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On
April 14, 1972, at 1142 hours, a call for "officer in
distress" came in from a person claiming to be "Detective
Thomas" at the Muhammed Mosque #7 102 West 116th Street New
York.
Responding police officers
were pushed out of the mosque by muslim men and the doors were
locked. Two officers remained trapped inside on the ground level and
were attacked by over 16 men who overpowered them, forced them to the
ground and took their weapons. Officer Phillip Cardillo was
shot one time and mortally wounded.. The other officer was knocked
unconscious, and his weapons were never found. As other police
officer tried to make entry into the locked mosque, they looked thru
the window and saw both officers laying prone while two large groups
of muslim men beat and kicked the officers.
Here
are the facts:
- A year
after the shooting, a secret internal parallel NYPD investigation was
conducted. The "Report and Analysis of the Muslim Mosque Incident of
April 14, 1972" was referred to as the "Blue Book."
- The
mosque doors, usually bolted shut and manned by muslims at the
mosque were unlocked and unguarded until responding police
officers were inside, at which time they were locked.
- Some of
the men involved in the attack ran into the basement, where they
were frisked and detained. According to the Blue Book,
they "refused to answer questions and refused to identify
themselves."
- Reports
from officers stated "the situation in the street
deteriorated ... to the point of potential riot" because
officers were inside the mosque.
- During
the investigation immediately after the shooting/attack, mosque
leader Louis Farrakhan and U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel
worked a deal with the NYPD commanding officers. Police
agreed to leave the mosque, leaving behind the crime scene, blood and
ballistics evidence, and 16 suspects while Farrakhan and Rangel promised
to
deliver the suspects to a local police station that afternoon.
Suspects were not delivered and the murder weapon was never
found.
- Lewis
Dupree was eventually arrested for Officer Cardillo's murder.
However, the lack of evidence hindered the prosecution. Dupree's
first trial resulted in a hung jury. In a second trial, Dupree,
who now uses the name Khalid Elamin Ali, was acquitted. The lead
prosecutor in both trial never saw the Blue Book which contained
leads, witness names and ballistics reports.
- An FBI
report revealed the Bureau refused to give NYPD access to FBI
informants who might have knowledge of this matter saying that
doing so might, "adversely affect the national defense interest of
the US."
- The
mayor and police commissioner did not attend Officer Phil
Cardillo's funeral. This was a sad day when a cop killed
in the line of duty protecting New York city did not have the
support of his commanding officers.
This
incident raises serious questions which have never been answered:
- Why did
someone from the mosque ambush a police officer? Who lured
police to the second floor of the mosque? Who ordered the guards
off the doors of the mosque and left them unlocked and
unguarded? Was it someone with knowledge of police procedure?
- Does the
FBI have any information pertaining to the shooting of Officer
Cardillo?"
- Did the
upper ranks of the New York Police Department, FBI, a US
representative and members of the Islamic community work
together to impede the murder investigation of a NYPD police
officer?
- Why were
detectives on the initial investigation not aware of the Blue
Book? Why did NYPD conduct a parallel investigation?
The funeral of NYPD Officer Phillip Cardillo
Over 40 years later, some
things remain the same. Members of Congress are still
protecting criminals and jihadis in our communities, and some even
advocate for the jihadis. Police are not allowed to be
aggressive and harsh in their pursuit of jihadis which emboldens and
encourages the jihadis to fight harder as the years go on - per
sharia law.
Coda
An
attempt to name a small street in Harlem after Officer Cardillo was
halted in 2013 when the local community board ruled the police must
first get permission from two local mosques to do so, including the
mosque where Officer Cardillo was shot. In an angry letter to Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly, Cardillo's son Todd, called the decision
"a slap in the face to me and my family."
The failure of local, state,
and federal leaders to understand the threat and aggressively go
after that threat costs lives. It costs lives of our military
in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it did in New York in April of 1972.
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