The two men arrested in Saturday’s attempted bombing of a demonstration in New York City apparently didn’t bother invoking their right to remain silent.
In fact, they did everything but.
And a federal courtfilingMonday that included details picked up by police body cameras as 18-year-old Emir Balat was being taken to a precinct house makes it clear Islamic terrorism was behind the attempted atrocity.
“This isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet,” Balat said in a recorded moment, according to a prosecution complaint filed in the Southern District of New York.
“We take action! We take action!”
In Balat’s case, according to authorities, that “action” meant building and hurling explosive devices for the express purpose of murdering those who participated in a protest outside the Gracie Mansion home of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, thecity’s first Muslim mayor.
According to the complaint, the protest was called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer.”
That drew a counterprotest, “Run Nazis out of New York City,” the complaint said.
Shortly after noon, an individual now identified as Balat ignited and threw what was found to be a bomb at the anti-Islam protesters. He then got another device, also a bomb, from another man, now identified as his accomplice, 19-year-old Ibraham Kayumi, according to the complaint.
Balat lit that bomb and dropped it near police officers who were approaching. He then fled, but was arrested almost immediately.
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