The NYPD is reportedly investigating whether Islamic extremism played a role in Thursday's hatchet attack on city cops.

Officers shot and killed a man identified as Zale Thompson, 32, of Queens, who fractured the skull of Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, at about 2 p.m. in the Jamaica section of Queens. Videotape and witness accounts apparently showed Thompson intentionally targeting four rookie officers. Thompson was seen minutes before the attack pulling a hatchet from his backpack and then began attacking the officers, slicing a second cop on the arm before he was fatally shot, the New York Post reports.

"There's nothing we know at this time that would indicate that [Islamic terrorism] is the case," NYPD Commissioner William Bratton told reporters during a press conference at Jamaica Hospital. "That's what the investigation will attempt to determine."

Healey remains in critical but stable condition, police said Friday. A 29-year-old woman walking nearby was struck in the back by a stray police bullet and remains in stable condition, police sources told the Post. The second injured cop, Officer Joseph Meeker, is in stable condition.

Thompson, whose Facebook page includes a passage from the Koran and a photograph of a masked militant, is being investigated for possible terrorist connections.

"There are suspected terror ties," one source told the newspaper.

Thompson, who served in the Navy from February 2001 to August 2003, allegedly called for a revolution on American soil on his Facebook page, but the messages were no longer visible early Friday.

"America's military is strong abroad, but they have never faced an internal mass revolt,�� Thompson posted on the social media site. “They are weaker at home. We are scattered and decentralized, we can use this as an advantage. They are centralized and strong, which can be exploited as a weakness. Think of a swarm of bees (negroes) that surround and attack an elephant (America) to death."

The suspect also called for guerilla warfare.

"Helicopters, big military will be useless on their own soil, another post read. ��They will not be able to defeat our people if we use guerilla warfare. Attack their weak flanks ... If you get wounded who cares. If you die who cares. Eventually they will surrender and then the war will be over."

Thompson was a "very educated" proponent of "black power" and a graduate of the College of New Rochelle in Harlem, one classmate who asked not to be identified told the Post.

"He always spoke positively," the source said.

But former neighbors at Thompson's Brooklyn address said he had become "weird" and argumentative in recent months before moving to Jamaica earlier this year.

While in the Navy, Thompson served as a builder constructor and was assigned to units based in Port Hueneme, Calif. He was awarded several citations, including the National Defense Service Ribbon and the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Navy officials confirmed Friday.

Sources told the Post that Thompson held the hatchet in two hands like a baseball bat — and swung three times. The first swing broke the cop's arm, while the second was a miss. The third struck Healey in the back of the head, sources said.

"The cops yelled, 'Drop it!'" witness Larry Bethune told the newspaper. "He raised his arm up high and brought it straight down on the cop's head."

Another witness recalled seeing the young officer's horrific head injury as Thompson was apprehended.

"He looked like he couldn't move, and blood was gushing out of his head," Kelli Reddica said. "Blood just drenched the side of his face."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/24/ax-attack-terror-connection/

Time to start holding Barry accountable. He is responsible for the rise of ISIS and their now dominance in the terror market. This kind of thing didn't happen under President Bush's watch after 9/11 because these $hitheads knew what would happen. They would be doing HARD TIME at Gitmo with frequents baths and other neat enhanced interrogation techniques. They were scared $hitless, now they have more rights then we do.

What are these additional rights that members of ISIS have here in the U.S. that are denied to you and I and all the other U.S. citizens?

Well I see that the scare tactics have worked beyond even the most vivid imagination. Now we see terrorist under every rock and in every action. Say, isn't the Patriot Act up for renewal, oh yes, of course it is. Wonder what new enhancements are in store to insure secutity? Will they require additional loss of freedoms?

I wonder if the policemen that shot him were white?

They are protected. We have to arrest them and give them full rights. Under Barry, being an American Citizen we can be put on a kill list.

I dunno, but maybe they will start rioting in NYC now too. The poor innocent man shot and killed by 4 police officers as he ran away with his hands up.......

sure hope not!
That would be a Travesty of Justice!

Citation to a legitimate source for this new law that says terrorists who are NOT American citizens will be protected and American citizens are to be put on a kill list?

Yay!
Another idiot who won't be able to breed more stupidity into the world.

Let's see, they are moving the 9/11 planners into the court system instead of the military tribunal, and Anwar al-Awlaki who was number ONE on our kill list (no effort to capture was EVER made) and who was an AMERICAN CITIZEN born and raised.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/02/11/obamas-expanding-kill-list-paul-craig-roberts/

What? They are going to stop the Looney Libbo's from breeding?!? AWESOME!

We should give ISIS a good dose of Ebola.