No evidence man who attacked Philly cop part of organized terror cell

Comey’s comments at a Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in Pittsburgh and reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, were confirmed to Reuters by an FBI spokesman.

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday the agency is investigating whether the suspect, Edward Archer, worked with or was inspired by the terrorist group.

Officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, survived after being hit three times in the left arm by the gunman, who fired 11 rounds in the close-range attack.

Philadelphia police have said Archer pledged allegiance to the militant group before allegedly opening fire on police officer Jesse Hartnett in his patrol auto last Thursday night. He also didn’t say how Archer became “radicalized”.

Toomey said he wasn’t told of any eminent threat however against law enforcement nor the public. In the video, a man is seen firing up to 13 times at a police cruiser as he runs up to the vehicle – at one point firing into the cruiser while his arm is all the way inside the driver’s side window.

“I’m bleeding heavily!” Hartnett shouted into his police radio. On Facebook, Toomey said he was bringing two patches and two challenge coins from the United States Capitol Police and from the security detail of the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Philadelphia police remain on high alert in the wake of the attack and investigation. Investigators have said that so far, there’s no indication Archer was consuming jihadist propaganda, and that trips he took to Egypt and Saudi Arabia have not been linked with terrorist activity.

Archer is charged with attempted murder but hasn’t entered a plea. His mother says he had been hearing voices.

“They are crowd-sourcing terrorism, using Twitter and other forms of social media to try to motivate anybody” to conduct an attack, he was quoted as saying.

Probers have yet to come up with any direct link involving Archer in any kind of conspiracy or acting in a group.