Okay, I watched the video. It’s obvious the poor old guy was a dementia patient who should never have been provided with a sharp knife by the “care home”. I fault the “care workers” for this.
All he understands is that he feels threatened (and he really was being threatened) and doesn’t really comprehend what is going on. They used entirely the wrong approach, too. Calm voice and distraction works much better in such cases.
I could tell stories about what I saw going on in the nursing homes Where my Dad was sent for rehab after hospital stays. Some of the staff would try to goad dementia patients into acting out. It was disturbing (understatement).
I stayed with my Dad from 7am until 10pm (visitors locked out between 10pm and 7am) while he was in these top-rated facilities and insisted those staff members ever enter my Dad’s room unless I was there. I felt so desperately sorry for the man across the hall and the lady down the hallway who had no family members there to protect them.
Other staff were excellent and handled both the man and the lady appropriately and with compassion, using distraction and encouragement.
I’d love to see what transpired before the old guy freaked out and the cops were called. Sometimes people working in these facilities can be incompetent, burned out, or just plain sadistic (and some get a kick out of humiliating helpless old people of a different race). On the other hand, some dementia patients go through a stage where they can be aggressive and irrationally violent and very difficult to deal with.
Whatever happened, what were they thinking giving that man a sharp knife?
It was probably a butter knife. He poked the staff with it with no noted injury.