2:25 in the morning. A McDonald’s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Three men corner Miguel Palacios, 31, against a trash container and blows rain down on his head. 🪓
When the attackers back away, Palacios reaches into his backpack. What he pulls out is not a phone. It’s an axe. In seconds, he smashes a table with one blow and shatters a huge glass panel. The same men who were beating him seconds earlier flee in terror. The customers eating at that hour could not believe what they were seeing.
No one was injured by the axe. Palacios was arrested with the weapon and a knife on him, and was released without bail because New York law does not allow detention for those charges. The video surpassed 14 million views before being removed from TikTok. ⚠️ He was carrying the axe in his backpack — in a fast-food restaurant.