Ohio Republican says it was sunk by man with a Palestinian flag

The Rocky River police service Ohio identified and apprehended a suspect who would have led the Republican representative Max Miller and his family off the road this week.

Miller, who is Jewish, said that he was almost attacked Thursday by a “disturbed and disturbed man” who had a Palestinian flag.

“The disturbed hatred in this country has become uncontrollable. Today, I was run from the road to Rocky River, and the life of me and my family was threatened by a person who carried out a Palestinian flag before taking off,” wrote Miller in an article on social media.

Miller, a republican who was a reservist in the American Marines and worked as assistant of the White House in the first administration of President Donald Trump before the first election in the Congress in the Northeast of Ohio, in 2022, said that he had reported a relationship with the police of the American Capitol and the local police after the incident.

On Friday, Rocky River police announced that after a more in -depth investigation, she had identified the suspect as Ferras Hamdan, a 36 -year -old man in the region. According to the press release, after an arrest warrant was signed for him, Hamdan voluntarily transformed into authorities with a lawyer and is now awaiting appearance in court.

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The police press release said Miller had filed a criminal complaint for aggravated threatening and a request for a criminal protection order against Hamdan. The Investigation Department on the incident with the American Capitol police, the Ohio State Patrol and the FBI.

“We know who is this person and he will face justice,” Miller said in an online statement on Thursday. “As a navy, an American proud Jewish and an ardent defender of Israel, I will not hide from this flagrant anti -Semitic violence.”

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Miller, in a video published on social networks, added: “I will continue to fight against anti -Semitism, Islamophobia and all other forms of hatred”.

The representative Max Miller, R-Ohio, seen here in Capitol Hilll on February 28, 2023, said that he was almost run from the road in Ohio Thursday by a demonstrator. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call / Getty Images)

And speaking directly to the person he said tried to get him out of the road, Miller added that if “you have a problem, bring it to our office. You want to get me out of the road, that’s another story.”

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The incident involving Miller intervenes in the midst of an increasing number of attacks on political motivation against republican and democratic legislators. Last weekend, two main legislators of the Democratic State of Minnesota and their spouses were killed at home, with two killed and two seriously injured.

And the cases of anti-Semitism and crimes of hatred towards Jewish Americans have increased in recent years, in particular since the start of the War of Israel-Hamas in October 2023, according to a survey last year by the Anti-Deformation League (ADL). ADL is an international non -governmental organization founded to combat anti -Semitism and other forms of fanaticism.