There is no detail as to who this man was in this article or any other about this incident. It may just be some madman who attacked police. Or it could be another jihad attack, and another media whitewash of the motives and identity of the attacker.
The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….
“The moment police officers take down a man as he viciously attacks them with a sword on Upper Chorlton Road,” by John Scheerhout, Manchester Evening News, March 25, 2018:
Shocking video shows the moment police officers take down a man with a sword.
It shows the knifeman, 23, running from an alleway with a 3ft sword before being confronted by uniformed officers.
He lashes out and injures at least two officers before being disarmed, Tasered and arrested.
One officer is in hospital with serious injuries. They are not thought to be life-threatening.
The drama happened on Upper Chorlton Road in Whalley Range shortly before 3pm on Sunday.
Upper Chorlton Road was closed this afternoon as GMP started an investigation.
A witness told the M.E.N. they saw two police officers ‘bleeding quite heavily’ following the incident.
Another resident, Haroon Altaf, 34, who captured the incident on his mobile phone, said: “I saw a man running across the road with what seemed to me to be a 3ft sword. Police were everywhere.
“He had run into somebody’s front garden and these police officers dragged him out but he’s gone for the officers. They were hitting him but you can see from the video he is still attacking them when he’s on the floor.
“I think the officers did quite well. They were very professional. It’s a shame they got hurt in the process. What they did was good.
“One of the ladies passing by was quite shaken up. She couldn’t believe it had just happened.”
Another resident, who declined to be named, said: “I came out of the shop and I could hear shouting. The coppers just Tasered the guy.
“I could see two of the coppers were bleeding quite heavily. One had blood on his face. I could see the machete on the ground. The man was on the floor crying and shouting….
Z says
If it’s not a gun it’s a knife, if it’s not a knife it’s a rock, and if it’s not a rock it is simply someone bigger than you. Banning guns doesn’t stop violence
Kay says
That’s right. We’re reading articles about cooking oil and vehicles and kilns and rapes.
Evil does what it always does: takes what was created good and twists it.
mortimer says
The police forces should all buy NECK-DEFENDERS so the cops can DEFEND THEIR NECKS from Muslims who take the Koran LITERALLY!
Undaunted says
Bullets work better than neck-defenders. Bullets work each and every time they’re properly used.
tom parry says
I’d rather that radical muslims or anyone can not buy machine type guns. Less people may die if he has a rock!!!
Engough is enough we will vote you NRA moneygrabbers out
Don says
NO, You Won’t !!! But keep trying princess !!!
gravenimage says
Wait–you read a story about someone attacking police with a sword in Britain, and you blame the NRA?
Jake says
This is not about moneygrabbers or about the NRA. It’s about the right to defend yourself, your country, your neighbors, your loved ones and everyone around you.
This is not a problem about guns, machine-, automatic, or otherwise. The problem is about how people use or abuse weapons, and I need not repeat what others have tried to explain to you: That it isn’t the weapons who maim and kill, it is people, it is certain people and it is these certain people we need to deal with, not the guns or other weapons.
Disarming a population only means you get a country where only criminals are armed and where the population knows they’re helpless. I assure you, helplessness does not make good and decent people. It makes deceitful, selfish and self absorbed people who can never be trusted to help or defend one another. I know because I live in a country where only criminals have weapons….criminals – and Muslim immigrants, because the police is afraid of enforcing the law in their neighborhoods.
You see, the police officers were also brought up as disarmed citizens until they became police officers, and being helpless since early childhood is something that sits deep inside a person. It breeds a certain ugly kind of fear that doesn’t leave you because you suddenly have arms and power.
So no, never, NEVER disarm a population!!
Weapons do NOT kill. People do! – But weapons can protect you against those who would otherwise easily kill you because those others do not lay down their weapons just because a law passed by a government they don’t respect says they aren’t allowed to own or use those weapons. You have to wake up, ma’am!…
Enough said (for now).
don vito says
Will you first change the Constitution? Or just make it an illegal law?
don vito says
Hey Don, maybe make murder illegal? You think Tom Parry ever thought of that one?
james collins says
just another follower of his “holy”book, commanding him to do such a thing anyone remember Lee Bigby?
Joe Creho says
Just another Sunday afternoon in the New Britain. (OBVIOUSLY, nothing to do with Islam.)
Stay tuned.
Jayell says
Yes, just a normal British Sunday afternoon. The late great British comedian Tony Hancock had a radio show in the 1950’s which included an episode about a typical British Sunday of the time. Total boredom. You could just sense how much they would have loved to have got out there, hacking a few unarmed police officers to pieces, or dragging a few pregnant women across the ground, or drugging and raping young girls coming out of the local Parish Church (assuming they hadn’t already torched the place)…..all so typically British!
Jayell says
Just a thought. In the script of this particular episode the characters talk about Sunday as ‘a day of rest’, but apart from that there is absolutely no mention of God, Jesus, churches, vicars, the Bible, or anything religious. This radio series (Hancock’s Half Hour) was quite brilliant in that it is thought to reflect life and the attitudes of the time. In which case, and taking into account all the other social evidence, one has to question the extent of any ‘spiritual vacuum’ that is constantly quoted as giving islam space to grow in the UK. – perhaps it never really existed, and therefore the only agents responsible for the growth and increasing influence of the ‘religion of peace’ in the UK would be the imported demographic elements traditionally associated with it, which would only be a small percentage of the total. So where’s the ‘democracy’ in this ‘religion’ claiming to run the show?
Eric jones says
Its to bad the police did not use guns and shoot him.
Eric
balam says
Best solution would be to throw these ANIMALS out of the country along with their families.You will never find a GRATEFUL SNAKE!!!
kouldb says
Please don’t insult the animals. They don’t behave this way.
Michael Copeland says
Ordinary British police do not carry guns. Only the special armed units have guns.
don vito says
Need more of the latter and less of the former.
Don says
It’s Obvious England is in it’s Death Throes, You have waited to long & Your Government is doing it’s best to DESTROY Your Beautiful Country. I Kinda liked England before it became Britanistan !!!
Sentinel says
Coincidentally in Glasgow a car was driven at a group of young girls, injuring one severely, in what the police have described as ‘attempted murder’.
Strangely enough the police have stated that it wasn’t a terrorist act, though no one has been arrested yet. Presumably this is because no Muslim has ever been reported to use a vehicle as a weapon – have they ?
shortfattexan says
Wouldn’t September 11, 2001 count as using a vehicle?
Bacherbazistan says
Part & parcel of living in a modern city.
gravenimage says
That’s what Muslim London Mayor Sadiq Khan says.
Michael Copeland says
A sword. Previously there have been bombs, knives, guns, improvised explosive devices, vehicles aimed at pedestrians, and other kinds of attack. Add to that a nationwide pattern – campaign – of raping of underage girls, aggressive creation of no-go-zones, attacking and sometimes killing lone males, even schoolboys. What can this possibly be called?
The British government is determined never to suggest that an ideology is at war with the British.
don vito says
Ya, it take about 20 years for moslems to develop their prized weapon systems.
mortimer says
The cops need an ANTI-MUSLIM chain mail to go over the head and neck, because this sort of attack is MANDATED by the Koran.
Message to POLICE: Muslims consider the Koran the EXACT, ETERNAL, PERFECT message from Allah. Muslims believe they MUST take the Koran literally and act on it.
If POLICE have not read the Koran and studied it, they are PROFESSIONALLY UNPREPARED to deal with Muslims.
Hari Singh says
In NYC the NYPD police would have shot him, in Texas passersby would have shot him.
The UK police are no doubt brave but it is unreasonable to expect them to face armed terrorists with batons and tasers.
gravenimage says
Video from UK: Man attacks police officers with three-foot sword
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Glad the police promptly took him down. I wonder what he was doing wandering around people’s back gardens? A few years ago, a Muslim with a machete beheaded a grandmother in her garden.
don vito says
maybe looking for a goat, or if thirsty a camel.
Michael Casmer says
I think we should have young people stage a music concert for “Save our Lives” and ban swords
MFritz says
“tasered and arrested”… and now he gets a pat on the back and will be back on the street in a fortnight because UK justice is too afraid of being called “racist”?
Deary me, just imagine what police PROPER would have done if he attacked them in this way. No injuries on their side that’s for sure.
james collins says
just another follower of his “holy”book, commanding him to do such a thing anyone remember Lee Bigby?
james collins says
Rigby….sorry
stephen burgess says
I DO HOPE THEY DID NOT HURT THIS POOR CONFUSED FRIGHTENED YOUNG MAN IF THEY UPSET HIM OR CAUSED HIM ANY HARM THEY SHOULD GIVE HIM AS MUCH MONEY NOW BEFORE THEY GET SUED . NEXT YEAR HE COULD BE THEIR BOSS. WE NEED A LOT MORE NICE YOUNG MEN JUST LIKE HIM A TRUE ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY . ASK OUR MPs IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME.
kouldb says
Britain, along with the rest of Europe & the west has turned into a perpetual war-zone, wage by endless streams of Islamic extremists. Yet the left are worried about their human rights instead of their own. You coudn’t make it up.
don vito says
moslems have a name for it, you probably have heard it or know it. Dar al Harb. Imagine, moslems have a name for something they have been doing since 622CE. Land of War. Sort of describes things rather well, no? You’d think our esteemed elites would know of such a thing. But maybe they believe the pope.
Brother Charles says
Now look at this you Americans , BRITISH BARE ARM POLICE DISABLE MAN WITH SWORD, .Just look at the NO ARMOUR they are not wearing , and there is only about 5 of them NOT 15 COP CARS , FULL OF ARMOURED EX-FOOTBALLERS . They said a tazer HAD to be used ,was not used indistcrimatley and certain not 15-20 times Has with USA COPS ,Take a lesson from a police force that do not CARRY GUNS .
WPM says
Yes and two police officers got hurt badly in this incident they could have been killed ,it would have been tragic if no police officer were hurt badly and the mad hatter Sword waving Islamic were shot dead??The idiot Islamic who ran people over in London on that bridge and killed a cop who did not have a side arm the Islamic was taken down by an arm police officer protecting “government officials”. Yes we should stop having police with side arms it works great in England ,more dead cops for PC policy .
gravenimage says
Spot on, WPM.
don vito says
True, but what if, and I’m just imagining now, what if it were a 5 ton lorry? 5 cops wouldn’t help. Lorry’s have been used as weapons in Britain, no? Police should be prepared for any eventuality, again no?
don vito says
Don, the British police did offer up their daughters to criminals, no? Because the police were afraid Don. Of what Don? Not a man with a sword? No, Don a word. A word, Don? Yes, Don, a very strong and POWERFUL word, Don. Just a word, one word Don? Yes Don, five or fifteen unarmed or armed police couldn’t overcome. Well for God’s sake what was the word that the whole British police were afraid of?…….RACIST……DOOOOOONNNNN.
infidel says
Mad Muslim animal should be put down immediately
infidel says
Has anyone in their right mind ever wondered where the rat ISIS chief Baghdadi is right now? As far as I’m concerned , he has done another Osama… And if U look deep enough in Pak, U will find him in that Islamic garbage can of a nation..
supatrumps says
surely there will be a day when the country wakes up from it’s liberal leftie head in the sand slumber,perhaps then the dreggs will be drained from the country and perhaps free speech will return and politicians and the media will tell it like it really is, but perhaps not, too afraid of being called racist I suppose.It’s time to get rid of the same old headless chickens and vote for a political party that cares about this country and the indigenous people— FOR BRITAIN.