There has been a spike in fatal police shootings across Australia in the past 12 months. Queensland has recorded the highest number of fatalities and tonight’s story recounts the tragic events of one of those shootings.
7.30 has also analysed the data of shootings nationwide that shows Victoria has managed to turn its deadly statistics around. Stephanie Zillman reports.
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As long as the citizens are unarmed and defenceless police and government will continue to take our rights and our lives… A people oppressed
It’s quite scary the amount of police officers I know that are very immature and lack education. Especially some of the younger ones. They are going to find themselves in trouble and that’s a worry. This is in Queensland
The police raided me and told me to pick up the knife I had displayed on my shelf, and when I picked it up to show them, they drew there weapons, if I didn't stop walking towards them, they would have shot me. Looking back, the cops have to deal with alot of drug fuelled people all the time, it's how you approach the police. First impressions, count, even the innocent get mistaken as the perpetrators.
7:05 lol what militariattion of police? This is Australia, our police forces aren't buying surplus from the ADF. This woman is a jester.
Sounds like Luke committed suicide by cop. Perhaps 7:30 might have bothered to ask his girlfriend, or ex-girlfriend as it seems, why he got angry.
Tasers were not brought in for those situations at all. Tasers were brought in to take down unarmed or blunt force weapon offenders. Police carry guns for situations involving offenders with potentially lethal weapons such as knives and guns.
A heavily intoxicated person progressing on police with a knife is not a light hearted situation. What do these people expect police to do, run away? Leave him to potentially hurt someone else? These critics might like to show us all how it's done by putting themselves in harms way with a knife weilding attacker and standing their ground safely.
It is a farce that nowhere in this report did 7:30 even acknowledge the changing societal environment in which police are operating; inside Queensland particularly. SJWs like the morons in this report have made the community increasingly unsafe, and that carries through 10 fold for police.
I feel sad for his parents losing their son, no parent should outlive their child. But their grief is directed at the wrong place. It's unreasonable to blame police for protecting themselves and the public against an armed attacker.
It is a crime in Queensland to carry around a knife in public.
Alcohol is the problem. Unfortunately police have to deal with it everyday and night while we sit at home unaware. Respect for the parents who lost their son.
Dont join police if u are afraid of small knife. This killing should not have happened no matter what. But police do their own investigation and find no fault. We have turned into police state and we keep quite.
SAD FOR THE FAMILY
If there was a real fear for their lives, yet he was one man holding a knife and they where two policemen holding guns, could they not have gone for a leg shot maybe … still wrong in my opinion but at least could of resulted in a non fatal shooting !!!
Then both sides have a chance to prove innocence or guilt ??
I’m confused as to why they felt the need to shoot to kill ??
For the family I am sorry for your loss
I used to be a registered Independent Third Person. In Victoria, if someone is covered under the Mental Health Act, they are required to have an independent third person present during questioning. I remember a case I sat in on, the alleged offender came at two officers with an axe. They didn't shoot him. They didn't taser him. They used deescallation.
The Dad's comments really touched me.
Chia Buon Comrade.
No way diversity caused more crime 🤣🤣
alcohol mixed with bad attitudes should be aware these cowboys with guns…
That's what happens when you pull a knife on police and act belligerent.
He had mental issues because he watched the ABC…
The Victorian police went from light blue uniform to a very dark blue uniform. Since that my respect went down.
Don’t threaten people with knives and you will be fine
I don't understand why this interaction even happened. Or why beat cops carry guns. The only time I've seen gun violence is when a cop put one to my head and screamed that he was going to kill me. I was sitting alone looking through my phone when it happened. Mental health issues are at least as common among police than outside them. Violent bullies are attracted to the protection they get from joining the police. And as for armed gunmen – 90% of gun crime is committed by unlicenced criminals with unregistered guns, which can only be found by investigative work. Which in my experience the police have always refused to do. They only exist for population suppression, and to harvest revenue. But people will take a jackboot to the face and thank the government for stomping on them, so it's probably a lost cause.
Simply you or him. Cop doing his job needs to go home to his family. Intoxicated threat advancing towards them and closing to lethal distance with a Knife is lethal, only option to counter it is a lethal one also. Leg shot won't stop someone sticking a knife in a cops throat or chest! It's very simple. Imagine if cop was your child. It's hard for deceased's family obviously but the cop was well within their rights and did what needed to be done. Shit ain't a movie.
Yeehaww!
If the police need weapons to protect themselves were does that leave your unarmed grandmother
If you don't remove people from the community or provide sufficient care you place the first responders in an impossible position.
Forget about the CFMEU, the Wharfies & other "tuff" union bodies, the police unions are the strongest & best connected politically in the country by far. They ensure their members are protected from prosecution & scrutiny of their on-duty activities is protected by law. Did you know a NSW cop can edit his bodycam footage before showing it to you & you're not entitled to a copy only a single viewing. Is that fair? Not even USA cops are that scared (protective) of their public service work. Why are ours? Because they're out of control, have too much power & a $5bn budget in NSW alone. Our tax dollars should be going to schools & hospitals not govt sanctioned thuggery.
lucky the didnt kill anyone else lol
Sorry for the family loss. Unfortunately, Tasers are not the be-all and end-all when dealing with armed offenders.
The police in Australia need to learn about de-escalation. From what I gather they must be trained to escalate in pretty much any situation -eg the tasing death of a 95 year old great grandmother at Cooma this year. There's something very wrong with the system, where these tragedies occur. Without blaming individuals of any colour or rank I call for reform in training and the philosophy of our police force.
Every time I hear about the police shooting somebody I feel totally powerless, and afterward, when those same police are exonerated, I feel inconsequential, time after time after time. I'm a gun enthusiast, but could never train one upon a fellow human. It's a natural aversion; an instinct that the police academy apparently trains these individual officers to resist.
It's surprising how comparatively frequent police shootings here are compared to many other western countries. From memory, the only other countries in the first world that surpass us for fatal police shootings are Canada and (obviously) the US. Given we have a fairly low crime rate, which continues to decrease, what's going on?
I see them firearms restrictions are working…
Make no mistake, the Australian police force want to be exactly like the usa police. There's a whole swarm of them in the comments trying to manipulate the narrative away from the truth.
crikey