Real life "Tueller drill."

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Recent long thread on knives elsewhere, this story may be of interest.

Youtube dashcam. Two and half minutes of fairly boring car chase (apparently the office is a K-9 cop), then 10 seconds of excitement. (I have no luck embedding videos in threads, it seems.)
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Story
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Picture of knife after the fact (and appearance of "21 foot rule") here: http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/crime/21-f ... -of-knives" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sysnopsis:

Some kind of arson incident in wee hours. Car chase across town. Suspect plows car into dirt bank. Police pull up right behind him, yell at him to come out for about 8 seconds. Driver door flies open, suspect bails out, rushes officer (just off dashcam to left), stabs or slashes him in face. Officer does not shoot before being wounded. Police fire 10 shots, get seven hits (don't know if wounded officer ever got a shot off). Suspect down, but still resisting -- police taser him. Suspect and officer go to hospital, suspect dies, officer released next day.

By my analysis, from the time the door comes open until the suspect disappears off camera to the left (and presumably wounds the officer immediately) is a bit less than four seconds. Counting from when the suspect's foot hits the ground, the suspect covers the distance in two seconds or less, and that's with a slight stumble at the beginning, a stutter step at the other end, and a bright light in his face.

Officer very lucky.