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NYC bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov convicted on all counts in deadly 2017 attack

2023-01-27

[NYPOST] The ISIS-inspired terrorist who killed eight people by ramming into them with a truck on a West Side Highway bike path in 2017 was convicted on all counts by a Manhattan federal jury Thursday.

The panel’s conviction of Sayfullo Saipov,

...the Uzbeck lone wolf from Paterson, NJ, where he lived next to the Omar Mosque. He rented a truck for the purpose of running over as many people as possible while screaming “Allahu akhbar,” though he only managed to kill eight for ISIS and wound 12 more despite also crashing into a school bus. He came to the U.S. under President George HW Bush’s Diversity Immigrant Visa program in 2010, one of millions of Uzbeks to take advantage of the offer...

34, on 28 counts paves the way for the death penalty

phase of the trial to begin — when jurors will decide whether he should be put to death for the murderous rampage.

The panel of three women and nine men deliberated for about six hours before returning the verdict to Judge Vernon Broderick.

An easy one, unexpectedly.

The death penalty phase of the trial is tentatively scheduled to begin on Feb. 6.

Saipov, an immigrant originally from Uzbekistan, did not show emotion as Broderick’s courtroom deputy read the verdict aloud.

The terrorist, sporting a long, black beard and wearing a black suit, sat at the far end of the defense table, listening to a translation of the verdict that was beamed into headphones he was wearing.

Over the course of the two-week trial, victims who survived the attack described the horrific and ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful scene after Saipov, driving a rented flatbed truck, plowed into as many people as he could in Lower Manhattan on the afternoon of Halloween that year.

Family members described from the witness stand how they watched as loved ones struck by the madman were left bloodied on the bike path and ultimately died from their injuries.

One victim who was killed, Ann-Laure Decadt, had been riding a rented bike with family members who traveled from their native Belgium for a New York vacation to celebrate a number of milestone birthdays.

Posted by:Fred

#1 NY issuing a Death Sentence, I won't hold my breath.

But if the near impossible does happen, wrap him in a Pig Skin and bury him in an unmarked grave in a Pig Farm.

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-01-27 05:54

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