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A day before the attack the [[NYPD]] issued a bulletin to other law enforcement agencies alerting them to a video call from Isis for individual attacks by extremists. The bulletin’s headline read “[[ISIS]]-Aligned Media Unit Releases Video Ahead of New Year’s Eve, Demanding Lone Offender Attacks.”

A day before the attack the [[NYPD]] issued a bulletin to other law enforcement agencies alerting them to a video call from Isis for individual attacks by extremists. The bulletin’s headline read “[[ISIS]]-Aligned Media Unit Releases Video Ahead of New Year’s Eve, Demanding Lone Offender Attacks.”

==Crisis and trauma==

==Crisis, trauma & the use by radical Islamists==

Bickford became singularly obsessed with Islamic militant activity after the death of his father. Bickford's father died of an overdose in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Madappa |first=Anushree |title=“I fear for you”: NYC machete attack suspect Trevor Bickford wrote a chilling manifesto |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-i-fear-you-nyc-machete-attack-suspect-trevor-bickford-wrote-chilling-manifesto |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=www.sportskeeda.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

Bickford became singularly obsessed with Islamic militant activity after the death of his father. Bickford's father died of an overdose in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Madappa |first=Anushree |title=“I fear for you”: NYC machete attack suspect Trevor Bickford wrote a chilling manifesto |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-i-fear-you-nyc-machete-attack-suspect-trevor-bickford-wrote-chilling-manifesto |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=www.sportskeeda.com |language=en-us}}</ref>