MOVE ALONG CITIZENS, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Meat cleaver madman, a Palestinian, was in Midtown to appeal deportation order before he sliced cop, the New York Daily News reports:
The meat cleaver maniac who hacked an off-duty cop is a Palestinian busted two months ago while screaming in Arabic outside a Brooklyn synagogue.
Suspect Akram Joudeh was only in New York for Thursday’s Midtown rampage because he was appealing a deportation notice — with a hearing set for Oct. 14, a high-ranking NYPD source told the Daily News.
Warning — cognitive dissonance ahead!
Cops found two knives inside Joudeh’s car after answering the July report of an erratic man on Shore Parkway in Brooklyn shout “Allahu Akbar!” — or “God is great” in Arabic.
But the source said investigations by the NYPD and FBI showed Joudeh, 32, was emotionally disturbed and not a terrorist threat.
Especially not in an election year. (See also: Minor Libyan unpleasantness on September 11, 2012.)
