NYPD Responds to ISIS Times Square Video Footage

ISIS terrorists reportedly released a new propaganda video Wednesday warning all countries who’ve been bombing their strongholds in Syria that they will retaliate with attacks like the ones in Paris.

The new video reportedly re-upped an old montage — previously aired in an ISIS music video last spring — of a suicide bomber in front of Times Square.

“We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign,” the narrator of Wednesday’s video reportedly said, “that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France’s and by God, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington.”

The NYPD responded to the video Wednesday evening in a statement sent to Patch. Read it in full, below.

“We are aware of the newly-released ISIL video that mentions Times Square. While some of the video footage is not new, the video reaffirms the message that New York City remains a top terrorist target. While there is no current or specific threat to the City at this time, we will remain at a heightened state of vigilance and will continue to work with the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the entire intelligence community to keep the City of New York safe. In addition, we are continuing to deploy additional Critical Response Command (CRC) teams throughout the City, out of an abundance of caution.”

On Monday, NYC Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said he saw New York City as ISIS terrorists’ most likely target after Paris, seeing as the city is a symbol of “all that they hate.”

Bratton said he beefed up NYC’s counterterrorism forces with 500 new cops after the Paris attacks.