Police Officer Attacked With Meat Cleaver Outside of New York’s Penn Station

By Jenn Jacques

In a city with strict gun control laws, we’ve got people hacking off police officer’s faces with a meat cleaver.

An “emotionally disturbed person” attacked an off-duty police officer with a knife with an 11″ blade officers described as a meat cleaver in midtown Manhattan Thursday night near Penn Station. One policeman suffered a head wound and two others were injured before police were able to secure the attacker.

The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Akram Joudeh, was reportedly angry over a parking boot he found on his car which he lives in, and witnesses say he tried to smash it off his vehicle with a hammer for over an hour.

“I saw him trying to break the boot,” said Tusar Paul, 24, who works across the street.

“He was doing it for about an hour. He was using a hammer. Other people were telling him to stop, that’s illegal.”

When officers approached Joudeh around 5 p.m., he pulled the cleaver from his waistband and started swinging, then ran toward Seventh Avenue, law enforcement sources said.

“You have a character running down the street waving a meat cleaver,” Police Chief Bill Bratton said.

Officers surrounded the man and made multiple requests that he drop …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms