Posted on 09/15/2016 4:57:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Midtown cop was whacked in the head with a butcher knife during a harrowing rush hour scene just steps from Madison Square Garden on Thursday.
Cops were called to W. 32nd St. between Seventh Ave. and Broadway just before 5 p.m. when several people saw the suspect running with a butcher’s knife in his hand, according to witnesses and initial reports.
“He was running down the street waving it,” said an MTA worker, who wished not to be named. “The cops were chasing him.”
The phalanx of officers finally surrounded the man near Penn Station and told him to drop the weapon, but he refused.
“Drop it! Drop it!” the cops screamed repeatedly, according to witnesses.
When one of the cops tried to knock the blade from his hand, he struck the officer with it, leaving him with a deep gash.
Then all hell broke loose, the witness said.
“They shot him up,” the witness said. “He was hit five or six times. He was laid up on the sidewalk. It looked like he was dead.”
A cop suffered a graze wound to the back during the fracas, officials said.
Both cops and the suspect were rushed to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.
Their conditions were not immediately known.
Police were investigating.
A UK report had it as a meat cleaver. Then again, the Brits have weird names for kitchen stuff.
He has more than a dozen prior arrests and was upset about a police boot that had been placed on his car, sources said.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-shoot-man-carrying-meat-cleaver-macys-york/story?id=42124840
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“The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Akram Joudeh of Queens, chased a traffic agent up Sixth Ave. with a large butcher knife before the bloody dust-up with cops”
Germany? France? No, welcome to 0dunga's Amerika!
To them anything larger than a butter knife is a meat cleaver. I remember reading where some homeowner had two pistols and a hundred rounds of ammunition and the press went all wild about this arsenal that was found.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and surmise it was a proselyte of the pedophile pirate and self-proclaimed “prophet”.
The media doesn’t know if it should frame this as cop kills black or drop it, if it’s a savage doing what savages do.
The idiot never learned not to bring a knife to a gunfight.
I hope the cops get commendations. These terrorist asshats need to be eliminated from any civilized society.
What kind of a name is “Akram Joudeh?”
The fellow that is spread on the pavement in one of those pictures just has shorts on and looks caucasian colored.
I take it he wasn’t out collecting for the Red Cross...
This appears to be his youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi12dgA3FjePEDCHg6fLPzw
Muslim per BBC
Another lone wolf
Another lone wolf
The ACLU will claim he didn’t speaka the English, and therfore the NYPD was at fault.
lawsuits - just wait.
That would seem to fit.
...and trucks, elevators, and about everything else.
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