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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The officer shot him in the leg after he refused several orders to drop the knife
“Shoot me, shoot me, I want to die,” the teen yelled
“What are you going to do? You’re a stupid broad,” he said to the cop, who arrived after the man stabbed a Muslim cab driver
Police found the man with a steak knife sticking out of his back, buried a few inches in
Prosecutors also showed photos of the bodies of the victims as they were found by police and firefighters
Dozens of demonstrators marched near MacArthur Park, a heavily Hispanic neighborhood west of downtown
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 52, stabbed a prison guard in the eye in 2000
The man, who may be responsible for 20 stabbings and five deaths across three states, was trying to board a plane to Israel
When the made entry on a man sought in his own mother’s death, he charged them with an ax and was fatally shot
Police went to a home in Somerville after a man called to say his girlfriend had lunged at him with a knife and tried to set his clothes on fire
Inside the apartment were three children and the suspect’s girlfriend, who was bleeding
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The suspect had terrorized the neighborhood in the past and had run-ins with police
The suspect stabbed his sister-in-law and her child before taunting police and trying to wrestle a shotgun from an officer
51-year-old man had at least 5 outstanding warrants
The officers gave verbal commands to the suspect before shooting
