An NYPD officer was struck in the head with a meat cleaver after responding to calls of a man running with a butcher’s knife and waving it in the air near Madison Square Garden today.
Several officers responded and surrounded the man, ordering him to drop the weapon.
BREAKING: @PIX11News viewer sent us 2 photos of EMS working on suspect, cop in clever attack https://t.co/17ZVFhVtRT pic.twitter.com/A1FsGwKEeT
— Myles Miller (@MylesMill) September 15, 2016
When one of the officers tried to disarm the man, he struck the officer, leaving hime with a deep wound, according to the NY Daily News.
Once the officer was gashed, several officers fired on the suspect, hitting him five or six times according to witnesses.
Another officer suffered a graze wound to the back during the incident.
The suspect, identified as Akram Joudeh by several local media outlets, was apparently upset over his car being booted.
Both officers and the suspect were rushed to a local hospital for treatment.
We will update this story when the condition of the officers and suspect are known.
Liberals just love those terrorist muzzies. Liberals will say he only had a knife and shouldn’t have been shot. I hope the pos dies!
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