D.C. Axe Attack (The Latest)

UPDATE TO THIS EARLIER POST HERE AT IBA...

From WTOP:

...[D.C. Police Chief] Lanier stressed that police had no evidence linking the attack to any broader plot or to last week's attack of a group of New York City police officers by a hatchet-wielding man, which New York's police commissioner called an act of terrorism.

Lanier said police weren't ruling out that possibility....

"A lot of these radical organizations, terrorist organizations are very vocal about targeting first responders. It's no secret. It's not new. But it certainly has ramped up," Lanier said. "We're on extremely high alert."

The axe wielder is still on the loose and remains unidentified.

BTW, there is a Salafist masjid five short blocks from the location of the axe attack on October 31, 2014. Just sayin'.

Where/Who is this freelance photographer who CONVENIENTLY distracted the NYC Police officers before the Axe Attack? - UPDATE

Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik is the Muslim name of Zale Thompson, the NYPD hatchet attacker in Queens

ChicagoTribune: New York officer critically wounded in hatchet attack 

"A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said.
The officers were on foot patrol when they were asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture on a Queens street at about 2 p.m., a New York Police Department spokesman said.lRelated New York City hatchet attack leaves officer in critical condition
Suddenly a man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head, the spokesman said."

Where/Who is this freelance photographer who CONVENIENTLY distracted these officers for this attack?

UPDATE ---

This incident involved FOUR 'rookie' cops and all four were distracted too easily.

According to the "Gothamist", A hatchet-wielding man was shot dead and four NYPD officers, plus a bystander, are injured after police responded to an assault in Jamaica Queens. 

Was there really an assault? 

Was this a coordinated set up? 

Is it unusual to have 4 rookies respond to the same call?