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.
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Body camera footage shows a tense confrontation between an Idaho officer and a knife-wielding suspect, which resulted in a fatal shooting
The officer arrived on the scene to see the man actively stabbing the woman as she lay on the ground
One sister is hospitalized and another is in jail after an argument over apple fritters ended in a stabbing
Angel Rosario, 64, stabbed the officer with a knife inside the officer’s home when he was asked not to smoke marijuana in the house
At least three people were stabbed in a parking lot at Sports Authority Stadium Field after a Denver Broncos game
A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder in the stabbings, which happened around 7 a.m. Tuesday
The veteran officer had reason to believe the knife-wielding suspect was about to stab him, the chief said
The man had threatened his girlfriend with knives and came at officers with a machete before he was shot
The crazed man stood atop a car with gardening shears threatening the officers and K-9
Court documents released Friday detail the gruesome murder of a popular teacher by one of her students
Police were responding to reports of loud noise and breaking glass when they spotted the woman who refused to drop the knife
Upon viewing the video of the incident in which Daytona Beach police officers were forced to shoot Jermaine Green while he held a woman hostage at knifepoint, 5 training challenges came to mind
A 12-year-old Pennsylvania boy found the blade in a bag of M&Ms
25-year-old Mingdong Chen implicated himself in the killings late Saturday
A man identified by police as a person of interest has been taken into custody, but no charges had been filed
University police arrested 18-year-old Zesen Shen and 21-year-old Kaiyu Lao
The woman’s brother called police and said she may have been on narcotics and was tearing up their shared home
The officer was in serious condition after suffering stab wounds from a butcher knife, the suspect was fatally shot by police
The robber fired a warning shot just past the clerk, but he barely flinched
K-9 Kato had surgery and was released from the vet after having been stabbed in the shoulder
54-year-old Vernett Bader is charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature
The shop keeper suffered many cuts on his arm from the would-be burglar, who took several jabs before fleeing
The man survived the shooting and pleaded guilty to assault
The officer arrived within a minute of receiving a 911 call and fired at the suspect, striking him 5 times
