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Stanley Murphy-Johns

Moment police tasered and arrested terror suspect after two Jewish men stabbed

Body-worn footage of the moment a terror suspect was tasered and pinned to the ground by police after two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green has been released.

The video, released by the Metropolitan Police, shows a 45-year-old Somali-born British national holding a knife as he advanced towards police officers.

Two officers fired Tasers and the suspect, who was wearing a blue puffer jacket and a rucksack, eventually collapsed to the ground.

They could be heard urgently shouting “get down on the ground” and “take the Taser”.

Once the suspect was on the video, one of the officers knelt on top of him, while the other continued to use his Taser and more police surrounded them.

Footage from body-worn cameras shows the suspect being tasered and pinned to the ground as officers tried to pull the knife from his hand (Metropolitan Police/PA) (PA Media)

The officer, still on his feet, repeatedly yelled “drop the knife”, “drop the f****** knife” while the suspect struggled on the floor.

While the suspect was pinned face down in the middle of the road, the officers appeared to aggressively jostle him sounding increasingly panicked.

A plain-clothed man, possibly a member of the Jewish community security team, eventually wrenched the knife from the suspect’s hand.

The suspect then had his hands handcuffed behind his back while still lying in the road, and was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

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