Posted on 12/21/2017 4:52:26 AM PST by naturalman1975
AN OFF-DUTY police officer has been singled out for praise by the Victorian Premier following his heroic response to the Melbourne incident.
Daniel Andrews said the off-duty officer that rushed in to arrest the 32-year-old man suspected of driving a car into busy afternoon crowds had selflessly come to the aid of others.
“The off-duty arresting officer, a member of Victorian Police, who was prime in terms of detaining the alleged offender did suffer some injuries and is receiving hospital treatment,” he said.
“I think we would be right to single him out for special praise for the way in which he instinctively came to the aid of others in the protection of public order and potentially avoiding the so much other carnage.”
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That’s the problem with living in quasi police states. People are conditioned to not take action and wait for someone else to save them. The people around that attack should have dragged the scum out and beat him to ...
From what I am seeing on the news here, plenty of people took action besides this police officer.
And the offender is in hospital, although they are not saying how he got injured. It may have been in the crash, but yes, part of me is hoping it wasn’t just that.
The perpetrator was an Australian citizen
...of Afghan descent.
But it was not terror related...
well, yet another mere coincidence.
Love how they point that out like that proves it wasn't motivated by Islam or something. Idiots....
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