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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Officers were provided with details from the 911 calls about the man’s possible mental health crisis, including that he had a knife
The officer, who responded to a call about a woman being stabbed, heard screams before encountering a man armed with a knife
The man came into the store, grabbed a large knife from a shelf, and stabbed the boy and a 25-year-old woman
Police offered to transport the suspect to a local hospital just before he lunged toward an officer with a knife
The incident began when an officer entered a store and found the suspect in an altercation with a clerk
The victim was a woman in her 20s with two young daughters
The man ignored multiple commands to drop the knife, bodycam video shows
Officers were responding to a report of a domestic incident
One officer used a TASER before the shooting, but it seemed to not have an effect
Officers engaged in “an intense, prolonged struggle” for the knife, officials said
NYC Mayor Eric Adams called the agent’s actions heroic and said the intruder would be brought to justice
The suspect ran into a business where he took an employee hostage, police said
“There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason” behind the attacks, a police spokesman said
The man suddenly pulled another shiny object from his pocket and pointed it at officers as if ready to shoot, video shows
The district attorney’s office said the officer’s use of force was “clearly a last resort”
Deputies were assisting a U.S. Marshals Service task force when the scene turned deadly
A burglary call in Seattle ended with the suspect and a K-9 dead
Two officers were making their way upstairs when a knife-wielding man appeared
Fort Smith police had received a 911 call about a man assaulting a person who was on the ground
Police said a surveillance team was following the man just prior to the attack
The man refused multiple commands to drop the knife
The officer managed to shoot the suspect during the altercation, police said
Officers repeatedly asked the man to drop the knife and spent several minutes trying to de-escalate the situation
The officers, who were stabbed in the face and head, called in the department’s special response team and a crisis negotiator
The shooting was the second in two days by Detroit police officers after they’d reportedly been attacked
Officers were able to subdue the man, who had 14 previous arrests, police said
Bodycam video shows the suspect lunging at officers
Video shows a woman charging at a deputy with a knife while her two children look on
It wasn’t immediately clear who fired the fatal shot
The suspect runs down a hallway as officers shoot at him and is ultimately detained by a SWAT team
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