Posted on 06/19/2020 1:17:15 PM PDT by Morgana
Phoenix, AZ – A knife-wielding attacker chased a Phoenix police officer around her patrol vehicle while threatening to slice her throat in a store parking lot on Sunday (video below).
The harrowing incident began at approximately 7:45 p.m., when someone called 911 to report that a man armed with a knife was threatening to kill people at the Asiana Market near Union Hills Drive and 43rd Avenue, KTVK reported.
A lone Phoenix officer responded to the scene and intercepted the irate suspect out in the parking lot, cell phone footage showed. Sponsored:
The officer drew her duty weapon and ordered the man to put the knife down as she backed away from him while trying to use her patrol vehicle as a partial barrier.
“Shut up!” the man screamed repeatedly, chasing her around the SUV. “Shut your f–king mouth!”
The violent suspect then threatened to murder the officer, the video showed.
“Shoot me – I’ll kill you,” he told her. “I’ll kill you, you stupid little b—h. I’ll f–king slice your f–king throat!”
The officer again ordered the suspect to put his knife down, but he shoved the blade in her direction and began advancing on her as she backed away across the parking lot, the video showed.
The officer ultimately fired her weapon as her attacker closed in.
“Did she shoot him?” a bystander asked in the video. Sponsored:
“She had to!” another witness responded.
The unnamed 55-year-old suspect remained hospitalized on Tuesday, KNXV reported.
Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio praised the officer for her heroism and restraint.
“Officer did an amazing job,” DiCiccio wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “Watch how many times she circles the car. She risked her own life by not taking the shot much earlier, though she would have been justified in doing so.”
The officer who came under attack has been on the force for one year, he said.
The councilman noted that it takes less than one second for an attacker to close in on a victim from 21 feet away.
“This guy was less than 10 feet away and was a direct threat to her life,” he said, adding that the officer was a “hero [who] protected innocent lives.” Sponsored:
DiCiccio said that law enforcement officers face even greater risks due to anti-police rioters and media outlets.
“Every day our police officers leave for work not knowing if they will return home to their families,” he wrote. “The anti-police crowd from the newspapers and other media are putting officer and public lives in danger. Where is the outrage from the media at all the police deaths in just the past few weeks?”
Former Phoenix Assistant Police Chief Andy Anderson said that the officer handled the situation exactly as she was trained, KTVK reported.
“She was trying very hard to create distance with this individual,” the retired chief said. “She was trying very hard to get this individual to listen to her and calm down, but when he advanced on her in the method that he did, she ran out of options.”
Watch the incident unfold in the video below. Warning – Graphic Content and Obscene Language:
D7d you watch it?
As per paraphrasing pedo joe: “Suppose you have an unarmed guy with knife coming at you? Instead of shooting them in the heart, shoot them in the leg.” Or pull and Annie Oakley and shoot the knife out of their unarmed hand. If you’re not intimately involved in the incident, you don’t know what happened. Good on the LEO. But watch out!
They didn’t send back-up? They expected one officer to handle that, alone?
Union Hills?! That is NOT a bad area. I would have expected Indian School or Van Buren.
No rioting No gold coffin!
I think Slow Joe would have her pull an Esther Williams and dive away.
Brave woman.
Obviously should have sent a social worker. /s
I hope that officer doesn’t get the death penalty.
That was very foolish to wait so long, she was in high danger of tripping over the curb or any number of things.
This is a direct effect of the current climate.
white female cop, white attacker
its why its not national news
can’t be exploited my racebaiters and racist libtard media
+. Agree.
Backup showed up right at the end. Cops can’t teleport.
Amazing how casual everyone else was around.
Family just sits there watching and recording.
Others put stuff in car trunks like nothing is happening.
Others wandering around behind.
I was watching for her opportunity to not risk bystanders milling about.
She won’t be charged. He was a white guy.
Tuck, roll and shoot?
Yup, hesitated way too long. She should have plugged him before the cellphone video even started.
I would think that sort of call, means two, not one officer would be sent. Maybe there just aren’t a lot of available officers these days.
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