Police probe man’s claim he shot officer in Allah’s name

Last year, he was sentenced to nine to 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of carrying an unlicensed gun and assault.

“That act of that bad man in nearly assassinating our police officer was an individual act of criminality”, Kenney said.

The tipster, police say, claimed that Archer was a part of a group of four in Philadelphia, and not the most radical within it. Officers will temporarily work in pairs until the threat has been assessed.

The “operational alert” warns officers “to have greater awareness of their surroundings in regard to the events that occurred in Philadelphia“, said Dan Keashen, a spokesman for the county force.

Philadelphia Police have released information regarding an assault on a Philadelphia Police Officer that occurred on Saturday night at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Clark said: “He just kept on echoing those sentiments and he wouldn’t give us anything more than that”.

Authorities said they were astonished Hartnett survived. After giving chase, the man was arrested and taken to jail, where he confessed to shooting the officer “in the name of Islam“.

He is also charged with several other crimes and is being held on remand. Police Commissioner Richard Ross said Archer told investigators he believed police enforced laws counter to the Quran.

Police say Archer ran up to Hartnett’s police vehicle and fired 13 shots, hitting the officer three times in an arm.

According to police detectives, Archer confessed to acting in the name of Islam and said that he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS), the right-wing fundamentalist movement in Iraq and Syria, and that police actions were contrary to the Koran, the primary Islamic religious text.

The alleged assailant was armed with a 9mm Glock 17 that was reported stolen from the home of a police officer in 2013.

“After watching the surveillance video and replaying the scenario over and over again in my head, you definitely shouldn’t be here right now”, Officer Castro wrote after standing next to the shot up squad auto where shell casings littered the street. When asked if the robe was considered Muslim garb, Ross said he didn’t know and didn’t think it mattered.

After apprehending Archer, a 30-year-old from Yeadon, Pa., police say that he told them he had carried out the attack in the name of Islam. Archer has a USA passport and was not on a watch list, the sources said.

Officers in Hartnett’s district were shaken, one of his colleagues said.

“There’s so many people who have been swayed to go in that direction”.

But he said he and his unit would not be deterred from doing their jobs.

“His will to live undoubtedly saved his life, and we are ever so thankful to God that he is here today because this could easily have been a police funeral”, Commissioner Ross said.

So unclear, in fact, that we may safely conclude that he is just lying, just retailing the exhausted rejoinder that all spineless politicians emit when jihadists murder people: “It has nothing to do with Islam“.