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:
That’s what I was thinkin’. More important to get the video.
How did she not kill him at that range?
That would have been the better outcome.
She did wait too long.
It only emboldened the guy, making him think she was weak.
” everyone simply wants to record”...
Could be worth some money...
Here is another view : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L56KOpZ6vI4
Good thing he was white or we’d hear endlessly about how the man was shot in the back, was an honor student, just turning his life around, was a father of four, was minding his own business, etc.
pears that she holstered her gun after she shot him. That’s a bad move.
The guy is “white.” It’s okay to shoot white guys.
Just invite him to a “Beer Summit”.
Was the shot grouping good and tight?
I wonder how an unarmed Social Worker or Community Organizer would have handled this?
I assume some hands on Counseling and then a nice Bleeding Out.
Since AZ is a Constitutional Carry State, I’m sure an Armed Citizen would have come to the Officer’s defense if need be.
Just exactly when did this occur? Story says Sunday but story date is 6/18?
Also, she had to make sure that the area behind the target was clear.
Ahh. True. Very good point.
Read some of the posts at the Facebook site of the video...
People of color are saying that if he were black, there’d have been a whole pack of cops there and they would have shot him a dozen times as soon as he didn’t comply the first order. ...they claim it happens like this ALL the time....
A social worker would have defused the situation without a shot./s I’m just sayin’.
I’m surprised she’s not up on murder charges.
So they admit that blacks threaten police officers with an knife and ultimately death? Interesting.
I am surprised she let him chase her around as long as she did. I am not sure I would of been so patient.
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