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 responded after a man grabbed a knife and started stabbing his domestic partner with a butcher knife
The woman pulled out a 10-inch kitchen knife and lunged at officers
“I’'m innocent,” Frederick Then, 20, told reporters as police led him away Sunday night
So far, 13 suspected gang members have been charged
Police said the suspect deflected multiple beanbag rounds from police before grabbing a hostage and raising a knife to her neck
Officer Jill Kidik was critically injured after being stabbed in the neck while responding to a tenant-landlord dispute in May
Authorities said the man produced a “large carving knife” and attempted to stab an officer three times
A 4-inch double-sided knife was removed from the suspect’s waist area, police said
Chief Bill Bones said he was heartened by how his department managed the chaotic crime scene
Police responded to a hit-and-run crash when a man, who wasn’t involved in the accident, approached officers with a knife
The young girl died two days after a man invaded her birthday party and stabbed nine people, authorities said
Police said six children were among the nine stabbed at the Boise apartment complex
A reasonable and intelligent strategy for defeating terror attacks cannot focus on the tool used by the attacker, but must focus on the attacker himself
The K-9 was reportedly stabbed to death by a suspect who was later shot and killed by an officer
No arrests have been made
Two men saw the struggle between the suspect and the deputy and pulled over to help
The DA has cleared the officer in the shooting
51-year-old Wanda Irvin entered the bank Tuesday armed with a knife and demanded money
A man who fatally stabbed two women outside Marseille’s main train station had been detained for shoplifting and released the day before the attack
Prosecutors on Monday filed charges including attempted murder against a man suspected of ramming his car into a cop, stabbing him and then injuring four people
Paris prosecutor’s office said that a counter-terrorism investigation has been opened
A car and knife attack on a cop outside a football game and a pursuit of a moving van that left four people injured appear to be the work of a single suspected terrorist
While the officer was searching the terminal’s baggage claim area, the suspect lunged at him with a knife, stabbing him in the leg
Police said Antonio Garcia Goff drove toward the officer before he fled
The knife-wielding man was told to drop his weapon before he allegedly walked toward the officer
Shane Marsh refused numerous commands to drop a knife as he approached Officer Jonathan Curtis
The officer received stitches and did not have to undergo surgery
Three people were arrested during a protest after a vigil for a knife-wielding student who was fatally shot by campus police
