CREDIT: Dave Hosford via Flickr The New York Police Department (NYPD) is ramping up its social media monitoring after a man attacked four police officers with a hatchet last month. NYPD officials said the attacker Zale Thompson, 32, a former Navy man and Islam convert, was a homegrown terrorist acting alone. Police shot and killed Thompson during the October attack . In response to the incident, the NYPD said it will expand social network scanning efforts of its Operation Sentry Program created after 9/11 to combat the rising prominence of extremist movements online. Police say jihadist groups are luring...
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