Man Threatens Cops With Knife, Gets Tased: Police

A 43-year-old psychiatric patient threatened police officers with a knife after he was a released from the hospital Wednesday, said Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg.

Police responded to a welfare call of a pedestrian on Pascack Road near Highland Terrace at 3:21 p.m.; callers reported that the man appeared disoriented and was using a walker, Ehrenberg said.

The man was bleeding from his arms, police said.

The man pulled out a ”box cutter-type knife,” cut his forearms with it, Ehrenberg said, and then threatened police officers, who told him to drop the knife.

The man refused to drop the knife and told police officer they would have to shoot him; one police officer fired his taser at the man, incapacitating him, police reported.

The man fell backwards from the guardrail he was sitting on and dropped the knife, police said.

Police secured the man, provided first aid, and had Paramus emergency medical services transport him to Bergen Regional Medical Center, authorities said.