalf of ISIS.
Watch video below, via Newsmax:
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