The man who tried to kill NYPD officers with a long knife as part of a violent jihad on New Year’s Eve 2022 has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Trevor Bickford, 20, of Wells, Maine, had traveled to the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration for the expressed purpose of killing police and other government officials. Bickford pleaded guilty in January in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to three counts of attempted murder of officers and employees of the U.S. Government and persons assisting them and three counts of assault of officers and employees of the U.S. Government and persons assisting them. He had faced an aggregate sentence of 120 years in prison.
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