DUNWOODY, Ga. â Police were dispatched to Perimeter Mall along Ashford Dunwoody Road on April 3 following reports a man was waving a knife at customers inside the Macyâs store. Mall security led police to Erik Weston Hughes Jr., 31, who was wearing an American flag shirt. Hughes called the claims he was waving a knife an âexaggerationâ and told officers people called the police on him because of his patriotic clothing. He claimed heâd been arrested before simply for wearing pro-Trump attire. Officers found a boxcutter in Hughesâ pocket, and Macyâs employees said 10 different customers reported that the man yelled at them while holding a knife with the blade open.