Citizen Constables
There's a nice twist in law enforcement and protection, when two alert, stalwart and responsive men take it upon themselves to recognize and react to an emergency of violence upon a female police constable, and rescue her from what appeared to be imminent death.
Police officers are well trained in the law and personal security which helps them extend security and law and order in the larger area of protecting the public. But there are times when they are themselves the subjects of violent attacks and needful of assistance.
Such an occasion developed in Toronto on Monday morning, a day before the funeral of another Toronto police officer, killed by a homeless man who had taken driving possession of a snow plough and fatally ran down Sergeant Ryan Russell.
In the latest attack on a Toronto police officer, Constable Lane Douglas-Hunt was just finishing up a brief investigation into a minor theft in the downtown area when a man lurking nearby the store she had been checking leaped upon her with a knife, slashing at her neck.
It was her great good fortune, and ours as well, that two men in their 40s became alerted to the attack. Rob Caunter, a municipal public employee, recognized the slight woman in uniform as someone he had seen often in the area, reaching her struggling on the ground with her attacker just as Blair Bater from Saanich had parked his vehicle and jumped into the fray.
Both men were able to restrain the attacker, albeit with difficulty.
Each of the men had witnessed the man stabbing Constable Douglas-Hunt repeatedly, as she desperately attempted to defend herself, sustaining deep wounds to her hands, attempting to protect her neck and face. "She looked like she was in trouble. She kept trying to fight for her life and I intervened and got him down and subdued him", Mr. Bater explained.
As he jumped on the man, Mr. Caunter grasped the man's legs to restrain him from escaping.
"Between the cop and the guy who jumped out of his car, they managed to get him face down on the sidewalk. She was on his left side trying to get his arm and the other guy was on the right side getting the other arm. I had both the guy's legs and was twisting his ankles. I had my foot on him and was trying to do anything to stop him from moving", said Mr. Caunter.
It was later revealed the 57-year-old attacker had a history of violence; it was coincidental that he was at the scene of Constable Douglas-Hunt's brief investigation of a minor theft. It was clear for whatever the motivation involved, that the attacker meant to kill the police officer.
She has survived that attack, following emergency surgery, and contemplation of a long, slow recovery before she can return to work.
But she can count her blessings that two men just happened to be on the scene when she most needed someone responsible and reactive to save her from certain death from yet another man whose purpose was to deliver her to death's door.
Police officers are well trained in the law and personal security which helps them extend security and law and order in the larger area of protecting the public. But there are times when they are themselves the subjects of violent attacks and needful of assistance.
Such an occasion developed in Toronto on Monday morning, a day before the funeral of another Toronto police officer, killed by a homeless man who had taken driving possession of a snow plough and fatally ran down Sergeant Ryan Russell.
In the latest attack on a Toronto police officer, Constable Lane Douglas-Hunt was just finishing up a brief investigation into a minor theft in the downtown area when a man lurking nearby the store she had been checking leaped upon her with a knife, slashing at her neck.
It was her great good fortune, and ours as well, that two men in their 40s became alerted to the attack. Rob Caunter, a municipal public employee, recognized the slight woman in uniform as someone he had seen often in the area, reaching her struggling on the ground with her attacker just as Blair Bater from Saanich had parked his vehicle and jumped into the fray.
Both men were able to restrain the attacker, albeit with difficulty.
Each of the men had witnessed the man stabbing Constable Douglas-Hunt repeatedly, as she desperately attempted to defend herself, sustaining deep wounds to her hands, attempting to protect her neck and face. "She looked like she was in trouble. She kept trying to fight for her life and I intervened and got him down and subdued him", Mr. Bater explained.
As he jumped on the man, Mr. Caunter grasped the man's legs to restrain him from escaping.
"Between the cop and the guy who jumped out of his car, they managed to get him face down on the sidewalk. She was on his left side trying to get his arm and the other guy was on the right side getting the other arm. I had both the guy's legs and was twisting his ankles. I had my foot on him and was trying to do anything to stop him from moving", said Mr. Caunter.
It was later revealed the 57-year-old attacker had a history of violence; it was coincidental that he was at the scene of Constable Douglas-Hunt's brief investigation of a minor theft. It was clear for whatever the motivation involved, that the attacker meant to kill the police officer.
She has survived that attack, following emergency surgery, and contemplation of a long, slow recovery before she can return to work.
But she can count her blessings that two men just happened to be on the scene when she most needed someone responsible and reactive to save her from certain death from yet another man whose purpose was to deliver her to death's door.
Labels: Human Relations, Ontario, Social-Cultural Deviations
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