Times Square 脅す: Terrifying snap shows knife-（権力などを）行使するing man creep up behind group of Romanian tourists in 罪，犯罪-ridden Big Apple's main tourist 中心, before 存在 逮捕（する）d by 警官，（賞などを）獲得するs

An eagle-注目する，もくろむd photographer c aptured the moment a group of Romanian tourists were seconds away from 存在 削除するd by a knife-（権力などを）行使するing madman in Times Square. The の近くに shave saw would-be 攻撃者 Dequon Messiah, 22, able to get one 手渡す on the shoulder of his 的, while clutching a terrifying blade in the other. Photographer Richard Moore said he was ready with his camera after he saw Messiah 悩ますing others and taunting them with the knife. After the 攻撃者 began 追跡するing the unwitting tourists, Moore followed, and was able to picture the heart stopping moment before police 介入するd.

Messiah was 逮捕（する）d and 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with 脅迫的な, いやがらせ, and 犯罪の 所有／入手 of a 武器. The 冷気／寒がらせるing moment （機の）カム at around 10am Wednesday as Manhattan's iconic Times Square was filling up with tourists. Moore said he was sat in the hotspot when he noticed Messiah ぼんやり現れるing on a granite （法廷の）裁判, and he got an ominous feeling when he saw him flash the knife at passersby. The shutterbug told the New York 地位，任命する that he thought 'this isn't good,' but it didn't stop him に引き続いて the knifeman as Messiah hopped off the （法廷の）裁判 and 無d in on the 的s, who appeared to be Romanian tourists and musicians.

'I noticed he had this knife in one 手渡す, and he got の近くに enough to one of the musicians to put his other 手渡す on the musician’s shoulder,' Moore said. However, he said Messiah surprisingly 支援するd off and returned to his stoop すぐに after grabbing the man, where he continued scanning around Times Square. Moore said he called 911 after 証言，証人／目撃するing the 近づく 行方不明になる, worrying that Messiah would follow through with his next mugging 試みる／企てる. He said the 警官，（賞などを）獲得するs arrived after just over 10 minutes and 逮捕（する）d the 22-year-old. 'Police got him from behind,' he 追加するd. 'They took him 負かす／撃墜する 安全に for him and others.'

Messiah's 逮捕（する） comes as New York City 公式の／役人s 試みる／企てる to 取り組む the Big Apple's habitual 罪，犯罪 problems, with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg admitting he is 関心d for his family's safety in their everyday lives. によれば 公式の／役人 NYPD 罪，犯罪 統計（学）, the city has seen 意味ありげに 改善するd 罪，犯罪 人物／姿／数字s in 2023 so far with a 9.7 パーセント 下落する in all major 罪，犯罪s. While grand 窃盗罪 自動車 殺到するd by 6.3 パーセント, levels of 押し込み強盗, 性の 強襲，強姦 and 強盗s were all 負かす／撃墜する.

にもかかわらず, Bragg, who 発射 to fame by 起訴するing former 大統領 Donald Trump earlier this year, said he doesn't find the 統計（学） 慰安ing. 'I know the 統計（学） that 輸送 罪，犯罪 is 負かす／撃墜する, but when one of my family members gets on the train, I, too, get a knot in my stomach ,' he told FOX 5 News . 'I live here, I'm raising my family here, so we have a lot more work to do,' he 追加するd.?Read the 十分な story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12293949/Terrifying-snap-shows-knife-（権力などを）行使するing-man-creep-group-tourists-罪，犯罪-ridden-Big-Apple.html?ito=msngallery

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