Streatham: police arrive on the scene after man shot by armed officers in terror incident

This is the moment police arrive on a street in Streatham after a terrorism-related incident. The Metropolitan police say a number of people have been stabbed in Streatham, south London. After footage emerged on social media of armed police approaching a prone figure on the pavement, officers cordoned off the street and advised people to avoid the area
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[@hapijen4828]

Move back - nothing to see here - just another London day.

[@JM-co6rf]

Headline: Diverse man enriches locals with sharp object.

[@garethmorgan3665]

@J M I like how you use humour to make your petty hatred more palatable.

[@Cassidy127]

@@garethmorgan3665 if you like it just give it a thumbs up and be done with it.

[@Cassidy127]

@heyhey heyhey never mind, a feast of politically correct doctor who is on in a minute. Fill yer boots.

[@goodyeoman4534]

@@garethmorgan3665 you don't hate terrorists?

[@lb585]

@@garethmorgan3665 how is not wanting your people killed in their own country petty hatred

[@pumpkineater23]

If only there was a common thread linking these seemingly random attacks.

[@jhb1359]

😃

[@weknowwhatweare7600]

pumpkineater23 lol just speak the truth bro

[@voicesinthedark109]

Hmm... but what could it be...

[@roland20002000]

White male privilege?

[@weknowwhatweare7600]

What's That Nasty Smell true that just wait an hour tommy Robinson was the main reason it happened 😂😂😂

[@ukcopblue]

Ironic the many ambulances lining up .But you try and get one for an emergency within an hour in London.

[@chunkybuster7203]

Yeah, they were all waiting round the corner, waiting for the director to shout ACTION! More BS

[@cosm1cstar]

Chunky Buster 👍🏻~🥱

[@andwelovearpsychopat7820]

@mhffc like taxis haha

[@roycropper698]

CMDR they suddenly appeared because they was held back by the police until, the situation was deemed safe.

[@ethancarberry-holt3011]

They would've been sent to a rendezvous point before reaching the scene

[@mickk8519]

Oh gosh, "someone did something" According to Sky News, it was a "gentleman"

[@Cassidy127]

Apparently, it was a dispute over the last 2 for 1 Tesco pulled pork that escalated quickly

[@GarethE94]

The irony of the guy wearing a peace hoodie in a terror attack hits deep

[@mursaleensaleem1806]

True

[@knightatthecrossroads222]

@Viktor Sligo it was a machete so at least 10 inches.....?

[@jamesmacaw3865]

so any Americans here ready for the Superbowl today?! I got my money on the Niners

[@Panda-lq7xy]

That was me 😂😂😂🤣🤣 omg hahaha

[@Panda-lq7xy]

I'm sorry but i didn't know what was happening so i was like wtf 😂😂😂

[@RFSA180]

Such a shame we are so cynical about these peaceful attempted sacrifices. It's truly beautiful watching society enriched to death.

[@tig3662]

Miss the days of London under Boris Johnson. I'm going to say something that may upset Guardian viewers/readers: Labour are awful on crime. Excluding the New Labour years the Labour Party have soft approach to crime. The reason why London's crime rate is getting worse is because many on the Labour team find stop and search ''racist''. Stop and search decreased knife crime in London under Boris to record lows. London needs a new crime approach and Khan needs to go.

[@tig3662]

@the7thsea If it gets crime down and keeps people safe, yes!

[@sirhumphreyappleby8399]

These are both stupid arguments, New Labour saw an abandonment of proper policing just like any other government, the police shouldn't be going about stopping whoever they please without cause, they need to get out of their cars once in a while and engage with the public, in doing so they would make the presence of law and order known and act as a preventative force against crime. I am not sure I really want to live in a country that's capital can either be under permanent police overreach or one full of terrorists and the criminal classes.

[@Wolves1963]

Brain storming session in full flow at the Guardian - How can we spin this into a Brexit / far-right / racist report.

[@Johnny-bv4kg]

Lol 😂

[@frankjenkins6627]

How will the Mayor describe what has happened ?

[@redredmon8833]

He will probably blame white people and ban plastic spoons due to potential safety hazards

[@jay70328]

"Some people did some things"

[@andrewallison70]

BREXIT, he will blame BREXIT!!, its about the only way he knows how deflect the blame

[@oohtob6685]

Its obviously the Torys fault.

[@weknowwhatweare7600]

Frank Jenkins it's probably the mayors brother or cousin lol

[@spookybaba]

Stabbings? In London? Are you sure?

[@knightatthecrossroads222]

No. That was just emergency surgery but the only scalpel found was a machete. Operation was not succesful the doctor was not familiar with such a blade and maybe he was not exactly dr maybe just an engineer....slaughtered by brutal policemen who shot 3 times.....that is not selfdefence for sure.

[@cosm1cstar]

SpookyBaba 😳🥴😉🥱

[@cosm1cstar]

Knight at the Crossroads 👍🏻🤛🏻

[@robwulz3493]

The po po will need to check everyone's thinking here , won't they ?

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

Oi... you got a license for that thought crime m8.

[@Mr_Higgs]

In 7 years time this will still be 'under investigation' just like the majority of crimes in the UK

[@SheIsAVampireBat]

ACAB

[@linkofvev]

@Roadside picnic You realise the origin of that joke came from a guy making death threats, right?

[@godking5848]

@@linkofvev it's from 1984.

[@steeltuff1]

Best news article ever! 40 seconds of the police. I found this incredibly informative thanks.

[@wolfiedude14]

its almost like a video isn't even meant to be a substantive article!

[@j.a.m9323]

Lets play a game: spot the white man

[@karlosthejackel69]

J.A.M He’s the one with a knife in him

[@HenryFurnell]

That's right opposite the recently shut down police station 🤷🙃🤔

[@bl00dhoney]

It's been closed for years. Hardly recent.

[@acharich]

🤦🏾‍♂️

[@f8ofk8]

All the people crowding around to gawk; don't make yourselves secondary targets. You've got to be smarter.

[@MASTERJJ1995]

Welcome to London

[@chunkybuster7203]

Hullo, they are all crisis actors, silly

[@f8ofk8]

@@chunkybuster7203 Simple answer for a simpleton.

[@merlinthemagician3388]

The melting pot of the uk

[@strangelee4400]

Tomorrows Guardian headline: Religious 'Asian' scholar on way to 'church' murdered by racist police!

[@colinmarlow2592]

It's because somebody believed somebody else's lies...and is now dead as a result of their own misguided stupidity!

[@wernerhanekom772]

Nothing new. This has become normal in London.

[@tub19]

Blimey didn't realise London had that many ambulances lol

[@blakerth1479]

Oi you gotta permit for that knife ?

[@JM-co6rf]

Diversity truly is our strength.

[@oohtob6685]

Unbelievable response from the emergency services.

[@jaquesravalec242]

@david holdsworth This is the wrong site for you.

[@oohtob6685]

Its either alcohol or drugs thats done that. And im talking that reply not the terror attack.

[@oohtob6685]

@david holdsworth i totally agree with a critical mind, its just for me the reply was a little odd. I may be wrong but reading into your imput your either a pro euro remoaner or anti western government kind of guy. Just my thoughts from your input.

[@topchessmoments]

@david holdsworth cringe

[@Adam-vy6nl]

david holdsworth tin foil hat brigade 😂

[@MrDutto]

14 seconds of video followed by a clip of some ambulances... is anybody even trying anymore?

[@challyho6375]

What colour or race is he if it was a white guy they would of announced it already

[@jauntyangle5667]

Nothing to say Guardian?

[@moseslya324]

Ridiculous! Ban all sharp objects!!

[@cavendish009]

And 800 police turn up. I had no idea we had so many !

[@Cassidy127]

There are currently no other officers in a thirty mile radius :/

[@chunkybuster7203]

They were waiting round the corner , for when the director shouted ACTION!

[@Cassidy127]

@@chunkybuster7203 meanwhile, over at the House of Windsor....

[@TheTrickshot77]

UK Media: the guy is probably Asian and Peaceful

[@uberdude2555]

UK media will probably claim: "It is believed the person had mental issues says sources."

[@Premod]

@Jay Leno he was just tryna get his lfie together man, remember slavery?

[@dazasc1621]

There's a guy running around stabbing people and everyone stops and films on there phones WTF?!!!!!!!

[@adama-k2710]

Welcome to the 21st century.

[@francis_n]

don't wanna be that person who gets stabbed while filming the events around me

[@dazasc1621]

@Jacob Fenrir fair play, crazy world though 😯

[@Cassidy127]

How else can these attention wh0res get clicks on their twitbook?

[@ml0288]

Ah UK - what a paradise...!

[@DZ0]

Yo Guardian, stop deleting my comments yeah? Thanks.

Probably you are not political correct XD

[@somanytakennames]

Your comments were never deleted, stop trying.

[@elimufc6965]

Try censoring certain words with a * ....like g*ardian readers are f*king c*nts

[@DZ0]

@@somanytakennames i replied to like 3 other peoples comments on this video and only one is still there in my comment history.

[@davidbarlow350]

Only 21,999 on surveillance by MI5 now? Every cloud,eh? Mind you i don't know how busy Dover beach was yesterday.

[@Kadaf1]

“I miss living in London”, said no one ever!

[@gojo2194]

Need to sort it out...

[@ZedsDeadOK]

No doubt the police will return to the nick and start checking peoples thoughts on social media, we can't have the truth escaping now can we.

[@wakey87]

Loads of people with different morals and beliefs crammed into an over populated city, what could go wrong.

[@joefidell4068]

100% agree mate

[@vanessaruiz4705]

that's not the problem. Over 90% just want to work and live peacefully. The few that go around committing crimes should be invited to leave the country.

[@hairyassJock]

1 man shot... the rest of the Ambulances were for the offended...

[@ap4702]

Remove the gloves

[@theaylesburycyclist8756]

Were all the paramedics bored or something??

[@BaldMancTwat]

Looks like it.

[@jackbarnes48]

Well if they cant save lives of other people around London, why not look busy?

[@c.m5043]

I'm a paramedic it looks like overkill, however this is normal. For a cardiac arrest you need at least three people working on the patient. If there are three victims all with strong potential to go into cardiac arrest you would need at least 9 members of staff. Bare in mind the cars cannot safely transport a patient TO hospital, a full ambulance is needed for the transport aspect. Also each car only has one member of staff on the majority of the time. Then for an arrest the cars are left and TWO staff members go in the back whilst one drives. Then later after the fact they will be dropped back to the cars. That added to the severity of the situation, the public element and crowds etc, there needs to be enough staff to manage the patient and coordinate the potentially nightmarish situation with the large crowds involving themselves. Also the potential for additional patients that may have not initially been called in. Overall this is a bit of an exceptional scenario.

[@marcio4u123]

I am much more in shock that knowing the police left a stabbed victim agonising for 30 minutes on the pavement while you have a hospital few minutes away that’s unbelievable only in a pariah state authorities can be so bloody cold like that

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

Hmm, appears perhaps the guardian are deleting my comments.

[@jgvfyufcgvk9234]

Did you speak the truth?!!

[@John-Smlth]

It's not always the Channel Owner themselves that causes comments to be removed. An excessive number of reports, wether inaccurate or truthful, of something like graphic violence, bullying or spam can cause your comment to be removed. Polarised comment sections, like this one, often have more false reporters who abuse the system and report anything they disagree with.

[@Adam-vy6nl]

And mine

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

@@Adam-vy6nl I didn't even say anything remotely hateful, I just made solid arguments against leftists.

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

@@John-Smlth My comment was neither any of those in the list, I just argued with a guardian partisan and they didn't like it.

[@Mr_Higgs]

Weather its terror related or not. Stabbings happen in London every day.

[@johnfkennedy261]

gone mad with having to carry on a crusade.... class act

[@Alina-ly6pf]

I cant belive I was there at that moment I was scared

[@nuux1560]

Are the ones masked and wearing hoodies undercover police or something?

[@BaldMancTwat]

No, they're just random people who are wrapped up because it's winter.

[@kevinisawake]

The police wearing hoodies have a LICENCE TO KILL without warning. They ask questions after the SUSPECT is dead.

[@nickdrye2375]

@@kevinisawake More than likely MI7

[@jaquesravalec242]

@@kevinisawake Thanks for that superb analysis Simple Simon.

[@davidhughes3337]

SAS - was reported a few days after the incident.

[@florida10100]

What’s going on!

[@benclarkson4205]

The other crime here... filming in portrait 🥵🤬

[@soylentblue6924]

Far too many doctors/Medical staff onsite for two knife victim's....over kill

[@zzzz6249]

2020 is going to be a rough year

[@UkArmedPolice]

how did you know?! lol

[@thefarrell5654]

“Diversity is our strength”

[@jhb1359]

Diversity with a common goal agree. As it stands🤮🤮

[@vjab1108]

Just another one Mr KHAN?

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

It must have been a very slow day for the ambulance crews if they sent that many emergency response cars to just 3 casualty's It's like looking at a taxi stand with how many are there

[@andusz5518]

A show of power is always necessary when a case is about to become a headliner. Looking like you are dealing with a problem has always been more necessary than actually dealing with it.

[@uberdude2555]

The ambulance crews are responding not only to the reported injured but also an unfolding terrorist attack, there could have well been an explosion from a suicide vest from accomplices in the surrounding area, or more stabbings.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@uberdude2555 that's not how the emergency services work, someone doesn't get stabbed and then they send the firefighters in case he also threw a Molotov cocktail at a house, they respond to how many casualty's there are, not how many there could be after an event which hasn't happened yet

[@uberdude2555]

It's not simply 3 people getting stabbed, it is a developing unfolding terrorist incident and the police and ambulance crew will have a preplanned formula of how many assets to throw in and how many resources to hold in reserve. You are completely wrong if you think the police simply dialled 999 and said three people were stabbed please send 3 ambulances, it doesn't work like that for a terrorist attack.

[@c.m5043]

I'm a paramedic it looks like overkill, however this is normal. For a cardiac arrest you need at least three people working on the patient. If there are three victims all with strong potential to go into cardiac arrest you would need at least 9 members of staff. Bare in mind the cars cannot safely transport a patient TO hospital, a full ambulance is needed for the transport aspect. Also each car only has one member of staff on the majority of the time. Then for an arrest the cars are left and TWO staff members go in the back whilst one drives. Then later after the fact they will be dropped back to the cars. That added to the severity of the situation, the public element and crowds etc, there needs to be enough staff to manage the patient and coordinate the potentially nightmarish situation with the large crowds involving themselves. Also the potential for additional patients that may have not initially been called in. Overall this is a bit of an exceptional scenario.

[@JahidaKhanShumi]

What happened? I don’t understand..

[@Cassidy127]

@J and M and he had a radicalised knife

[@JahidaKhanShumi]

Thank you guys...

[@Adam-vy6nl]

Three cheers for Cultural Enrichment!

[@therealisticgooner8267]

Was it an amputation?! I only ask because I’m wondering if each ambulance (car) is going to take a separate body part to hospital ! 😳🤪

[@robloxfan4271]

grief how many vw tiguan ambulance cars?!

[@nungfish]

Another DARK Day for London.

[@sn4rff]

i suppose there must be more evidence that just hasn't been released yet - only, there wasn't much in that report to confirm that this was terrorism.

[@suehughes-parry2795]

Fast moving... Frightening...

[@andwelovearpsychopat7820]

7 ambulances for 1 man?

[@jaquesravalec242]

Cool question bro.

[@c.m5043]

I'm a paramedic it looks like overkill, however this is normal. For a cardiac arrest you need at least three people working on the patient. If there are three victims all with strong potential to go into cardiac arrest you would need at least 9 members of staff. Bare in mind the cars cannot safely transport a patient TO hospital, a full ambulance is needed for the transport aspect. Also each car only has one member of staff on the majority of the time. Then for an arrest the cars are left and TWO staff members go in the back whilst one drives. Then later after the fact they will be dropped back to the cars. That added to the severity of the situation, the public element and crowds etc, there needs to be enough staff to manage the patient and coordinate the potentially nightmarish situation with the large crowds involving themselves. Also the potential for additional patients that may have not initially been called in. Overall this is a bit of an exceptional scenario.

[@WINTERB0RN]

Who's the guy on the left with his hand on his sidearm and ID in the air? Undercover police or ......

[@MCorrigan]

The UK really has become a hole.

[@JamelTumenas]

I was there aswell💀

[@benjo3355]

Thats strange...I didn't see you... Probably because I wasn't there... sorry :-/

[@dang8491]

terrorist's best friend: curious people who have no involvement staying near the active scene where they can all be taken out as a group. ffs go home and do something else instead of getting in the way and watching.

[@redd_cat]

perhaps it was one of those pesky freedom-of-speech extremists

[@pidlive]

I really wish people wouldn't film in portrait...

[@imamferdaus7569]

Not the thing people tend to think about after a terrorist attack

[@Cassidy127]

@@imamferdaus7569 not the thing people think about full stop, apparently

[@chunkybuster7203]

That's so you can't see the other 'actors'!

[@vidneypopples]

They are too stupid consider videoing in landscape.

Why police ATTACK that poor immigrant who was probably a qualified doctor or engineer but unfortunately he just didn't understand our European culture! What a disappointment! XD

[@phillisstein6434]

Fat cant

[@2011arish]

O dear

[@ofwz]

For addition again

[@vidneypopples]

Stop covering this BBC I'd rather watch the baftas. This is not as big a story as you want to make it.

[@alexlindsay9393]

first incident of february 2020 lets see what else is gonna happen this month

[@Cassidy127]

If you listen carefully you can hear the sound of Windsor being gently swept under the carpet.

[@JM-co6rf]

This may be bad, sure, but just imagine how many stabbings we'd be having if England was English. I shutter to think.

[@SheIsAVampireBat]

Lotta dead Scottish and Welsh people it would end with.

[@aj-08080]

Why does this remind me of the Piccadilly mission of modern warfare

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

Why is it news if the police were already their? This is worded weird as hell

[@farooqkarimi6627]

Why didn’t they use rubber bullets I do remember they used rubber bullets in Essex a year ago when they tried to stop the old man John I believe his name was and he was carrying a sword. They should have captured him and asked questions so this kind of stuff wouldn’t repeat again

[@overheatedeskim054]

2 questions who is that guy in civilian clothes running up and linking up with the armed police.

[@MASTERJJ1995]

Undercover police officers

[@davidhughes3337]

SAS - reported a few days later.

[@jay70328]

More diversity needed, I think that'd fix the problem

[@mirzakagan5729]

imagine being this insane.

[@NotQuiteFirst]

@George xeno it's called pattern recognition, it's quite useful if you don't intentionally reject it

[@acharich]

👀

[@vanessaruiz4705]

multuculturalism doesnt have anything to do with gangs the same way that British dont have anything to do with few British homeless drug addicts who go around shoplifting. Would you like it if we assume all of you are drunk and drug addicts because of what few of you do? Whatever, not that I expect you to understand it. All I see is "foreigners at it again" or "diversity at it again", and other stupid statements.

[@vanessaruiz4705]

@James Vaughan dont even compare yourselves with Japanese, and I know what I am talking about because I lived there for 8 months. Very bad example. Japan is allowing many more immigrants now due to the population getting too old, but this will not happen there, because they have really harsh laws, and proper law enforcement. Just for carrying some drugs, not even for trafficking, they send people to jail for even 8 years. They also have death penalty. But, more important than that, there is a strong conscience of not committing crimes and foreigners living there have adapted well with very few exceptions. It's very uncommon to find reports of any kind of issue related to immigrants. Criminality is almost zero. And if an immigrant was caught committing a crime he would have his visa revoked and bye bye! so there isnt even a chance of the situation getting out of hands. And that's what your government should do.

[@nexel354]

tapped

[@4bigmonk]

Thank you Jeremy corbyn!

[@sumvs5992]

Cant wait for the attacker to be revealed as a 'minority' and promptly be praised by this newspaper

[@-scrim]

Are you sure this is London? The people don't look very British.

[@mariacarter6954]

Is this filmed in UK or spot the white guy😨 which country IS this ?

[@celestewalker3915]

Did you not read the headline???? Clearly says LONDON

[@hassansaddique7411]

Need to know if its lone wolf or a terrorist

[@fazzy244]

He was shot, so a terrorist, no lone white wolf ever gets shot.

[@hassansaddique7411]

@@fazzy244 we never know but whoever was it deserve it

[@Joggly420]

Headline and the description reveal more about the police actions than about the motive ... shame Guardian shame

[@davidhughes3337]

Nitty Gritty - and not police anyway, SAS.

[@madedigital]

ITS ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE OLD BILL SUNNY HILL STATION

[@matthewstevens4462]

It’s closed

[@leesample9606]

well thats one less vote for labour.

[@MegaBeanandCheese]

Thanks, multiculturalism.

[@thepanther1728]

this is just the start

[@gazzacollins430]

Terrorists never win

[@theroach2204]

I love how there is a dude just joining in with the armed police 0:08

[@davidhughes3337]

Alexei smirnoff - SAS team. Not police.

[@farzana6676]

Ban all knives.

[@TheKonga88]

Toad of Toad Hall did it. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🚔🚓🚨👮👮🚑🚑😀😀😷🏯🏰🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🏰

[@outdoorsy01]

This clip already exists so it's hardly news. You guys need a narrator or something. Just wish I could block your channel so I stop accidentally clicking on your clips instead of an informative channel

[@Kak974]

YOU SURE THIS ISN'T THE IRA?

[@andreipojoga1551]

BOND STRIT

[@knowwhere4185]

Immigrants at work

[@deeznutz8320]

Dieversity at work again.. My condoleances to the victims families.

[@yibro3360]

Blame the diversity only when a terrorist attack arises. What a brave person you are.

[@gimmedaloot]

Aloha Snackbar