Posted on 06/21/2022 4:34:58 AM PDT by bitt
Pulse-pounding body camera footage shows the moment an Illinois man lunges towards an officer with an ax during a traffic stop — before he is fatally shot.
The newly-released video, released last week by the Naperville Police department, shows the terrifying June 3 incident.
The officer involved — a 22-year veteran of the force who has not been identified — was conducting a traffic stop when a silver sedan pulled up alongside the officer and the other vehicle, police said.
The driver of the sedan can be heard making an inaudible comment on the body-camera footage, to which the officer responds, “Who are you, dude? Who are you?”
Dash-cam footage from the officer’s squad car shows Edward C. Samaan, 28, the driver of the silver car, open his door as he rolls up to the scene, before closing it, putting his vehicle in park, and then opening it again.
The body-worn camera then shows Samaan wordlessly exit the sedan, and begin to sprint towards the officer, an axe in his right hand. The officer steps backwards and draws his gun, firing the first of six shots at Samaan.
Samaan keels over and hits the ground at the fourth shot.
“Base, I’ve just been attacked, I just–shots fired! shots fired!” the officer radios in.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Looks like one of those swarthy terrorist types.
Such a tragedy, and he was an aspiring minaret yodeler, too...
Darwin Award
Alahwahoo Whackbar!
Dod he cross the open Southern Border?
Play stupid games, win deadly prizes.
That cop’s training paid off, he stopped the perp at close range and held his poop.
Thank God he was White. Can you imagine how Racist the Cop would have been if his attacker was a Colored Person?
very impressive. That cop had a fraction of a second to react.
One thing I noticed and laughed at was that when the idiot stopped his car, he failed to initially put it in park when he first tried to get out of the car......
Never bring an axe to a gunfight.
He axed for it.
Unless the attacker was muzzy, we won’t be hearing about this in the media.
Get a load of this, from last Dec/Jan...
http://www.willcosheriff.org/pressreleases/index.php/blotter/2022/01/wcso-police-blotter-week-of-175
” Summary: Edward C. Samaan, age 28 of this address was arrested for aggravated battery of a peace officer, aggravated battery and domestic battery.”
And the perp was running around loose...
My heart did not pound
I can’t blame the cop on this one.
He had every right to put him down.
Samaan Name Meaning
Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic thaman ‘price’, ‘value’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Damn, that's funny!
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