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Four Swedish Cops on Vacation in New York Answer the Call of Duty to Stop a Brutal Assault ....
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | April 23, 2015 | Michael Zinnie

Posted on 04/23/2015 3:54:58 PM PDT by Cecily

Four burly Swedish cops put their New York City vacation on hold to answer the call of duty on a Manhattan subway train last night.

The friends were on their way to see Les Misérables on Broadway, DNA Info reports, and rushed in to stop a brutal assault on a crowded rush-hour 6 train.

'We came here for vacation. We’ve been here one day. We’re no heroes, just tourists,' Makrus Åsberg, a 25-year-old officer with the police Uppsala, Sweden, told the New York Post. Mr Asberg, along with Erik Naslund, Samuel Kvarzell and Eric Jansberger, subdued an enraged homeless man who was viciously beating another rider on the train.

The Samaritan Scandinavians stopped the violence and held the attacker until the NYPD could arrive, the Post reports.

Video from the incident shows Kvarzell and Asberg holding the suspect down and trying to calm him down as he screams.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: FreeReign

I’m sorry, did I hurt your wittle feewings?


41 posted on 04/23/2015 5:47:31 PM PDT by semaj
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To: semaj
I’m sorry, did I hurt your wittle feewings?

No, but it seems like I hurt yours, Rev. Al.

42 posted on 04/23/2015 5:48:51 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

You give yourself way too much credit. LOL.


43 posted on 04/23/2015 5:52:09 PM PDT by semaj
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To: Cecily

Well done, gents.


44 posted on 04/23/2015 6:09:33 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: Cecily

Burly? I don’t see it.


45 posted on 04/23/2015 6:19:49 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: semaj

To just come out and state the obvious... You’re an idiot.

Every single day there are tens of thousands if not millions of police/public interactions, yet to your dismay there are no rivers of blood flowing down Main St, no mountains of dead bodies on every street corner. Are there bad cops? Yeah, just like there are bad doctors, bad lawyers, bad preachers, etc. That’s a normal part of any society.


46 posted on 04/23/2015 6:44:06 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Making harmless people defenseless, does not make dangerous people harmless)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Sorta like the idiot that tried to steal a suit case belonging to .....an Olympic sprinter standing around with three or four of the fastest people in the world. The perp didn’t get far!


47 posted on 04/23/2015 6:47:03 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Defiant; Cecily

Four visiting Swedes, was it?

TWO visiting Norwegians would have accomplished it - - - : ^ ]


48 posted on 04/23/2015 6:58:53 PM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Mastador1
Probably screaming "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" while they had him pinned.

Yeah, only they don't say things like that around here. They say "you gonna !@#$% with me, WHITE BOY?"

49 posted on 04/23/2015 7:17:48 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: RightGeek

Ooh, and studly, too!


50 posted on 04/23/2015 8:17:11 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: 2CAVTrooper
"...yet to your dismay there are no rivers of blood flowing down Main St, no mountains of dead bodies on every street corner."

?

51 posted on 04/23/2015 8:59:48 PM PDT by semaj
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To: carcraft
That was the US track team in a Spanish airport. Mr. Thief stole the suitcase of the World hundred meter dash champion. 😃
52 posted on 04/23/2015 10:23:13 PM PDT by Rockpile
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