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Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) called 911 Thursday morning to report that a man had flashed a Palestinian flag while allegedly trying to run him off the road, screaming death threats and an antisemitic slur in what appears to be the latest example of rising political tensions.
Local police said Friday that an Ohio man, 36-year-old Feras S. Hamdan, voluntarily turned himself in, accompanied by a lawyer, on the evening of the reported incident.
“The deranged hatred in this country has gotten out of control,” Miller wrote in an X post Thursday.
Police in Rocky River, Ohio, a small city west of Cleveland, said that Hamdan is awaiting a court appearance. Miller has signed a motion for a criminal protection order against Hamdan.
The lawmaker, a Jewish conservative, told police that the man called him a “dirty Jew” and may have thrown a Palestinian flag out of his black Tesla during the incident, although a police report notes that no flag was found in the area.
Miller told a 911 dispatcher that the man threatened to “cut [his] throat and [his] daughter’s.”
“He flipped me off and cut me off, and I’m a little shaken right now,” Miller can be heard telling an operator in a copy of the call obtained by HuffPost. He added that he was armed, but was glad he did not use the weapon.
“He said he wanted to kill me and my daughter. Verbatim,” said Miller, whose nearly 2-year-old child was not in the vehicle at the time, he clarified in a video.
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The man allegedly said he knew where Miller lived. The lawmaker said he contacted U.S. Capitol Police in addition to local law enforcement, and the department is currently assisting with the investigation.
“This case is a prime example of the USCP’s stance towards threats against our elected officials,” Acting Chief Sean Gallagher said in a statement. “We will continue to have a zero-tolerance policy.”
The incident comes less than a week after a shooter’s deadly rampage against Democratic state lawmakers, which resulted in two deaths and two serious injuries.
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