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Posted on 06/20/2019 6:07:44 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
VIDEO: Australian detective interrupts own news conference, tackles suspect
Dramatic video shows a police officer in Australia spectacularly interrupting his news conference by tackling a suspect.
Det. Senior Sgt. Daren Edwards made the tackle.
Police say the suspect actually interrupted the news conference earlier, expressing his disapproval of police.
And later, after his alleged comments to a 19-year-old woman, the woman's father started to chase him.
The suspect was arrested.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7.com ...
The takedown (great technique)......
The take down (great technique)......
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SYDNEY — An Australian detective interrupted his own news conference to complete a textbook tackle of a man now charged with public nuisance and stalking offences, prompting widespread praise for his sporting skills.
Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards quickly ended a media briefing outside the Maroochydore Magistrates' Court in the state of Queensland after shouts drew his attention to a 39-year old man racing behind him. The man was being chased for allegedly making inappropriate comments to a teenage girl, media reported. Police said he had now been charged.
The man was being chased for allegedly making inappropriate comments to a teenage girl, media reported. Police said he had now been charged.
Edwards, who media said was a former rugby league player in the coastal residential area of Redcliffe, peeled away from the news conference to bring the man to the ground in what is sometimes described as a "boots and all" tackle. The man was quickly handcuffed.
....I imagine he’s played some rugby in his past
Looks like a Dback. A linebacker would have hit him high and watched him crumble :)
He had some good footwork too.
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Boy do we need pitching. Get that grandson of yours ready quick.
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I wonder if he’ll take up any offers from the NFL. Where the hell do they learn that skill down there anyway?
Ripper , LOL
Rugby skills.
I imagine he’s played some rugby in his past
I know a gaggle of rugby players, a most unusual sport.
I used to kid then about flying on the team plane...
Laughing they said NO PLANE, the school never had funds.. mostly they pile in a few cars and head out.
No hotel! They party and spend the night with the host team, some times spending the night on mats in a gym!
Party? If someone thought there was excessive raking or something, it was ‘discussed’ in detail.
Note the scars on the back of the hands.
No porta potties and no one leaves the field???
And a couple of them my age still play!!!
Wild, but somehow civilized.
His comment was “That’s not a knife. This is a . . . excuse me a moment.”
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Where the hell do they learn that skill down there anyway?
Saw that yesterday. While everyone was cheering, I’m thinking “they arrested (and physically assaulted) that guy because he made a pass at a grown woman?!?”
Clown world.
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It really does depend on what he actually had said.
Why was he running away??
Rugby ..... one hell of a rugged game.
Probably because the girl’s father was chasing him and threatening him with violence...
Yea, others mentioned it...obviously the move was seared into his brain. He just might want to be careful as he gets older, doing something like that with an aging body doesn’t always end well.
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