Posted on 04/13/2024 5:14:14 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The hero cop who took down a knifeman, ending his killing spree can be revealed.
NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott came face-to-face with the 40-year-old man dressed in a Kangaroos rugby league jersey and brandishing a knife as she responded to the fatal stabbings of six people in Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon.
Witnesses said the officer only had time to yell “put it down” before the knifeman charged her.
After the man lunged at Inspector Scott, she shot him dead.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said Inspector Scott was “doing well under the circumstances” on Saturday evening. “She showed enormous courage and bravery,” the police commissioner continued, adding Scott was alone when she confronted the suspect. “She will be interviewed tomorrow.”
In 2019, Inspector Scott was recognised at the Rotary Club Police Officer of the Year award ceremony when she received the Demonstrated Courage and Devotion to Duty award.
On Saturday, that courage was on full display, when she met a man on the fifth floor about 4pm, him brandishing a 30cm knife.
The man, who is well known to police, was in the midst of a killing spree.
He had just fatally stabbed six innocent people, and was advancing on the senior officer.
There was only enough time for one warning before he would be upon her.
“Put it down,” she yelled.
The man ignored her and kept advancing.
The woman had no choice. Her years of training and experience kicked in.
She fired.
The bullet went into the man’s chest.
He dropped, bled out and died.
Putting emotions aside, the woman immediately got down on her knees and attempted to save the life of the man she had just shot by giving him CPR until other emergency services officers arrived.
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This crap again.
Yes, the man who inspired Crocodile Dundee was shot and killed by police.
But it wasn't because they came to get his guns.
Nobody ever tried to take his guns off him. Never happened.
He did feel he'd been treated unfairly by the government over some issues he had on his farm (he was forced to destroy diseased cattle and he lost his farm), but that happened a decade before he suddenly decided to go on a shooting spree.
By the time this happened, he was a long term drug addict (methamphetamine) and on 2nd August 1999, he shot and wounded two innocent people from ambush. Police set up roadblocks and the following day, 3rd August 1999, he shot at police from ambush at one of those roadblocks. He killed one officer, and wounded another, and then engaged in a gun fight with other police who the wounded officer summoned to assist him. He was ultimately shot and killed by the officer he had wounded.
Nobody ever tried to take his guns. That is just crap.
The man was a drug addict who shot innocent people, and then two police officers, killing one of them and wounding the police officer who returned fire after being shot from ambush.
Making him out to be some victim of government oppression is absolutely ridiculous. He was a drug crazed murderer.
The Gaydar is strong with this one.
No surprise he was a male prostitute.
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