A man with an ax and a sword tried to enter The New York Times' newsroom

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Source: Business Insider

A man with an ax and a sword tried to get into The New York Times' Manhattan office building on Thursday, police told Insider. The New York Police Department confirmed to Insider that a 27-year-old man found his way into the lobby of the newspaper's 8th Avenue office building while carrying a "plastic bag with a knife, sword, and ax." He wanted to speak to the outlet's political journalists, the NYPD told The Associated Press.

The man then handed over his weapons after he was denied entry and was later taken to the hospital for evaluation, NYPD told Insider.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/man-with-ax-and-sword-tried-get-into-nyt-office-2022-11

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A man with an ax and a sword tried to enter The New York Times' newsroom to speak to its politics journalists, police said

[sakabatou]

1. Yeah, come in baring a sword and axe to "talk" to people

That'll make you look sane.

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. Crazy fuck!

Thanks repuglican party for emboldening all the crazies to commit violence.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. That's their MO

incite the idiots and feign innocent shock.

[splat]

4. Doofus didn't know the pen is mightier than the sword.

He was hoping to ax somebody smart about it.

[mahina]

7. Ha!

[Talitha]

5. Damn.....

[Justice matters.]

6. Well, after hearing (while watching) hair furhair repeat "fake news" and whine endlessly

being a victim of "the failing New York Times" witch hunt...

Stochastic Terrorism 18 hours a day on his Lie Social.

Some unstable magat will respond. Mob boss hair furhair knows it.

Seems like MSM doesn't.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Crazy or not, Who poisoned his mind against NYT? Rhetorical question. . . . nt

[maxsolomon]

19. Nary a week goes by that there isn't an Anti-NYT OP on DU.

They get it from "all sides" including ours.

[vercetti2021]

9. Wow

An ax and a sword? Holy shit take it easy Kratos

[Aristus]

17. We ought to be grateful.

He didn't murder forty people with a rapid-fire, easily-reloadable assault rifle. In today's United States, that's a blessing of untold immensity.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. If I were his lawyer I'd call him a Viking Editor

Caricature or satire might get him off.

[twodogsbarking]

11. Was he carrying a pillow and did he have a metal "T" on a chain around his neck?

[IronLionZion]

12. No bone saw?

Just want to talk

[GreenWave]

13. Now just a minute! Just a darn minute!

How do a sword and an axe fit into a plastic bag? Were they toys? Unsharpened? Miniatures?

[Ford_Prefect]

14. The shopping bag from Target was something of a giveaway.

[milestogo]

15. Sounds like a Viking.

[dembotoz]

16. perhaps he was flagged for firearms and a disaster was averted

if he had gone to fox headquarters perhaps he would be on tucker tonight about how his rights were denied

[ck4829]

18. Kick