“The drama began Tuesday when an anonymous tipster called the 32nd Precinct detective squad, claiming Shelton was plotting to shoot a cop. Someone later called the Philadelphia police and said the same thing. One of the callers said Shelton pledged his allegiance to ISIS.”
“Ex-con turns himself in after allegedly threatening to kill NYPD and Philadelphia cops; pledged allegiance to ISIS,” by Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy, Chelsia Rose Marcius, and Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, January 20, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The NYPD put the entire force on alert Wednesday morning after an ex-con who allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS threatened to kill a cop.
But Marcus Shelton, 36, surrendered hours later — unarmed and without incident — before he was carted off to court to answer two open warrants on parole violations. He hadn’t been charged with making a threat by Wednesday night.
“There is no belief that he was a threat to anyone,” a high-ranking police source with knowledge of the incident told the Daily News….
The man’s father said Shelton’s brother, Jason Paige, who died about a decade ago, was a Marine and a city cop. It was inconceivable that he could hurt a police officer, the dad said.
“I’m glad he turned himself in and that he’s cooperating with authorities,” Jason Paige, 72, told The Daily News at his home in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.
Paige, who shares the same name as the son who died, said the siblings were very close.
“They got along very well,” he said. “It just doesn’t add up.”
The drama began Tuesday when an anonymous tipster called the 32nd Precinct detective squad, claiming Shelton was plotting to shoot a cop. Someone later called the Philadelphia police and said the same thing. One of the callers said Shelton pledged his allegiance to ISIS.
Shelton was identified by name in both calls, but it’s not clear if the calls were made by the same person, sources said.
Philadelphia cops traced the call to an address in upper Manhattan and notified the NYPD.
The NYPD took it seriously, issuing an Officer Safety Alert across the department, according to Thomas Galati, chief of the NYPD Intelligence Bureau.
“We are taking it serious based on what happened in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago,” Galati said of the threat.
Cops in Philadelphia received a call threatening an officer, and discovered it came from a Manhattan address. The NYPD then recieved [sic] a similar call, and sent out an Officer Safety Alert….
“Be mindful that any call, regardless of how insignificant it appears to be, may be a set up,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said.
Cops from the warrant squad paid a visit to Shelton’s dad Wednesday morning. The dad said he never heard Shelton mention ISIS….

Angemon says
Terror was spread to the hearts of the unbelievers.
Huck Folder says
“There is no belief that he was a threat to anyone,” [of us protected chiefs] a high-ranking police source with knowledge of the incident told the Daily News….”
As for the rest of you front line squaddies, watch your OWN backs; your chiefs, mayors, and Communist-in-Chief (and his MB buddies) are all about watching THEIR own backs. If one of you goes down, hear the crocodile tears in the first sentence. Followed by the real meat of their ‘grief” – dire warnings of impending (always) and ‘misplaced’ BACKLASH.
“The man’s father said Shelton’s brother, Jason Paige, who died about a decade ago, was a Marine and a city cop. It was INCONCEIVABLE [yeah!] that he could hurt a police officer, the dad said.”
“The NYPD took it seriously, issuing an Officer Safety Alert across the department, [and feeling smug and satisfied about their great warning system] according to Thomas Galati, chief of the NYPD Intelligence Bureau.”
I wonder if the NYPDIB is allowed to use any of those pejorative words banned by obuMBoy, on orders from Valerie Jarrett: moslem, mohammedan, jihad(i)(ism)(ist), terrorist…?
I wonder if they’re allowed to surveil imams and mosques without permission from cair?
I wonder if ANYONE will EVER name the elephant in the room – islam.
No islam, no jihadis, no threats, no misplaced smugness…
Shane says
Yes, nowhere in that article is the religion of Islam mentioned! Very poor reporting if they knew that he is a Muslim. Why should a non-Muslim pledge alleigance to Islam? The left has been telling Blacks for a 100 years that America is a racist country and you need to revolt to free your people. Liberals keep telling Blacks that all America’s institutions are racist. Hatred for cops and for Whites is rampant in Black urban communities. In prison, many Black man convert to Islam as they get protection from the Muslims and because they hate America, Whites, and cops. Converting to Islam gives Black criminals sanction to kill, rob, and rape 98% of Americans.
Wellington says
Always more appalling when it’s a black who decides to adhere to Islam (and especially when attempting to fulfill Islam’s lethal and freedom-crushing imperatives) since the record on black slavery is so much worse per the Islamic world than that of the Western world, which latter world recognized the great wrong that African slavery and all of slavery is, and which world also took numerous measures to end it, all the while the Islamic world continued to engage in it, and which Western world has also profusely apologized for, contra the Islamic world which has NEVER apologized for engaging in this malevolent institution even though its dirty hands in this regard are so much dirtier than that of the Western world.
Yes, show me ANY Muslim and I will show you a confused human being, but show me a black Muslim and I will show you an extra confused human being, ditto for all female Muslims. The last two groups of the human species who should defend, let alone embrace, Islam are blacks and women, thus making a black female Muslim just about the most confused human being who has ever lived. Yep, a tragic (and stupid) double whammy if ever there were one.
Kepha says
Well, well, Wellington, what do we in the USofA expect when we make the Otterboggerfee of Malcolm X a classic and name streets after him? We tell generations of schoolkids that Islam gives young men “dignity and purpose”, present it as a agent of “tolerance” and “enlightenment”, and other such claptrap. It was a number of years ago, when the staff at my school was getting a rundown on gang activity (a big problem where I work), that a Jamaican-born police officer, after giving the low-down on the Maras Salvatruchas, mentioned with an exasperated roll of the eyes “our fine, upstanding young Muslim men…”
It strikes me that the rise in “Islamophobia” has next to nothing to do with education efforts by our small, anti-jihadi movement, and everything to do with how Muslims behave once they become an unavoidable street presence. The trouble with that is, that many of our cowardly, willfully ignorant sheeple will probably become Muslim due to the intimidation factor.
Wellington says
Well, Kepha, all religions work upon the fear element in order to compel belief——-you’re going to come back as a cabbage or a cow, or you will burn in Hell for eternity, or you are going to be obliterated, etc., for not accepting this, that and the other thing, but no religion comes anywhere close to Islam respecting how fear is used to insure belief (including in this world and not just the supposed next one).
I might add, being the agnostic that I am, that I find this use of fear by virtually all religions highly shameful because it can often cut off free inquiry lest getting things honestly wrong still imperils a person. Jesus, who is an infinitely preferable religious teacher to Mohammed, I readily concede, nevertheless used fear time and time again (e.g., Mark 16:16) to insure belief. Shame on him for this. It should be accepted by a deity that might exist that doubting things that are extraordinary (e.g., a Jewish carpenter was actually God personally present on earth for some third of a century and got himself resurrected to redeem iniquitous mankind of its sins, never mind no one, not one person, was around to witness this glorious resurrection and that rational alternative explanations for this “event” could easily be proffered——-examples being that the body was not placed in the tomb in the first place, there was a secret passage to the tomb, the Roman guards were bribed, the Roman guards were drunk (or both), and on and on in this way that doesn’t require a Sherlock Homes to decipher what really wet on) is quite human and should not carry any punishment for not being correct about such a “thing.”
This is all wrong, Kepha, even by Jesus, let alone that miscreant Mohammed. It is, as I have long held, the single worst factor about the entire religious approach to understanding one’s existence and all the cosmos. People who sincerely come to the wrong conclusions about what philosophy and science have determined are not threatened with eternal punishment (though modern leftism has definitely moved in this direction as it has consistently and relentlessly bastardized the true scientific approach, AGW being the sterling example of this error), but religion does this indefensible deed time and time again. It’s all part of the reason why I am not only not religious, but refuse to be religious even if a particular religion (e.g., Christianity) is in accord with universal truth.
Kepha, this is, as I have already expounded, the single greatest weakness, the single greatest objection, to all of religion. Yes, it’s the fear element that is a total turn-off to me. Shame on all religion for this. Like Prometheus defying Zeus, I defy any religion because of this——-even if the religion is true. You see, my Christian friend, I am not only ignorant but invincibly ignorant.
Your turn, pal.
Champ ✞ says
Wellington wrote:
Well, Kepha, all religions work upon the fear element in order to compel belief——-you’re going to come back as a cabbage or a cow, or you will burn in Hell for eternity, or you are going to be obliterated, etc., for not accepting this, that and the other thing, but no religion comes anywhere close to Islam respecting how fear is used to insure belief (including in this world and not just the supposed next one).
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Wellington, I can certainly understand why you would state that …
That said, this isn’t what drew me to Jesus Christ. I was drawn to Jesus Christ by His overwhelming *love* for me personally, and I *experience* His love every single day. I am NOT a “religious person”, and I’ve never been fond of religious practices or rules just for the sake of being “religious” — not at all! I attend church, read the Bible, and share my faith, out of a love and devotion to Jesus Christ. I am wholly devoted to the One who FIRST loved me. That’s what motivated *me* to become a born-again Christian.
Wellington says
That’s all well and good, Champ, all that you say, (and thank you again for responding to, and having patience with, an agnostic like me), but what of a person who, on completely honest, non-bitter, grounds, comes to the conclusion that the Christian “story” is no more in accord with ultimate reality than the Islamic “story,” even though the latter is a menace to liberty and equality under the law on this earth as the Christian “story” simply is not.? Yes, what about such a person?
Yes, what if one chooses honestly but wrongly about Jesus, which means, as an example, that your take on Jesus is correct and mine is wrong. What happens to such people?
I have profound trouble, truly profound trouble, my Christian friend, with whom I agree on so much, and certainly about the iniquity which is Islam (and I have never, nor will I ever, call Christianity iniquitous), with still the threats that exist throughout the New Testament, in the Gospels, in Acts, in Paul’s epistles, et al., that if one does not accept Jesus as Christians hold him out to be, then much travail and punishment will follow accordingly.
Again I state that philosophy and science in their very make-up, their very composition, do not operate this way, with fear being held in reserve should one not accept this, that or the other proposition. But religion, virtually all religion, does. As I see it, this is the SINGLE greatest weakness of religion, bar none.
Of course, Islam is unique among the major faiths of the world in that enshrined in its theological blueprint is carte blanche permission to its believers to use force in this world to insure and spread religious belief, contra every other major religion’s blueprint. Yes, every religion threatens about the next world should someone not believe or do rightly, but only Islam threatens also in this world that its own believers (not only their deity but believers too since even other religions assert that their deity or deities in this world might exact punishment but with no instruction for believers to do so) have the right to use force, to employ violence, to insure adherence to its theological propositions. And herein, I would maintain, resides the true menace to all mankind which Islam surely is——–and the root of its totalitarianism.. After all, if Muslims believed in all the rot they do but forever abjured force to insure its acceptance, Islam would not be a problem really much at all and Jihad Watch would almost certainly have never come into existence in the first place. Oh yeah, it’s that “force element” in this world that makes Islam so awful. All religions employ it for the next world or life, but only Islam employs it twice over———and this is the root of the “problem” where the monstrosity of Islam is concerned.
Always good to read your comments, Champ. And thank you again for taking the time to communicate to someone like me. Take care, pal.
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