Darryn Frost, the hero who used a narwhal tusk to fight off the London Bridge terrorist, accused President Trump of “feeding terror” with his “belligerent” Middle East policy, and warned it will breed more murderous attackers like the one he faced.
Frost, 38, in his first interview since he helped to tackle and hold down Usman Khan as the convicted terrorist went on a rampage at a criminal justice conference on Nov. 29, killing two and injuring three others, said the president’s decision to kill Iranian General Qassem Soleimani would cost lives.
“The next generation of terrorists will rise as a direct result of these actions and we must condemn them now,” Frost told the Guardian.
The man hailed as a hero, a civil servant who works for HM Prisons and Probation, also said he had been racked with survivor’s guilt in the weeks since he stabbed Khan through the abdomen and pinned him to the ground with the ornamental tusk that he grabbed off a wall at the historical building where the conference was held.
Frost has launched a campaign called “Extinguish Hate,” to convene support for kindness as an antidote to extremism in memory of the two colleagues killed, Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23.
“Their deaths have created a drive within me to challenge hatred and intolerance,” he said. “What feeds terror is actions like this where people in power act as judge, jury and executioner across borders and jurisdictions. Who is Trump that he can have this sort of impact across all our lives? Khan may have come from this country so people may not understand why he was extreme. The people who influenced him are likely to be the people who have lost loved ones because of our actions abroad.”
Recalling the fight with Khan on the London Bridge, Frost said, “I was really upset at this loss of life. People will see me as a terrorist sympathizer and I am not. I sympathize with the loss of life and where it could have been prevented.”