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| 2014-12-10 | ||
| A deranged man screaming "I want to kill the Jews!" invaded the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn early Tuesday and stabbed a yeshiva student in the head before he was shot dead by police. Levi Rosenblat was praying when Calvin Peters barged inside, whipped out a knife with a 5-inch blade and attacked him, witnesses said. "Levi had his hands up, trying to block the individual with his arms," Mendy Notik, 22, said. "He was saying. ‘I will kill you.' And after Levi, he went towards another young student and he said 'I will kill the Jews!'" Notik said Rosenblat was bloodied but somehow managed to escape. "He had blood on his shoulder, coming out from the side of his head and he was screaming, ‘He stabbed me! He stabbed me!'" Notik said of his friend. "He was in a panic." Summoned by other screaming yeshiva students, Officer Timothy Donohue, who is based at the Lubavitcher headquarters in Crown Heights, called for backup and raced inside to confront Peters. During a tense standoff, Donohue and two other cops ordered Peters to put down the bloody knife. Peters, a 49-year-old crook turned doting dad who suffered from bipolar disorder, complied at first, placing the knife on a table, police said. But for reasons nobody will ever understand, Peters suddenly grabbed it back and charged before he was shot in the stomach by Officer Roberto Pagan, police said. "He was going towards the officer," a 19-year-old Hasidic witness said. "His eyes were bulging." In startling video first posted by Israeli news site 0404, Donohue and the other officer could be heard repeatedly yelling at Peters to put down the weapon. Some of the students in the center could also be heard pleading with Peters to give up. Then a single shot rang out, hitting Peters and ending the drama on Eastern Parkway.
"Earlier today we all felt pretty good that he was stable, but now it seems they found something they didn't know this morning and he's in pretty serious shape," said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn). Rosenblat's mother was en route from Israel, sources said. They live south of Jerusalem in Jewish settlement Beitar Illit, located in the West Bank. "I've known him from when he was a child," Menahem Giladi, 22, said of Rosenblat. "He had a surgery and he is out now; he is not awake. Now we are waiting to see what happens; we hope and pray that he will get better." The attack on the nerve center of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement immediately drew comparisons to the slaughter at an Orthodox-Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem last month by a pair of meat cleaver-wielding Palestinians that left four rabbis dead. Rabbi Motti Seligson, a Lubavitcher spokesman, said multiple witnesses heard Peters screaming about killing Jews. "He was heard saying, ‘Kill the Jews,' or something to that effect," Seligson said. But Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said this appeared to be the work of a troubled man with a long rap sheet -- not a terrorist plot. "We are very, very confident it's not a terrorist-related act at this stage," Bratton said. "There's no indication that the subject ... had any affiliation with any terrorist organization."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 The other thing is that the insane are as prone to fashions as the rest of society. Just now killing Jews is in the news, so that's what will be understood by the patient as the driver, whereas someone in a religious Christian environment will feel driven by or for angels and devils, and not long ago it was all aliens and their probes or secret radio waves blocked by tinfoil hats. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-10 20:36 |
| #1 In some people the manic side of bipolar can be dangerous. One hopes they'll be put for a time in a psych ward until their medications are rebalanced, but sometimes they harm people first. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-10 20:30 |