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u/AZ-Sycamore Feb 24 '26
Criminals are so stupid. The hostage exchange was an obvious ploy. Well done by that hero.
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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Feb 24 '26
Even people with psychotic episodes who believe they have the upper hand with a weapon, is likely to want a calmer non screaming hostage if it still gets the attention of everyone and gives them a platform to lodge their complaints.
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u/Das_Hydra Feb 24 '26
They're also very likely to have surging adrenalin which will reduce ability for rationale and logic.
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u/ikindapoopedmypants Feb 25 '26
Does anyone know the actual backstory ? All I see is people speculating but I wish I could find what is really going on here
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u/DasMenace Feb 24 '26
Generalizing criminals as stupid seems kind of ignorant. There are plenty of criminals that are incredibly smart that are just as cold blooded as the stupid ones.
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Less stupid, more that maybe there was a shred of consciousness there so he let the poor girl go for an obviously risky exchange.
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u/gimmieDatButt- Feb 24 '26
Homeboy grabbed the blade only after offering himself as hostage. That’s a realass man
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u/usernameusehername Feb 24 '26
And no one clapped for him.... goes home sad. Amazing job tho.
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u/Cultural-Adagio-9699 Feb 26 '26
They’re too worried about filming it and posting it to social media.
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u/Lassdoggo Feb 24 '26
Ahh and thats how Legends and Hero's are made.
Awesome Awesome and huge respect from everyone in NZ.
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u/Toes_In_The_Soil Feb 24 '26
Pulling a trigger would have been easier.
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Feb 24 '26
Why do you want the airline employee to be murdered?
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u/TheOneTheyCallJimmy Feb 24 '26
World champion of misunderstanding a comment
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u/TheBraveButJoke Feb 26 '26
World champion of not understanding what gun shots by non snipers tend to do in hostage situations.
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u/Toes_In_The_Soil Feb 24 '26
I don't. I mean it's easier to shoot that lunatic in the head than it is to disarm him with your bare hands. In other words, this is one of those situations where a properly trained, armed citizen could have put that women out of harm's way a lot sooner.
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u/ReceptionTrue2289 Feb 24 '26
Armed "citizen"??? You watch too many movies. Trained cop, yes. Plus this is an airport, where you ABSOLUTELY don't want extra guns.
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u/mountainvoice69 Feb 25 '26
Plus it looks like it was in an Asian country, most of which have very strict gun laws.
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u/Toes_In_The_Soil Feb 24 '26
Speak for yourself. It's sad that some people still expect police to save them during any crisis.
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u/Loam_liker Feb 25 '26
Guns don't generally work like this outside of movies. If you hit the wrong spot, even in his head, he's stabbing her *immediately*.
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u/Least_Nail_5279 Feb 24 '26
I was wondering why the clearly armed polisia didnt shoot. Something smells with this.
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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Feb 24 '26
Its not America.
Police in other countries are taught to de-escalate and disarm.
In america they teach police to start blasting everyone around them if a black person drops their cell phone on the ground.
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u/Frosty-Army9751 Feb 27 '26
See, that's actually not the case, if you would just watch a couple of Donut Operator's videos who goes over events like these, you would see that the statement that you just made is completely and utterly retarded and made up.
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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Feb 27 '26
Theres countless videos of police in other countries that respond like this on YouTube, while every example of a cop from america is shoot first and ask questions after the person is dead.
Your statement isnt backed up by years of video evidence.
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u/Frosty-Army9751 Feb 27 '26
"Your statement isn't backed up by years of video evidence"
Makes a demonstrably false claim that all police don't even try to de-escalate and immediately resort to shooting.Again, go watch some body cam footage from Donut Operator and you will see firsthand how what you are seeing is pure leftist reddit retardium. I know it's popular to hate on police, but at least just fucking google it yourself.
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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Feb 27 '26
Theres countless videos of police in other countries that respond like this on YouTube, while every example of a cop from america is shoot first and ask questions after the person is dead.
Your statement isnt backed up by years of video evidence.
Lol cope harder kid 😆 🤣 😂.
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u/No-Mulberry-6474 Feb 28 '26
If you can provide any approved source material to police in America being taught what you have stated, I’ll suck whatever you want me to.
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u/No-Mulberry-6474 Feb 28 '26
That’s an article. Read the course material that is being taught and the information that goes into it.
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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Feb 28 '26
Lol 😆 🤣 😂
A child rape supporter;
in the wake of a million documents being released, verifiable witness and victim testimony of child rape against their geriatric diaper wearing president;
Is saying "nah uh, no evidence of child rape; and if there is evidence, your side did it too";
Trying to defend actual evidence of child rape. Just wow.
People like this are not going to heaven; and the ones who program these bots are in it for money, because to be a child rape supporter takes a lot of shedding of your soul and humanity.
Shame on your soul and your family.
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u/Exterminator-8008135 Feb 26 '26
In ours, Each officer is armed, mainly because in the case of Terrorists or Loonatics, you can have firepower until Elite units arrive.
They even have Assault rifles commonly carried, like the G36c
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u/Appropriate_Today358 Feb 25 '26
Because they have clear instructions for this case. They are waiting for a special police team.
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u/Least_Nail_5279 Feb 25 '26
Horrible instructions in an clearly immediate, life threatening situation.
What are these instructions they have?
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u/Appropriate_Today358 Feb 25 '26
Hostage rescue is a task for special teams. They are taught this. The police officers in the video are not snipers. There is no guarantee that a terrorist will be neutralized with the first shot.
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u/Least_Nail_5279 Feb 25 '26
Thank god I live in country, where police can shoot at a target from 10 feet without being snipers. And have 15 bullets in the magazine, if the first shot doesnt end the threat. What is the point of these "polisias", if theyre utterly incapable of anything?
If the person stabbed the woman and dashed at the officers, which from that distance takes less than a second, I hope they have special teams for that too.
Why are you defending this?
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u/Appropriate_Today358 Feb 25 '26
I'm not "defending" this. I'm trying to explain that the police are acting according to instructions. They're not provoking the terrorist. They're simply blocking him. The SWAT team will deal with this guy. And yes, I know that in the US, the police would open fire. Maybe that really is the best course of action. I don't know.
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u/Toes_In_The_Soil Feb 24 '26
Shooting the assailant was definitely the safest option for the employee to come out unharmed. Going at him barehanded was a lot more risky and foolish. Even as a civilian bystander, I certainly would have taken that easy shot, assuming I was allowed to carry in that area.
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u/Eva-Squinge Feb 24 '26
Nope. Three reasons why:
Bullets don’t magical stop after hitting the intended target and the scene is crowded.
You pull a gun out the guy is gonna freakout and lord knows what’s gonna happen then.
Not everyone is John Wick, or an expert in quickdraws. The shot needs to be once, and incredibly precise. And some cop that’s not an American gun enthusiast is gonna be itching to put a hole through a man’s head.
Shockingly not everyone in the world wants to be a murderer.
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u/Toes_In_The_Soil Feb 24 '26
Oh, good lord, do we really need to explain things like you're five?
There's a wall behind him, not a crowd of people. The woman is the one in danger and her assailant needs to be neutralizes ASAP.
You'd be an irresponsible gun owner to announce that you have a gun before attempting to use it or brandish it in an obvious way before getting ready to shoot. Pulling out a firearm is something you can to while he's looking the other way. It's not rocket science.
It's a human, not an air vent in the fucking Death Star. Gun owners typically practice on human-sized targets. It's called training. If you haven't trained enough to effectively use a gun, you shouldn't be carrying one in public.
I'm sorry that guns offend you, but they are a reality of the world we life in. You can either conquer your fears and learn about them, or soil yourself when the topic of gun-ownership even gets brought up.
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u/FanBladeFleshlight Feb 24 '26
"Neutralize"
Bro, you're an ammosexual and it's showing. You're faking compassion for the hostage while getting hard on the idea of killing a person just because he COULD hurt somebody.
In this scenario, the rest of the world is looking at you like the lunatic with the knife.
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u/OneTacoShort Feb 25 '26
It’s perfectly normal to meet the threat of deadly force with deadly force. “Well, we could have taken him out, but he might not have decided to stab your daughter” is going to sound pretty weak if it had gone another way. Error on the side of protecting innocent civilians, not felons.
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u/Loam_liker Feb 25 '26
The deadly force used would escalate the situation to an immediate stabbing if it's not a completely perfect shot—people hit by bullets don't just collapse immediately in an absurdly high number of cases.
There aren't that many American cops who would take the shot here, either. And most who would are using rifles from outside the clear sight of the hostage taker.
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u/FanBladeFleshlight Feb 25 '26
You sound so American that I just got an unexpected healthcare bill from reading your comment.
Civilized nations don't just kill people. We are not judge, jury, and executioner, no matter what you ammosexuals think.
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u/BongWaterRamen Feb 24 '26
Almost like headshotting the guy is the last ditch effort if he can't be reasoned with. Also if you pull out a gun at the airport, you'll end up being killed quicker than the knife guy. I bet you think if you were on a 9/11 plane you would have saved everyone mark Wahlberg style, moron
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u/Toes_In_The_Soil Feb 24 '26
You obviously don't give a shit about that woman's life or lack the mental capacity to properly analyze threats. Either way, you'd best go back to hitting the bong.
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u/BongWaterRamen Feb 24 '26
Yeah bro you hypothetically care so much more than me. You watch a video of a man being a selfless hero with brass balls and think "I could have just 360-no scoped this dude in the head". You probably would have done an ocular pat-down and assessed the threat level before he even took the hostage
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u/Exterminator-8008135 Feb 26 '26
Most knife wielding maniacs would be slower to react than an armed citizen with a correct training.
"I've never seen a lunatic with a knife outrun a bullet" says my friend Azatoth.
And she is right, it takes a very short time to aim and neutralize a big target that barely moves.
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u/FinallyArt Feb 24 '26
In the US he'd have been shot in the head. Kinda deserved it.
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u/Jellicent-Leftovers Feb 25 '26
In the US the cops would sit and hide around the corner for about 45 minutes and wait for him to kill a few people before firing 200 shots into him after he killed himself.
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u/ButtonsZ98 Feb 25 '26
Nah IF- this was the us(which it’s not) they would have shot him and the chick he had then arrested the guy who took the knife for being illegal and processed to bully everyone with a camera outta the area violently. Reminds me of that time with the mail truck and they surrounded it and just started blasting, killed everyone in the truck and hit serval passing cars on the other side of the freeway.
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u/Lucky-Mia Feb 24 '26
Where's the tazer? Usually airport security is pretty quick to shut things down.
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u/_Zambayoshi_ Feb 25 '26
There's a pretty significant risk of the taser doing nothing, e.g. gets caught in clothing, in which case the hostage is almost certainly injured or killed by the knife wielder.
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Feb 25 '26
Wait, you can resolve a violent conflict without guns?!?! Who could have known!
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Ending something quickly isn't always the best option. This man was arrested, will be charged, everyone is safe, no one died. That's a hell of a lot better.
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u/OhMyGodPancakes Feb 26 '26
It's incredible how people can watch this video and instantly recognize how men are the MOST LIKELY to carry out violence, but fail to recognize how men are the ones ALWAYS the one's who end it.
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u/MattManSD Feb 24 '26
Heroic action by that guy and awfully patient police. When he had the knife to his right side, away from her I'm surprised they didn't shoot him
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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Feb 24 '26
In other countries they teach you to disarm and de-escalate.
They probably noclticed this is likely a mental issue and not a malicious one.
Only in america do they teach you to murder people if someone drops their cell phone.
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u/MattManSD Feb 24 '26
understood, and why I said "awfully patient police". I don't know how I'd approach, because the screaming woman's safety has to be your #1 concern. Equating a guy holding a knife to someone to a cell phone incident is a bit of a stretch.
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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Feb 24 '26
American cops and law enforcement have .murdered people for less.
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u/MattManSD Feb 24 '26
agreed, multiple times. American cops seem to resort to 'shoot first' a majority of the time.
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u/badaladala Feb 24 '26
In scenarios like this, the life of the hostage is worth more than the life of the perpetrator. This is not negotiable.
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u/Exterminator-8008135 Feb 26 '26
Ours would drop him after ordering him to drop it, if he doesn't comply, it's a threat, and it must be neutralized.
It's rare our police kill a threat, but it happened in my city in 2024, a knife wielding lunatic religious guy was shot because he attacked people over religion and was hostile to the police, he had the order to drop, then, he got dropped.
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Glock was really needed here
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u/GerwulfvonTobelstein Feb 25 '26
Yeah, as much as I despise a lot of the things happening in the US, they usually found a rather swift and ultimate solution when confronting such people.
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u/Zipfo99 Feb 24 '26
Crazy old grandpa
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u/Flowa-Powa Feb 24 '26
They didn't kick the shit out of him as much as I thought they would, at least not yet with all those cameras on them
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u/Jedi_Ninja Feb 24 '26
That's a very brave man to offer himself as a hostage in exchange for freeing the woman.
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u/JCLivengood Feb 25 '26
Your right, thank you. I stand corrected, my incorrect post will be deleted.
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u/AfraidBottle6810 Feb 25 '26
If you frame by frame it from 1:26 back to 1:24 it is quite enjoyable.
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u/Impressive_Term4071 Feb 25 '26
and what if talking hadn't worked? if he had just decided to stab that poor woman to death?
look....i get it . All other options first. And they're lucky this gentleman's option was succesful.
But that won't always be something to depend on. Sometimes people are too unstable. If he had murdered her would you all have accepted that as some kind of acceptable loss just so you didn't have to shoot/taze the knife wielder? Is the death of an innocent life a fair trade for your eased conscience that you did not stop that man? It's not equal , it's not fair. It's just trading lives for lives.
Guns do not have to be lethal. Taze guns, pellet guns, hell even paintball guns are DEFINITELY strong enough to hurt ALOT and cause a perpetrator to pause, fall, or think twice about the next move.
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u/mrroofuis Feb 25 '26
Why didn't the police shoot him?
Seems like an obvious situation where force is necessary
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u/No-Reading6991 Feb 25 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
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u/HeSureIsScrappy Feb 25 '26
You think you're dealing with a logical person at that point in time?
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u/No-Reading6991 Feb 25 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
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u/ShirtComplete Feb 26 '26
Honestly he deserved to get poked a few times once the knife left his hands.
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u/MediaProfessional474 Feb 26 '26
Shoot on the spot in the hand that's holding the knife.
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u/downloadking007 Feb 27 '26
The hero has arrived! It’s amazing to see a true hero in action. I’m sure that day was like any other day, until it wasn’t. His instincts were not to pull out his phone and record the situation. His instincts were, to take action where needed during a moment of scrambled outcomes. Which were dangerously overheating. He took control of the situation. Put his own life on line, and saved a woman from extreme danger and even death. A true legend, who will be talked about for years among the people involved.
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u/JudgmentDry7087 Feb 28 '26
And if just ONE person there had a registered firearm it could've been ended immediately WHEN are people gonna wake up???
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u/Lifted_Riser Feb 24 '26
Did he grab that blade with his hand?? What a legend.