While executing a search warrant with our county Sheriff’s Department, I entered a kitchen from the living room and discovered that the bad guys had stuck a lockblade knife into the ceiling tile behind a beam separating the two rooms.
Any officer knows to “watch the hands” and routinely tells suspects to get their hands up. Be sure not to let your guard down because you think “hands up” is safe. In this case, the hands could have been going for the blade before the officer knew it. Always stay on your guard.