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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Derrick White will face 11 additional charges related to his alleged attack and escape
Rene Loney, 49, was arrested and charged with menacing a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon
The suspect overpowered Deputy Harrison Tolliver with a plastic comb several times in the neck, then stole his uniform
Johnny Pimentel pleaded guilty to using a razor blade to slash the behinds of multiple women
The sheriff believes the attack may have been gang related
The officers struck the man with a baton and sprayed him with pepper spray but neither affected the man
Police shot a man as he repeatedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend in the stomach and legs
Avelino Urbano Garon, 59, was arrested for threatening his wife with a knife over whose job it was to empty the litter box
Witnesses are questioning why 9 shots were fired at the teen, who approached police with a knife and ignored orders
Brian McGhee, better known as “The Future” Donovan Ruddick, stabbed a woman to death then crashed his vehicle fleeing police
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The man was a mentally ill Vietnam veteran that police had dealt with before, and he approached with two knives
Capt. David Huff, a trained hostage negotiator, fired at point-blank range at a man holding a young girl at knife-point
The man got out of his car and approaches the officer with a blade in each hand, refusing to drop them
James Terry Watson, 43, was stabbed 4 times after 3 suspects pulled him out of a taxi
Jeffrey Allen Jones was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon
Sgt. Courtney Gale was sworn in this week - she was stabbed 12 times working as a security guard at a market
3 panhandlers were arrested after they stabbed the young woman for refusing to pay them for taking photos
A jury of five men and seven women deliberated for about four hours at the Penobscot Judicial Center before finding Warren Frederick Dome, 55, guilty of the charge
John Mallett was armed with three knives when he entered a building and stabbed 4 men
Police arrived at a domestic dispute to find a man wielding a knife and baseball bat, and came at one of the officers
Sources indicate that the father had been released from jail 3 days before the incident
The suspect got into a fistfight, then stabbed a man before police arrived and ended the violence
One officer was shot in the leg by a bullet that ricocheted during the shooting
The suspect was shot after threatening officers with a knife; he was hospitalized and expected to be okay
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