Others pushed bicycles in solidary with the victims, who were cut down on the long bike path that runs the length of Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront. The mourners included Harry Kassen, a student at the Manhattan school where one of the victims, Nicholas Cleves, 23, worked part-time. He was shot by a police officer after crashing the truck into a school bus and arraigned Wednesday on terrorism charges. Two mosques in Paterson, New Jersey, where Saipov lived, said they have been receiving threats since the attack. “It’s inconceivable that it would be fair to seek the death penalty when the president has expressed it twice in a tweet,” he said.

Source: National Post November 03, 2017 04:18 UTC