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Cop-Chopping Meat-Cleaver Maniac Akram Joudeh Was Also Arrested For Pacing Outside A Synagogue With Knives

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Warning: #NotAllMuslims are responsible for the events in the following post. The attack I’m about to discuss was the act of a lone wolf. It has no connection to anything that has ever happened, or ever will happen, in the history of the world.

Kerry Picket reports:

Police shot a man near Penn Station Thursday who wielded a meat cleaver at them.

Angry over his car that was booted, the man, identified by the New York Post as career criminal Akram Joudeh, started yelling and screaming at law enforcement officers, sources said.

At this point an off-duty detective stepped in to help and Joudeh allegedly swung the meat cleaver at the detective. The officers opened fire on the suspect.

So far, the motive for the attack seems to be the booting of Joudeh’s car. I seriously doubt that the following fact, found in paragraphs 31 and 32 of the NYDN’s story, has anything to do with it:

Joudeh was arrested for weapons possession in Brooklyn in July after cops found a pair of knives in his car.

He had been parked outside of a synagogue and was pacing back and forth. The charges were later dropped.

A few months ago, this man was arrested for pacing back and forth in front of a synagogue with knives in his car. Yesterday, he attacked some cops for booting his car.

What does one thing have to do with the other? I don’t want anybody to call me a racist, so I’ll just assume that back in July, Joudeh was thinking about converting to Judaism and was pacing back and forth as he worked up the nerve. Then the cops interrupted him before he could go through with it.

Why, for all we know, Joudeh might have attacked those cops for disrespecting Judaism. Can you prove that’s not what happened? Can you? Huh?

One of the officers, an off-duty detective, is in critical condition with a 6-inch gash from his temple to his jaw. Joudeh is in serious but stable condition.

I’ll let you decide which one you care about more.