Mobile phone footage captures the moment police try to fight off a machete-wielding man with a wheelie bin.
The video shows a pot-bellied man in a floral shirt violently swinging the two-foot blade in the air and screaming at armed officers in Brockley, south London.
As he lunges forward towards the police, one officer uses the wheelie bin as a makeshift shield, protecting himself from the knife.
A colleague of the officer instantly rushes to his rescue by hitting the man on the back with a baton, but is forced to retreat as he lashes out with the blade.
The stand-off eventually ends when more than 30 officers with riot shields overwhelmed and arrested him.
A Metropolitan police spokesman said: The man was detained under the Mental Health Act and taken to a secure medical facility where he remains.
Watch video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...le-machete-wielding-man-with-wheelie-bin.html
The video shows a pot-bellied man in a floral shirt violently swinging the two-foot blade in the air and screaming at armed officers in Brockley, south London.
As he lunges forward towards the police, one officer uses the wheelie bin as a makeshift shield, protecting himself from the knife.
A colleague of the officer instantly rushes to his rescue by hitting the man on the back with a baton, but is forced to retreat as he lashes out with the blade.
The stand-off eventually ends when more than 30 officers with riot shields overwhelmed and arrested him.
A Metropolitan police spokesman said: The man was detained under the Mental Health Act and taken to a secure medical facility where he remains.
Watch video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...le-machete-wielding-man-with-wheelie-bin.html
Weird.
