Suspected cop-stabber yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ during attack, police say

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The scene after the NYPD cop was stabbed.
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The man accused of shooting two cops and stabbing a third in Brooklyn this week screamed “Allahu akbar!” three times during the unprovoked attack, police said Saturday.

Authorities have so far been unable to tie the man, Dzenan Camovic, to any organized terror group, but there are indications that his alleged tactics and ambush were similar to anti-police attacks in Paris and elsewhere, according to John Miller, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of counter terrorism.

“All the hallmarks that would be out of the terrorist playbook,” Miller said at a briefing from NYPD  headquarters in lower Manhattan

Camovic, 20, opened a Twitter account this month, and liked 24 tweets from those writing about George Floyd protests, looting in Soho and anti-cop propaganda, police said.

Camovic, who lives with his family in Sheepshead Bay, allegedly ran up to an officer and stabbed him in the neck just before midnight Wednesday night on Flatbush Avenue near Church Avenue, police have said.

He then allegedly took control of the officer’s gun, and shot two officers in the hand, cops said.  A sergeant who responded to the scene shot Camovic.

He was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition and has not been interviewed because he is intubated, sources have said.

He is expected to be charged with three counts of attempt murder on a police officer. The FBI is involved to see if federal charges will be filed.

A relative told The Post Thursday that Camovic, whose family hails from Bosnia, is a practicing Muslim and “absolutely not a terrorist.”

Allahu Akbar is Arabic for “God is great!” and is used by Muslims as a declaration of faith.