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When Police Yell ‘Drop the Knife,’ Guess What Happens If You Don’t?

Posted on | November 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

Antonio Estrada, 26, has been charged with arson, assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest in connection to a series of incidents that ended with San Francisco cops shooting Estrada.

Shortly before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, San Francisco 911 started getting calls about a fire in an apartment building on Ellis Street. An evidently deranged Estrada used gasoline to start a fire, then began attacking people with a screwdriver and a frying pan. Did I mention he was deranged? A little more than an hour later, 911 started getting calls about “male subjects fighting in the area of Market and 5th Streets,” about four blocks from the Ellis Street arson location. Estrada was captured on cellphone video fighting with three men. Police arrived at the scene, yelled at Estrada to drop the knife and, alas, he did not.

 

We have previously examined what happens to people who don’t comply when police yell “drop the gun,” and it’s pretty much the same thing with knife-wielding psychotics, the only difference in this case being that Estrada has so far survived being shop by cops, although his injuries were “life threatening.” If he recovers, he’ll face felony charges. The headline at San Francisco CBS affiliate KBCW-TV calls Estrada the “Victim of Officer-Involved Shooting,” but he was a victim of nothing but his own craziness. As you know, Crazy People Are Dangerous.




 

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  1. News of the Week (November 29th, 2020) | The Political Hat
    November 30th, 2020 @ 2:55 am

    […] When Police Yell “Drop the Knife,” Guess What Happens If You Don’t? Antonio Estrada, 26, has been charged with arson, assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest in connection to a series of incidents that ended with San Francisco cops shooting Estrada. […]