A stand-off in a suburban street between an armed man and police is captured on video, with officers pointing their weapons and ordering him to surrender before he is knocked down by a police car.
A stand-off in a suburban street between an armed man and police has been captured on video, with officers pointing their weapons and ordering him to surrender before he is knocked down by a police car.The incident is being investigated by Tasmania Police's Professional Standards unit
"We just heard all these police cars arrive and then we poked our head out the front of the shop and a man was coming out of the chemist with a knife," he said.The incident was captured in a video posted to social media.Mr Willcock said it was"confronting" The chemist the man had allegedly been in minutes before is also a methadone dispensary, but Mr Willcock said they had never had this sort of issue before.Detective Inspector Troy Morrisby said the police had given the man appropriate instructions to drop the knife and to surrender.
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