Edged Weapons
The Edged Weapons topic covers news, tips, tactics and equipment officers need to defend against blade attacks. Whether it’s a butcher knife or a pocket knife, police officers face the threat of an edged weapon attack more often than a firearm.
The strategies outlined below are simple but many require a change to the way we think and train as a law enforcement culture
Everybody wanted to meet me, Officer Friendly, because all my traffic violators were literally thanking me for giving them a ticket!
Kenosha police officer Pablo Torres returned from leave Saturday, 10 days after shooting a man who advanced on police armed with knives
Suspect became aggressive when the officers ordered him to drop the weapon in the June 2014 incident, according to police
Department’s police chief credited his officers for their handling of the potentially deadly incident
The suspect was allegedly attacking residents with a sharpened wooden stake before being shot
In November, the NAACP asked the Justice Department to review the shooting for any civil rights violations, saying information released by police did not seem to justify the shooting
37-year old Steven Andrew Smith was stopped January 30 by Dover Police Chief Jonathan Eason on suspicion of drunk driving
36-year-old Johnny Joseph Martinez confronted officers – threatening them with a chair and multiple knives as police attempted to take him into custody
Officer Craig Taylor said during a bench trial last month that he feared for his life during the July 2013 confrontation at an assisted living facility
24-year-old Ruhim Ullah was shot in the leg after waving an 18-inch machete at police in the 2010 confrontation
17-year-old fatally shot in a police station lobby was killed after she lunged at an officer with a butcher knife and a TASER failed to stop her
17-year-old girl who reportedly brandished a weapon was shot to death in the police station lobby Thursday
A folding knife, a fixed blade, and a multi-tool made the list for most impressive edged weapons at SHOT Show 2015
The teen is charged as an adult with murder and possession of a knife
Two police officers fatally shot an agitated man armed with at least one knife early Monday morning before finding his mother stabbed to death
The footage from the Wednesday shooting shows how quickly a relatively calm arrest can turn violent
The man chased two men with a knife, attempting to stab them, when a witness called police
Man’s behavior was “consistent with someone who intended to hijack an aircraft”
Officer who fired beanbags at a knife-wielding 95-year-old man who later died testified at his trial Thursday that his action was prompted by the fear
Officer’s attorney argued that officer did what he was trained to do to subdue a dangerous suspect who was coming at him with a knife
Officers fatally shot James Boyd, who was holding two knives, during an hourslong standoff in March
Todd William Shultz was shot 17 times outside of a Kmart in December 2012 after failing to drop a table knife and pair of scissors he was wielding
Bomb squad found containers of frozen urine in the vehicle of man who police say lunged at an officer with a knife and was fatally shot
Man lunged at an airport police officer with a knife during a confrontation
Two officers’ decision to pay for a troubled man’s restaurant tab led to his being arrested in his roommate’s stabbing death
The federal lawsuit seeks more than $2 million in damages, and states that Darrien Hunt, 22, wasn’t a threat
The video shows the man lunging at the officer with a hatchet after many commands by the officer to drop the weapon
