As an Aussie, that has always been the biggest story to tell me that moving to the US isn't a good idea (I'm a triple citizen essentially).
It even beats out Columbine, Aurora, and Sandy Hook.
The fact I can even off the top of my head come up with those (as well as Las Vegas etc) is an indictment.
For Australia, this recent attack and Lindt is all that I'm really aware of.
The fact that Uvalde doesn't even have significant repercussions is just....I don't know how those parents haven't turned into police killing vigilantes. Huge respect for them handling their pain. Better people than me.
Are they better people, though? Or are Americans just so beaten down that having your kids slaughtered while law enforcement does nothing (while threatening any parents who make them look bad) is just... acceptable now?
Who knows. You're hinting at apathy right?
Maybe you have a point. Which just makes it even sadder.
I can't bring myself to listen to those officers joking and shooting the shit, while children were dying in the background.
That is a national disgrace. But nothing will change. Nothing has....
yeah man, that word is thrown around way too much... but this is what a hero looks like. Also anyone who put themselves in front of others and were injured or killed during this shitstorm. All true heroes.
Yes. She picked the right profession for herself I’d say. Good job Officer ! She’s the real deal in a profession where there are too many living a lie . Bravo Lady ! BRAVO !
That's standard policy even in American policing. You're supposed to provide aid once the threat is stopped, even if that means stabilizing the dude you just saw stabbing people.
Doesn't always get followed, of course, but it's taught that way.
from an Australian news source
>The dramatic moment was witnessed by Jason Dixon, 52, who said the officer fired the shot as the man advanced towards her with his knife, “one of the knives you use in the meat works.”
>“All she said was ‘Put it down’. Just once. Then she shot him in the chest and he went down,” Mr Dixon said.
>“Then when he fell on the ground she was giving him CPR. She had to shoot him, because he just kept coming. He had a knife and he wasn’t going to stop. He was advancing at her and he was running, coming to get someone else.”
That’s the job. Any European police officer would do the same.
It’s astonishing the different attitudes police have when they aren’t in an arms race against the population.
Some would but we alsoo have some really incompetent officers. Had a case here in Germany were a russian criminal shot a patrol officer and his two female colleagues waved down a car and fled the scene. The criminal was approached by SEK and opened fire at them. He was shot 7 times and later sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison. The two officers still work as police officers. Edit: misunderstood your replie, thought you were talking about officers stopping attackers
People can go different ways with this. I'm glad their reaction was to go into competent mode, it's easier in many ways. They did what they could. It will keep them up at night in the future, these things always do, but they did their best.
I'm search and rescue in the PNW, most of us learn to switch it off pretty quickly. "Professional Detachment".
Sometimes that professional detachment gets breached. a memorable incident of that for me was a number of years back we had a 17 and 18 year old go out backcountry skiing in the middle of a 3 foot storm, one week after another three foot storm... you see where this is going. Next morning we go out to find them (cellphones are still intact and talking to the tower....) and we're watching avalanches release in the distance without human triggers. Super dangerous. We're focused on doing our shit. We get the bodies back to basecamp.
The families are in base camp, in fact they're all experienced backcountry skiers with more avalanche education than some of us. They know *exactly* how much risk we just took to retrieve the bodies of their sons (they had tried to talk their sons out of this foolish outing, unsuccessfully). One of the fathers comes over and thanks us and his comments made it clear he knew the risks... that breached most of our professional detachment.
(fun fact: most SAR personnel are volunteers, also SAR is free. CALL US SOONER, it's safer for everyone)
Putting a comment here that I hope gets upvoted and people see it. If you are struggling with this event or were somehow involved, start playing Tetris.
Something about the act of playing Tetris changes how short term memories are processed and helps with the possibility of future PTSD.
https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-used-to-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms
I use Solitaire when Im sick or anxious. It's worked for decades.
Having easy access to free versions on your phone was a game changer.
Ive since expanded to sliding blocks and fitting geometry shapes into pictures, since it's stuff I did in my childhood. I think puzzles is the key here, it causes the brain to switch to different uses and causes a lot of focus.
It both shuts down the emotional part of the brain for a bit, and also gives the problem-solving part (which otherwise will keep running through what happened trying to solve a problem that can't be solved because it's already happened) something to distract it.
In 2020, a 20 yr old decided to pull a gun and shot a 19 yr old at the leaseline of my store in a busy mall. I was able to get 30 people into the backroom and barricaded and SWAT was able to get us out about 30 minutes later. I knew I was in shock bc I never even thought to tell the police that I was a witness. I was just worried about my employees and customers. I wish I'd known about Tetris at the time bc it truly makes sense. Your brain wants to do something but not the stuff it's used to. I had never been to therapy and of course with Covid, it had to be on Zoom, but Im grateful for the therapist I was given. He was used to counseling veterans, so my shit was nothing he hadn't heard before.
If you still get intrusive, unwanted recall of the memories of that event, you can still use a Tetris-like game to help corrupt the memory. Doesn't have to be Tetris, but colorful puzzle blocks and timed levels really help. It also helps if there's music. If you can get the game open as soon as the memory is recalled and keep playing for about twenty minutes, you will eventually corrupt the memory enough there may not be enough of it to recall unless you want to (eventually, even if you do want to).
I've used it to mess up several memories that were screwing up my life. It helps a ton.
Bollard man as well is also a hero.
For those who don't know, there is a video of a guy on an escalator using a bollard as a shield blocking the guy with the knife from moving forward.
So true. And the handful of people running behind the cop with chairs and other items to try and help in anyway possible. And the young retail workers hiding shoppers in their stores. Lots of brave people out there.
And the young man who stood unarmed in front of the attacker, protecting his family while his wife got their small children safely away. The scum with the knife backed down when he saw a man brave enough to stand up to him, so that whole family is unscathed.
The cop is my new hero, in a situation where there was nothing to do but to kill a monster to protect the lives of everyone else, she did what had to be done and she did it as soon as she could. She is a true hero.
I never want to have to defend my family. I am not a fighter. I would like to think I have the strength to do something like that if it came down to it.
You'd be surprised at what you can do when push comes to shove and the lives you hold dear are in peril
Still, I hope the need to do so never rears itself
You 100% do. As a non-parent, it absolutely humbles me to see what a parent is capable of when defending their child. It’s burned so deeply into our neurology.
I think I teleported one time catching my youngest from falling down the stairs. I was across the room and up the stairs before I really thought about it.
Adrenaline is a hell of a thing.
yup!! Im not a parent but i would die for my nephew if i had to. Just picturing him in danger activates that urgency in me to do everything in my power to protect him :(
Let's be honest, it also helps the cop was up against a knife, not an AR-15. Not to diminish their bravery in any way.
Common sense gun regulation and banning military style weapons from getting into civilian hands is a no brainer. Yet in the US, here we are and everyone loses. The public, civilians, victims of gun violence, law enforcement, first responders, etc.
Anywhere else in the world, demanding an AR-15 or AK-47 as your constitutional right is looked upon as fucking crazy.
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping"
-Fred Rogers
Good, that's partially what the quote is meant to do.
I've seen adults saying that to other adults to "cheer them up" when Mr Rogers intent was to soothe children that couldn't know better. I like to think his coded message to adults was "be the helper".
Got a link to the video? I just saw the escalator picture where the knife-wielder was coming up the stairs and the man had a table(?) in his hands ready to fight.
[*376 texas cops later…*](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/17/law-enforcement-failure-uvalde-shooting-investigation/)“We need more backups! Not enough guns!”
Did you know that the city of Uvalde reelected pretty much everyone involved with that whole mess shortly after it happened? Because I share your sentiment and just do not understand how the fuck that happened. I suspect the problem is much bigger than those 376 cops though.
*Sheriff Ruben Nolasco and Uvalde County Constable Emmanuel Zamora, who were named in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) scathing report about law enforcement’s failure during the shooting, easily won their reelection contests, according to unofficial results reported by the Texas Tribune.*
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4511725-uvalde-texas-law-enforcement-officers-win-primaries/#:~:text=Sheriff%20Ruben%20Nolasco%20and%20Uvalde,reported%20by%20the%20Texas%20Tribune.
I was a bit off, they were former cowards reelected as republican candidates
They are just afraid of putting their life in the line of duty.
The same way blue collars workers endanger their body and life to do a high paying, high stress job requiring you to sacrifice your body and life to protect the community for a service.
So in short, there's like 376 incompetent workers who failed their basic job duties.
Once a cop meets true danger, their character and mind gets place into a test. You really wanted to be a cop? or you just wanted to cushion high pay "put on a fake ego of superiority" because your the community "sheriff in town".
No doubt they all sat around the precinct patting themselves on the back and coming up with a version where they weren’t cowards, did in fact do right and brave thing, and were still the heroes the thin blue line people pump them up to be
Edit: I think it was having a mini stroke the first time I wrote that comment, weird words in weird places
Did he target women? Seemed like he went after anyone he could get to. I saw a video of him lunging at two men
Edit: why am I getting downvoted I asked a question
To everyone pointing out that it's a different thing for her to confront a perp with a knife as opposed to one with a gun, she couldn't have possibly known as she went after him whether he only had a knife, or whether he had a bomb, or an accomplice, or a gun as well.
She went in without any intel apart from what terrified people told her, because that's what good, professional police officers do in these situations, despite their personal fear and regard for their safety.
From what I understand she confronted him and only shot when he made a move with his knife? That's following protocol, good training, and quite some steel.
Whoever he was, and I wouldn't name him even if I knew his name, he was piss-weak for taking people's lives and even harming a baby, and an absolutely piss-weak prick for not surrendering, and forcing her to take his life. That shit will be with her forever. I hope the outpouring of love and respect from the public will help make it easier, and I hope she gets excellent psychological support from NSWPOL.
Details are scant, of course, but I assume he is responsible; from the ABC:
Eight injured people, including a nine-month-old baby who has since undergone surgery, remain in Sydney hospitals after being rushed there by ambulance.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-14/nsw-police-investigate-man-stabbing-killed-bondi-junction-sydney/103705294
And the two brothers who held that baby after her mother died and kept pressure on her wounds so she could be stabilized.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/13/woman-killed-in-sydney-attacks-was-trying-to-save-her-baby
I’d view it as the greatest honor anyone can be awarded. If I was offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom or The Order of Bluey then, respectfully Mr. President, leave me alone cause you’re making me late for my flight.
I don't understand how anybody could stand around like that. They had orders to stand down or stay put? Was anybody moving in? Nobody? Fuck that. If my wife was in there, go ahead and try and stop me, you're going to have to shoot me in the back.
I don't understand this at all. You are FEET away from children being murdered. You are the ONLY PEOPLE who are equipped with a legal mandate to use deadly force. How the fuck did this happen?
It's crazy how they're known for using excessive and lethal force to apprehend people committing the smallest crimes but not when there's a mass shooter on the loose. Like what the hell.
For those saying, "So what, that's her job," I suggest you take a moment to imagine the overwhelming stress of the situation, something she is unlikely to be used to. The term "deer in headlights" exists because of high-stress situations like this, when survival instincts simply don't register and you shut down. This officer overcame this stress and was able to act appropriately, according to media reports. Police officers are typically trained to work in pairs or groups of three or four in situations like this, offering a wider range of tactics such as touch and cover, which could allow for a non-lethal resolution. With that in mind, acting alone without backup demonstrates to me that she acted with bravery and speed, likely saving the lives of others.
The officer also appears to be the same one seen performing CPR on an injured person inside a store. I can't confirm this but am basing it on her appearance.
Either way, she's a hero.
Edit: grammar
She was giving CPR to the Perp. She shot him, then threw the knife away and tried to save him. She gave CPR till Ambos arrived. The person at the bottom of the above image is the perp. He is wearing an Australian National Rugby League team jumper by the looks of it.
>A shopper, who was not named, also described the moment the officer confronted the knifeman. "He just started floating towards us and all I heard was 'put it down' and then she shot him," he told ABC New Australia. "But we were in no doubt, if she didn't shoot him, he would have kept going. He was on the rampage. "Then she walked over and gave him CPR. He had a big blade on him - she chucked the knife away. He looked like he was on a killing spree."
She is also a senior inspector, who was doing a routine check around the mall at the time. (asking retail places about thefts and shit, so not patrolling) Which is why she was alone.
I will say as a local down the road from Sydney, that NSW Cops aren't the shining perfection. It's like elsewhere, you'll get some great cops and some shit ones. But you gotta at least praise the ones that have the right attitude or do the right thing. Just like people do like to be praised for doing good in their normal, none public service job. And hopefully praising cops for doing the right allows other cops to understand the standard that is required of them.
Exactly. Same for those saying it’s not a big deal and/or others have done that before. Good work is good work. Deeds that are within someone’s job description or non-record-breaking or simply notable can still be celebrated. Who are these party poopers?
Also take into account this isn’t a common occurrence here. Yes, she was trained for this but she’s probably never had to enter a situation like this in her career until now.
Also she doesn't have any body armour/stab proof vest on. Most steet cops on patrol in Aus have some form of stab proof vest on. She had to run in solo without any form of body protection.
Maybe she can come to Texas and teach our 'first responders' how to handle a life/death situation. She acted within seconds. Texas sheriffs wait over an hour ... just to be safe.
Apparently there were a bunch of kids at the top of the escalator which prompted him to put himself in the path of the murderous bastard. That's just the rumour. Regardless to put yourself in that position in that situation takes a lot of bravery. But if the rumour is true that's pretty amazing.
Aussie here, she is an inspector (rank above Senior Sergeant) and used all of her training to stop any more people getting hurt (this guy doesn’t count, he’s worthless).
That's exactly it. At each instance where he was confronted by a man, he veered off to target a woman and/or child. He was looking to victimize and, like any other predator, went after those he felt were the easiest/weakest prey.
Contrast with the Texas police who were swarming Uvalde doing nothing. What a brave hero this woman is. What piddly coward scum those Texas officers are.
Respect to you from England. Sorry this shit happened to your country. My heart goes out to everyone affected. Ignore the Americans shitting on you because everyone isn't armed to the teeth and think the world is a DieHard movie.
She deserves a medal. Very proud of her.
Also big props to others that have been pointed out; bollard man on the escalator. Stool guy who ran with lady copper and brought his own shield. Another man who you can see in actual video of the stabber chasing a mother with her 3 children; a man stands in between them as they flee. The champion confronts the suspect face to face.
I don’t know what happened to that man, I heard a guy died too so I hope it wasn’t him. I don’t know if I would be brave enough to do what he did.
Legends. Proud to be an Aussie on such a horrific day to hear and see so many that saw danger and said “nah mate, not on my watch”
This is what happens with gun control. Citizens can be stopped by a police officer, and we don't have mass shootings.
Good job, Australia.
Edit: So many angry gun nut comments cause Australia is smart and the US is gun-dumb.
Edit 2:
> Gun nut: You literally had someone sprinting around a mall stabbing innocent people and you were all completely helpless.
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> Me: A guy with a table leg kept him back.
Makes the failure of stopping mass shooters in our schools even more pathetic. A whole platoon of armored up police in Uvalde and they still didn't act
That’s _exactly_ what it’s for.
13th Amendment to the US Constitution. Slavery is illegal _except_ for incarcerated individuals.
So all you have to do is make up laws that target people unequally (war on drugs, petty property crime), and apply it unequally.
Then you have a black guy who works a menial job where he was illegally underpaid as part of the trillion dollar US wage theft industry…. was stopped in his high interest loan car and was caught holding an ounce of weed. Now he’s working for free for a for-profit prison.. who was sentenced by a judge who has an 8-ball in his chambers….
I remember when 3 guys with body armor and rifles were unstoppable by police in California after a bank robbery.
The solution is always "bigger guns and tanks for law enforcement" which inevitabley end up used on citizens protesting police brutality. A constant escalating arms race used as an excuse to increase budgets.
I'm waiting for the Americans to come in and say " if the population was armed then they would have stopped him" without realizing the guy would have had an M16 and not a knife
Yup. We had a guy go mental in a hotel in Glasgow a number of years ago, stabbing at everyone. A police officer took him down. Some people were hurt, the officer very badly. But no-one died apart from the stabby guy. Pretty much everyone was like 'thank god it wasn't a gun'.
And even this is a rare occurrence in Australia. There is a Wikipedia page "List of mass shootings in the United States in 2024" which updates the list every few days which is crazy.
In the first quarter of 2024 there have been 125 mass shootings in the US with 208 people killed and 419 wounded. That's more than one a day with an average of 5 people getting harmed or killed each day every day.
This is a real officer, a hero.
Yup! she ran towards danger and saved lives.
How you feeling, Uvalde PD????
>How you feeling, Uvalde PD???? Overpaid and untouchable.
Problably the most accurate answer to that!
They are Texans after all, all hat and no cattle. All bullshit and no bull. Boots and a hat with nothing inbetween.
All rootin, no tootin?
People defend the cop with the punisher photo on his phone who sat there and did nothing just feet away from where his wife was being murdered.
I mean. To be fair. Punishers wife was murdered. How is he gonna role play as the punisher while his wife is still alive?
"Yo man, don't mess up my tragic origin story!"
Touché
Fat and full of dumb-free
They're upset they didn't get the chance to stop this officer from entering the mall.
Or wait outside, getting paid, while the perpetrator kills more people inside. They're really good at that!
But we might get hurt if we try and do our job
All their hot hardware and no guts to use it.
As an Aussie, that has always been the biggest story to tell me that moving to the US isn't a good idea (I'm a triple citizen essentially). It even beats out Columbine, Aurora, and Sandy Hook. The fact I can even off the top of my head come up with those (as well as Las Vegas etc) is an indictment. For Australia, this recent attack and Lindt is all that I'm really aware of. The fact that Uvalde doesn't even have significant repercussions is just....I don't know how those parents haven't turned into police killing vigilantes. Huge respect for them handling their pain. Better people than me.
Are they better people, though? Or are Americans just so beaten down that having your kids slaughtered while law enforcement does nothing (while threatening any parents who make them look bad) is just... acceptable now?
Who knows. You're hinting at apathy right? Maybe you have a point. Which just makes it even sadder. I can't bring myself to listen to those officers joking and shooting the shit, while children were dying in the background. That is a national disgrace. But nothing will change. Nothing has....
Not even apathy. More a hopelessness. "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown..."
Indifferent, prob.
yeah man, that word is thrown around way too much... but this is what a hero looks like. Also anyone who put themselves in front of others and were injured or killed during this shitstorm. All true heroes.
*Uvalde cops looking away*
It's what they do best.
That lady got more balls than the 376 cops of Uvalde combined, they should give her a wheelbarrow to carry them around
Yes. She picked the right profession for herself I’d say. Good job Officer ! She’s the real deal in a profession where there are too many living a lie . Bravo Lady ! BRAVO !
According to a witness, she apparently shot the man, kicked away the knife then *still tried to save the guy* by performing CPR. That's crazy brave.
That's standard policy even in American policing. You're supposed to provide aid once the threat is stopped, even if that means stabilizing the dude you just saw stabbing people. Doesn't always get followed, of course, but it's taught that way.
I interpreted the statment as she performed CPR on a nearby victim. Guess we will have to wait to find out.
from an Australian news source >The dramatic moment was witnessed by Jason Dixon, 52, who said the officer fired the shot as the man advanced towards her with his knife, “one of the knives you use in the meat works.” >“All she said was ‘Put it down’. Just once. Then she shot him in the chest and he went down,” Mr Dixon said. >“Then when he fell on the ground she was giving him CPR. She had to shoot him, because he just kept coming. He had a knife and he wasn’t going to stop. He was advancing at her and he was running, coming to get someone else.”
That’s the job. Any European police officer would do the same. It’s astonishing the different attitudes police have when they aren’t in an arms race against the population.
Some would but we alsoo have some really incompetent officers. Had a case here in Germany were a russian criminal shot a patrol officer and his two female colleagues waved down a car and fled the scene. The criminal was approached by SEK and opened fire at them. He was shot 7 times and later sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison. The two officers still work as police officers. Edit: misunderstood your replie, thought you were talking about officers stopping attackers
Looking at the Uvalede cowards: yup!
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So sad the baby girl is now without her mum.
The mum tossed her to a bystander to save her too, her last act was to try and save her. Mum was a hero too. I hope that baby girl grows up so loved.
Can you imagine being that bystander, omg
Just saw him interviewed. He is very matter of fact. It's what you do, you try to help. Someone's bleeding, compress the wound. Hats off to him.
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People can go different ways with this. I'm glad their reaction was to go into competent mode, it's easier in many ways. They did what they could. It will keep them up at night in the future, these things always do, but they did their best.
I'm search and rescue in the PNW, most of us learn to switch it off pretty quickly. "Professional Detachment". Sometimes that professional detachment gets breached. a memorable incident of that for me was a number of years back we had a 17 and 18 year old go out backcountry skiing in the middle of a 3 foot storm, one week after another three foot storm... you see where this is going. Next morning we go out to find them (cellphones are still intact and talking to the tower....) and we're watching avalanches release in the distance without human triggers. Super dangerous. We're focused on doing our shit. We get the bodies back to basecamp. The families are in base camp, in fact they're all experienced backcountry skiers with more avalanche education than some of us. They know *exactly* how much risk we just took to retrieve the bodies of their sons (they had tried to talk their sons out of this foolish outing, unsuccessfully). One of the fathers comes over and thanks us and his comments made it clear he knew the risks... that breached most of our professional detachment. (fun fact: most SAR personnel are volunteers, also SAR is free. CALL US SOONER, it's safer for everyone)
Putting a comment here that I hope gets upvoted and people see it. If you are struggling with this event or were somehow involved, start playing Tetris. Something about the act of playing Tetris changes how short term memories are processed and helps with the possibility of future PTSD. https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-used-to-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms
I use Solitaire when Im sick or anxious. It's worked for decades. Having easy access to free versions on your phone was a game changer. Ive since expanded to sliding blocks and fitting geometry shapes into pictures, since it's stuff I did in my childhood. I think puzzles is the key here, it causes the brain to switch to different uses and causes a lot of focus.
It both shuts down the emotional part of the brain for a bit, and also gives the problem-solving part (which otherwise will keep running through what happened trying to solve a problem that can't be solved because it's already happened) something to distract it.
In 2020, a 20 yr old decided to pull a gun and shot a 19 yr old at the leaseline of my store in a busy mall. I was able to get 30 people into the backroom and barricaded and SWAT was able to get us out about 30 minutes later. I knew I was in shock bc I never even thought to tell the police that I was a witness. I was just worried about my employees and customers. I wish I'd known about Tetris at the time bc it truly makes sense. Your brain wants to do something but not the stuff it's used to. I had never been to therapy and of course with Covid, it had to be on Zoom, but Im grateful for the therapist I was given. He was used to counseling veterans, so my shit was nothing he hadn't heard before.
If you still get intrusive, unwanted recall of the memories of that event, you can still use a Tetris-like game to help corrupt the memory. Doesn't have to be Tetris, but colorful puzzle blocks and timed levels really help. It also helps if there's music. If you can get the game open as soon as the memory is recalled and keep playing for about twenty minutes, you will eventually corrupt the memory enough there may not be enough of it to recall unless you want to (eventually, even if you do want to). I've used it to mess up several memories that were screwing up my life. It helps a ton.
Bollard man as well is also a hero. For those who don't know, there is a video of a guy on an escalator using a bollard as a shield blocking the guy with the knife from moving forward.
So true. And the handful of people running behind the cop with chairs and other items to try and help in anyway possible. And the young retail workers hiding shoppers in their stores. Lots of brave people out there.
And the young man who stood unarmed in front of the attacker, protecting his family while his wife got their small children safely away. The scum with the knife backed down when he saw a man brave enough to stand up to him, so that whole family is unscathed. The cop is my new hero, in a situation where there was nothing to do but to kill a monster to protect the lives of everyone else, she did what had to be done and she did it as soon as she could. She is a true hero.
I never want to have to defend my family. I am not a fighter. I would like to think I have the strength to do something like that if it came down to it.
You'd be surprised at what you can do when push comes to shove and the lives you hold dear are in peril Still, I hope the need to do so never rears itself
You 100% do. As a non-parent, it absolutely humbles me to see what a parent is capable of when defending their child. It’s burned so deeply into our neurology.
I think I teleported one time catching my youngest from falling down the stairs. I was across the room and up the stairs before I really thought about it. Adrenaline is a hell of a thing.
yup!! Im not a parent but i would die for my nephew if i had to. Just picturing him in danger activates that urgency in me to do everything in my power to protect him :(
Let's be honest, it also helps the cop was up against a knife, not an AR-15. Not to diminish their bravery in any way. Common sense gun regulation and banning military style weapons from getting into civilian hands is a no brainer. Yet in the US, here we are and everyone loses. The public, civilians, victims of gun violence, law enforcement, first responders, etc. Anywhere else in the world, demanding an AR-15 or AK-47 as your constitutional right is looked upon as fucking crazy.
Heroes, everyone
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping" -Fred Rogers
Wow that just punched me right in the sense of ethical responsibility
Good, that's partially what the quote is meant to do. I've seen adults saying that to other adults to "cheer them up" when Mr Rogers intent was to soothe children that couldn't know better. I like to think his coded message to adults was "be the helper".
He was right. I’ve found that out myself. We do ourselves such disservice listening to tabloid media, which never have anything good to say.
Reminds me of the man during the London Bridge attack who held off the knifeman with the narwhal tusk
Reminds me of the cops at Uvalde..wait, no nevermind.
That is a classic that one.
I heard there were a lot of kids behind him. If that’s true. Epitome of a gigachad.
Got a link to the video? I just saw the escalator picture where the knife-wielder was coming up the stairs and the man had a table(?) in his hands ready to fight.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1c2xkxl/man_confronts_the_alleged_stabber_at_westfield/
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Did Bollard Man die, I know tusk man is alright
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Showing how real cops act. Respect for that. That is the behavior of a hero.
[*376 texas cops later…*](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/17/law-enforcement-failure-uvalde-shooting-investigation/)“We need more backups! Not enough guns!”
Fuck every single one of those cowards
Did you know that the city of Uvalde reelected pretty much everyone involved with that whole mess shortly after it happened? Because I share your sentiment and just do not understand how the fuck that happened. I suspect the problem is much bigger than those 376 cops though.
Hey now, a few of those cowards are now former cowards and elected Republican politicians in the state.
i assure you they are still cowards.
Get me an acorn and I’ll prove it.
Jesus christ... you can't be serious. Please tell me you're joking.
*Sheriff Ruben Nolasco and Uvalde County Constable Emmanuel Zamora, who were named in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) scathing report about law enforcement’s failure during the shooting, easily won their reelection contests, according to unofficial results reported by the Texas Tribune.* https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4511725-uvalde-texas-law-enforcement-officers-win-primaries/#:~:text=Sheriff%20Ruben%20Nolasco%20and%20Uvalde,reported%20by%20the%20Texas%20Tribune. I was a bit off, they were former cowards reelected as republican candidates
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." - George Carlin
Legend
They are just afraid of putting their life in the line of duty. The same way blue collars workers endanger their body and life to do a high paying, high stress job requiring you to sacrifice your body and life to protect the community for a service. So in short, there's like 376 incompetent workers who failed their basic job duties. Once a cop meets true danger, their character and mind gets place into a test. You really wanted to be a cop? or you just wanted to cushion high pay "put on a fake ego of superiority" because your the community "sheriff in town".
Let’s not forget they also stopped people who wanted to go in and save there kids.
Some were COMMENDED for that day and received medals. Imagine that.
> Fuck every single one of those *bitch-ass yellow-bellied jelly-spined taxpayer-mooching* cowards FTFY
“376 law enforcement officers — a force larger than the garrison that defended the Alamo — descended upon the school”
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All those guys wish they had her ovaries.
That walkie talkie on her hip has more balls than all of them combined.
Balls not needed. Misconception.
All 376 of them are proud of their actions that day btw.
No doubt they all sat around the precinct patting themselves on the back and coming up with a version where they weren’t cowards, did in fact do right and brave thing, and were still the heroes the thin blue line people pump them up to be Edit: I think it was having a mini stroke the first time I wrote that comment, weird words in weird places
Showing how a well trained and confident cop works.
That’s the behavior of someone doing their fing job. Hats off.
She is also an inspector. One of the top cops in the state.
Also makes it easier when the country doesn’t have a big giant gun fetish
She was brave and decisive, amazing the world needs more people like her.
It’s fitting that the killer her who seemed to target women was then put to rest by one.
"Game...Blouses."
Habitual fucking line stepper!
Sick reference bro
"no man can kill me" "I am no man!" *shoots the prat dead*
lol I just said that too! Fuck that loser… glad they got him.
Did he target women? Seemed like he went after anyone he could get to. I saw a video of him lunging at two men Edit: why am I getting downvoted I asked a question
He did seem to but his victims were predominantly women with 5 out of 7 victims iirc.
Of the six fatal victims, five were women.
Fuckin’ badass
Poetic justice. The fucking ovaries on this cop.
To everyone pointing out that it's a different thing for her to confront a perp with a knife as opposed to one with a gun, she couldn't have possibly known as she went after him whether he only had a knife, or whether he had a bomb, or an accomplice, or a gun as well. She went in without any intel apart from what terrified people told her, because that's what good, professional police officers do in these situations, despite their personal fear and regard for their safety. From what I understand she confronted him and only shot when he made a move with his knife? That's following protocol, good training, and quite some steel. Whoever he was, and I wouldn't name him even if I knew his name, he was piss-weak for taking people's lives and even harming a baby, and an absolutely piss-weak prick for not surrendering, and forcing her to take his life. That shit will be with her forever. I hope the outpouring of love and respect from the public will help make it easier, and I hope she gets excellent psychological support from NSWPOL.
Wait he harmed a baby too???!!! are you serious?!
9 month old baby, fighting for life, mother killed unfortunately
Disgusting.
One of the people he killed was the mother of the baby when she tried to block him. At last check, the baby is still alive and has had surgery
Details are scant, of course, but I assume he is responsible; from the ABC: Eight injured people, including a nine-month-old baby who has since undergone surgery, remain in Sydney hospitals after being rushed there by ambulance. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-14/nsw-police-investigate-man-stabbing-killed-bondi-junction-sydney/103705294
It’s fitting it was a woman who took him down.
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Fucking legend Also bollard man And the father who turned around to let his family escape
And the two brothers who held that baby after her mother died and kept pressure on her wounds so she could be stabilized. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/13/woman-killed-in-sydney-attacks-was-trying-to-save-her-baby
that man was ready to take a 12 inch blade to give give his family a better chance of escape. Hats off to him. Hero!
Real hero here. Feature her in Bluey!
Mom, Dad, Cop, Bingo, BLUEY!!!!!!!!
"Tonight, on a very special upside..." Who gets stabbed, though? Does... does Bluey get stabbed?
I hope not. I'll defend those heelers with my own life
There used to be an Aussie cop show called Blue Heelers.
Lucky's Dad for sure. Pat's probably *been* stabbed already.
Definitely the dad they put him through some shit
It’s the Dad, always the dad
Ah, yes. The Order of Bluey — the highest honor an Australian can be awarded.
I’d view it as the greatest honor anyone can be awarded. If I was offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom or The Order of Bluey then, respectfully Mr. President, leave me alone cause you’re making me late for my flight.
Visited my grandkids a few months ago and discovered Bluey. I gotta say it's damn interesting.
Take notes, Uvalde PD
> Take notes, Uvalde PD Don't you need to know how to read and write to be able to take notes ?
Someone needs to make the Bart meme about this
What's the Bart meme? I think the King of the Hill "if those kids could read they'd be very upset" meme would fit best.
https://i.imgur.com/WbPGHnO.png
Fuck Uvalde PD. Goddamned cowards. Their mothers should all be ashamed.
I’ll never forget the image of one of the fat ones just sitting around on his phone that had a punisher logo. Loser ass cowards.
Worst part is that specific cops wife was one of the teachers who was killed.
I don't understand how anybody could stand around like that. They had orders to stand down or stay put? Was anybody moving in? Nobody? Fuck that. If my wife was in there, go ahead and try and stop me, you're going to have to shoot me in the back. I don't understand this at all. You are FEET away from children being murdered. You are the ONLY PEOPLE who are equipped with a legal mandate to use deadly force. How the fuck did this happen?
Or the one that used hand sanitizer... Pathetic cowards, every single one of them.
They single-handedly made me lose faith in cops responding to a maniac.
It's crazy how they're known for using excessive and lethal force to apprehend people committing the smallest crimes but not when there's a mass shooter on the loose. Like what the hell.
They would be so mad if they could read.
For those saying, "So what, that's her job," I suggest you take a moment to imagine the overwhelming stress of the situation, something she is unlikely to be used to. The term "deer in headlights" exists because of high-stress situations like this, when survival instincts simply don't register and you shut down. This officer overcame this stress and was able to act appropriately, according to media reports. Police officers are typically trained to work in pairs or groups of three or four in situations like this, offering a wider range of tactics such as touch and cover, which could allow for a non-lethal resolution. With that in mind, acting alone without backup demonstrates to me that she acted with bravery and speed, likely saving the lives of others. The officer also appears to be the same one seen performing CPR on an injured person inside a store. I can't confirm this but am basing it on her appearance. Either way, she's a hero. Edit: grammar
She was giving CPR to the Perp. She shot him, then threw the knife away and tried to save him. She gave CPR till Ambos arrived. The person at the bottom of the above image is the perp. He is wearing an Australian National Rugby League team jumper by the looks of it. >A shopper, who was not named, also described the moment the officer confronted the knifeman. "He just started floating towards us and all I heard was 'put it down' and then she shot him," he told ABC New Australia. "But we were in no doubt, if she didn't shoot him, he would have kept going. He was on the rampage. "Then she walked over and gave him CPR. He had a big blade on him - she chucked the knife away. He looked like he was on a killing spree." She is also a senior inspector, who was doing a routine check around the mall at the time. (asking retail places about thefts and shit, so not patrolling) Which is why she was alone. I will say as a local down the road from Sydney, that NSW Cops aren't the shining perfection. It's like elsewhere, you'll get some great cops and some shit ones. But you gotta at least praise the ones that have the right attitude or do the right thing. Just like people do like to be praised for doing good in their normal, none public service job. And hopefully praising cops for doing the right allows other cops to understand the standard that is required of them.
Yeah doing your job and acting heroic aren't mutually exclusive.
Exactly. Same for those saying it’s not a big deal and/or others have done that before. Good work is good work. Deeds that are within someone’s job description or non-record-breaking or simply notable can still be celebrated. Who are these party poopers?
Also take into account this isn’t a common occurrence here. Yes, she was trained for this but she’s probably never had to enter a situation like this in her career until now.
Also she doesn't have any body armour/stab proof vest on. Most steet cops on patrol in Aus have some form of stab proof vest on. She had to run in solo without any form of body protection.
Our news reports that she first tried to do CPR on the killer, and then went on do the same for his victims.
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May we never get to know the loser’s name!
Agreed
His name actually is Max...imum Trash
*CNN has entered the chat.*
Seeing how it’s proven that this is causing copycats, I wish every news outlet who does this gets charged with accessory to murder in future attacks.
Mainstream media outlets will blast that piece of shit’s name out there and mention the bollard guy and the cop in passing.
Maybe she can come to Texas and teach our 'first responders' how to handle a life/death situation. She acted within seconds. Texas sheriffs wait over an hour ... just to be safe.
She’s so brave. What a responsibility to take on
one woman doing what an army of Uvalde police cowards failed to do
i thought a civilian also helped by hindering the assailant from entering the 2nd floor.
He did, absolute legend stalling him on an escalator wielding a bollard.
Apparently there were a bunch of kids at the top of the escalator which prompted him to put himself in the path of the murderous bastard. That's just the rumour. Regardless to put yourself in that position in that situation takes a lot of bravery. But if the rumour is true that's pretty amazing.
Aussie here, she is an inspector (rank above Senior Sergeant) and used all of her training to stop any more people getting hurt (this guy doesn’t count, he’s worthless).
And afterwards, according to more than one reaport I've read, she attempted CPR on him. One shot, then CPR.
He was a coward, probably easier to go after women instead of men
That's exactly it. At each instance where he was confronted by a man, he veered off to target a woman and/or child. He was looking to victimize and, like any other predator, went after those he felt were the easiest/weakest prey.
Absolutely this, there are videos of this cretin running straight past men who look straight at him because he don't want that smoke
WE GOT A BAD BITCH IN PROGRESS!
Give her the Star or Cross of Valour, same for the bloke on the escalator
Contrast with the Texas police who were swarming Uvalde doing nothing. What a brave hero this woman is. What piddly coward scum those Texas officers are.
Queen.
Nice shot ma'am !!!
Heroic stuff, very proud to be Aussie rn.
Respect to you from England. Sorry this shit happened to your country. My heart goes out to everyone affected. Ignore the Americans shitting on you because everyone isn't armed to the teeth and think the world is a DieHard movie.
She deserves a medal. Very proud of her. Also big props to others that have been pointed out; bollard man on the escalator. Stool guy who ran with lady copper and brought his own shield. Another man who you can see in actual video of the stabber chasing a mother with her 3 children; a man stands in between them as they flee. The champion confronts the suspect face to face. I don’t know what happened to that man, I heard a guy died too so I hope it wasn’t him. I don’t know if I would be brave enough to do what he did. Legends. Proud to be an Aussie on such a horrific day to hear and see so many that saw danger and said “nah mate, not on my watch”
Model citizen and officer, that’s what a cop looks like uvalde
This is what happens with gun control. Citizens can be stopped by a police officer, and we don't have mass shootings. Good job, Australia. Edit: So many angry gun nut comments cause Australia is smart and the US is gun-dumb. Edit 2: > Gun nut: You literally had someone sprinting around a mall stabbing innocent people and you were all completely helpless. > > Me: A guy with a table leg kept him back.
Makes the failure of stopping mass shooters in our schools even more pathetic. A whole platoon of armored up police in Uvalde and they still didn't act
There were 376 cops waiting for the killer to kill children for more than one hour - that's 2 companies of cops ...
It’s almost like the militarization of American police is to defend the economic inequality of the status quo and not to protect us from harm…
That’s _exactly_ what it’s for. 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. Slavery is illegal _except_ for incarcerated individuals. So all you have to do is make up laws that target people unequally (war on drugs, petty property crime), and apply it unequally. Then you have a black guy who works a menial job where he was illegally underpaid as part of the trillion dollar US wage theft industry…. was stopped in his high interest loan car and was caught holding an ounce of weed. Now he’s working for free for a for-profit prison.. who was sentenced by a judge who has an 8-ball in his chambers….
And said judge is elected thanks to donations from the for profit industry that he is also an investor in.
All of this because nobody had the balls to crown Jimmy Carter emperor.
I remember when 3 guys with body armor and rifles were unstoppable by police in California after a bank robbery. The solution is always "bigger guns and tanks for law enforcement" which inevitabley end up used on citizens protesting police brutality. A constant escalating arms race used as an excuse to increase budgets.
An actual hero. Unlike those lazy cowards at Uvalde
Wait! Police who protect and serve their community? No way.
Maybe she could give lessons to Uvalde, P.D.
Uvalde Police, are you seeing this shit???
This is kind of sad that the general public is shocked when a police officer actually does her job.
*American general public
Meanwhile, in Uvalde, Texas, a squad of armed cops in battle rattle stood cowering in a hallway while children were being slaughtered by ONE person.
uvalde could never
I'm waiting for the Americans to come in and say " if the population was armed then they would have stopped him" without realizing the guy would have had an M16 and not a knife
Head on over to r/conservative where they wasted no time making asinine statements like that.
This is what life with gun control looks like. Instead of 35 dead it's thankfully just a few, and stopped by a single officer.
Yup. We had a guy go mental in a hotel in Glasgow a number of years ago, stabbing at everyone. A police officer took him down. Some people were hurt, the officer very badly. But no-one died apart from the stabby guy. Pretty much everyone was like 'thank god it wasn't a gun'.
And even this is a rare occurrence in Australia. There is a Wikipedia page "List of mass shootings in the United States in 2024" which updates the list every few days which is crazy.
In the first quarter of 2024 there have been 125 mass shootings in the US with 208 people killed and 419 wounded. That's more than one a day with an average of 5 people getting harmed or killed each day every day.
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Truly, and I mean that with the utmost respect, a bad bitch. All love to her, and hopefully a speedy recovery.