HackerTube.dev

UK Cops Disarm Man Wielding a Machete | Firsthand | CBC

CBC · 1.1M views · 2016-08-02 · 1:49

Open on YouTube ↗

If playback is restricted in your region, try opening the original video. Use Mark watched to add it to your marked videos.

Overview

A two-minute CBC Firsthand clip showing UK police surrounding and capturing a distraught man holding a machete, then taking him to a hospital. It is an excerpt from the documentary Hold Your Fire.

On Hacker News

Cited in policing debates as an example of de-escalation and subduing an armed suspect without guns.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2019–2023

Topics

Law, policing & justice
Search by tags
policinguk policede-escalationnon-lethal force

What people said

ceejayoz · 2023-03 · Reference

> if you want to enforce the law for dangerous and violent people, doesn’t it seem reasonable you’ll need at least equally if not more dangerous and violent people to do so? No. There are other ways. For example, mobbing with massively superior numbers, resulting in no harm to anyone, and a suspect getting the hospital care they needed: [VIDEO]

Read the original HN comment ↗
throw0101a · 2022-07 · Reference

In most other countries, training encourages the use of lethal force as a last resort. In Germany (pop. 84M), in 2015, a total of 101 rounds were discharged by police for the entire year: * [LINK] How the UK police dealt with a machete-wielding individual: * [VIDEO]

Read the original HN comment ↗
mrsuprawsm · 2021-12 · Reference

There’s a fair number of videos from eg the UK where they do exactly this. The usual playbook seems to be: get a few people distracting the guy from the front, and another few rush them from the back whilst distracted and hit them with batons or just jump on them. Or just distract them for a long while and wait for more backup and people with shields. [VIDEO] It takes a bit of effort and coordination but is obviously massively preferable to being executed on the spot by the state.

Read the original HN comment ↗

Sources

Video by CBC, played through YouTube.

Data and selection notes

HN summaries and labels may contain AI errors. HN dates refer to discussions, not video publication.

HN Library: HackerTube export (2026-10-31) and open-index/hacker-news. Upstream summaries and classifications may contain AI errors.

Views, duration and playback status refresh separately from the published catalog. When an update fails, existing data remains visible.

Selection checks
  • SaaS & AI candidates: Topic keywords do not match
  • Editor-approved picks: Editorial review is required

Rule matches identify candidates. They do not guarantee video quality or financial results.

About the library and its sources