A man who threatened a member of the US Congress with his vehicle in Ohio went to the authorities, police said.
Friday, the driver was identified by the Rocky River police service like Feras Hamdan, 36. He pleaded not guilty to charges related to the incident.
In a shared video on social networks, Max Miller, a republican representative of the house, said that a man had horny and forced him “out of the road” in order to attract his attention.
He alleged that the man had tried to show him a Palestinian flag, said “death to Israel” and that he “wanted to kill me and my family”.
Police said they had expressed a mandate for the arrest of Mr. Hamdan after the Congress member filed a criminal complaint. They said that Mr. Hamdan turned shortly after.
The incident, which occurred at Rocky River, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, is now the subject of an investigation by the authorities of the States and Federals, including the Capitol of the American Capitol.
Mr. Hamdan, who would be a doctor in Ohio with private practice, faces accusations of aggravated threatening and ethnic intimidation.
He appeared on Friday before the court, where his deposit was set at $ 500,000 (£ 371,500) by the judge of the Municipal Court of Rocky River, Joseph Burke. He was sentenced to renouncing his passport and had to be returned to court on July 8.
Thursday afternoon, Miller published a video on X describing the alleged incident, calling the “unleashed” driver.
“Hatred disturbed in this country has become out of control,” he wrote in the post.
Miller added that “as a navy, an American proud Jewish and an ardent defender of Israel, I will not hide from this blatant anti -Semitic violence”.
The incident is involved in the heels of a deadly attack on two democratic state politicians in Minnesota and their spouses, an incident that raised the alarm on political violence in the United States.
The legislative of the state Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot dead in their homes on Saturday in what was described as an “assassination with political motivation”. Another legislator, the state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also slaughtered but survived.
Police arrested Vance Luther Boelter as part of Minnesota’s attacks, which, according to investigators, had a list of 70 “targets” which included the names of other Democratic politicians.
President Donald Trump was also the target of political violence, with two assassination attempts against him in 2024.
