Video: City police officers arrested a man who attacked them with a spear with chairs

An unusual event was recorded this Thursday afternoon in the square Ravines of BelgranoOr eight members of the Buenos Aires Municipal Police they staged a confrontation with chairs with a man who attacked them with a stick. The event occurred around 11 a.m., on Sucre and 11 de Septiembre streets. Two officers were injured.

According to police sources detailed at GlobeLiveMediathe officers of Neighborhood police station 13 A They arrived on the scene after being summoned by the Emergencies, alerted by a subject that insulted passers-by who were walking in the neighborhood.

Noticing the presence of police, the man took a wooden stick on the gazebo in the square, broke it against the ground and started throwing lunges with the tip toward the troops, injuring two of them. Immediately, officers surrounded the assailant and began to hit him with chairs to reduce it and stop the attack.

The man was arrested and charged with qualified threats and bodily harm, with the intervention of the Tax Unit of the Northern Zone of Flagrancia, in charge of Norberto Brotto.

After the attacks, one of the officers suffered injuries with abrasions to his head and neck, which was why he had to be transferred to Pirovano Hospital to perform X-rays, while another of the officers was diagnosed with minor abrasions after being attended by SAME doctors, although without the need for transfer to a medical center.

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The event occurred a few days after the crime of Maribel Nelida Zalazarthe municipal police officer who was assassinated with two shots while serving in the Retiro de la C-Line metro, in the hands of Oscar Gustavo Valdez.

Zalazar, 35 and mother of two, died around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Churruca hospital, where she was treated in a shock ward and operated on to try to save her life. She was killed with her own service weapon when she wanted to put an end to an argument that broke out between a man who was in the central hall and a worker from the EMOVA company. The woman introduced severe chest and neck injuriesin addition to the left lung compromised by the impact of the bullet.

Meanwhile, Valdez, arrested for killing the officer, was investigated this Thursday noon by the judge Martin Peluso, in charge of the file. In his statement, the defendant refused to answer the magistrate’s questions, although, according to sources in the file, GlobeLiveMedia, he admitted to shooting the woman’s gunbelieving that the official “it was someone else.”

In recent days, the crime of Zalazar has reignited the debate on the implementation of Tasers in the police, a measure that has received the support of the Minister of Security of Buenos Aires, Sergio Berni, the chief of staff of Buenos Aires, Felipe Miguel, and the Minister of Justice and Security of the City -currently on leave-, Marcelo D’Alessandro.

“The Taser Talk yes or no it’s totally sterilein the world there is no more discussion, here in Argentina the debate opens when a misfortune like that of Tuesday occurs, ”said Berni about what happened at the Retiro station on the line C from the metro.

For his part, D’Alessandro said: “How many tragedies are we going to have to regret because of this ridiculous whim? How far will this irresponsibility go to want to fuck up the life of Buenos Aires because they do not vote for the jets? What are they going to invent now? Non-lethal weapons are a key tool for taking care of people, most countries in the world use them. Political pettiness cannot be more important than people’s lives. Much strength to Maribel’s family. We are at your disposal”.

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