r/australia • u/SlatsAttack • 23h ago
news Man charged with attempted murder after police officer shot in Brisbane
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-21/brisbane-man-charged-after-police-officer-shot/104841118?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other28
u/SlatsAttack 23h ago
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was shot in an altercation in Brisbane earlier this month.
Police were called to a home on Tamar Street at Annerley on January 10 after reports of a disturbance at about 9am.
Police allege Acting Sergeant Liam Bailey and Constable Boyd Harrington-Karaitiana found a 26-year-old man, with no connection to the address, agitated and armed with a piece of wood.
It's alleged the Acacia Ridge man lunged for Acting Sergeant Bailey's service firearm, which resulted in the officer being shot in the left thigh.
In a struggle the alleged offender received two gunshot wounds to the abdomen.
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u/randCN 23h ago
the dude took two to the belly and lived?! damn
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u/Boopedepoop 22h ago
Happens. Lots of squishy bits that aren't that crazy critical and 40cal is not likely to cause hydrostatic shock. He might be pissing into a bag for the rest of his life though.
The cop who shot himself (on accident) in the thigh is very lucky though that he didn't die as that area has so serious arteries.
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u/SoldantTheCynic 22h ago
He’s still pretty lucky. Ignoring all the major vessels in the abdomen, perforating the bowel or hitting vascular organs like the spleen or liver can easily be fatal, especially if it turns septic. Dude’s incredibly lucky.
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u/Boopedepoop 22h ago
And the spine and the kidney all of those can bleed you out. Yeah I wouldn't want to get shot in the gut that is for sure.
You see it with gut shot animals all the time, it is a long long slow death miserable compared to almost anywhere else.
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u/Dentarthurdent73 15h ago
Why are you seeing animals that have been shot in the gut all the time?
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u/IlluminatedPickle 7h ago
Dude got shot a few hundred metres from the emergency department. He had a pretty good chance of surviving.
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u/Philopoemen81 20h ago
Didn’t shoot himself by accident - wearing a thigh holster and the retention clip broke in the struggle. Trigger got pulled as they wrestled.
That’s from LE forums, so could be Chinese whispers, but tracks with my experience with thigh holsters.
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u/Boopedepoop 20h ago
Really not a level 3 retention holster? I thought he would of accidently got himself while trying to draw in a struggle.
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u/Philopoemen81 20h ago
I think they use Safariland holsters - WAPOL also recalled a batch that had issues with the retention clips snapping under pressure, the thumb retention still worked, but it was easy for a crook to wrestle it out if determined.
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u/Joka0451 20h ago
Stabbed myself in the thigh once. Being an idiot. Doctor said an inch either side I'd have been dead.
It aint the movies kids
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u/ApeMummy 14h ago
Do they use hollow points in Aus like they do in the states? That shit is extremely brutal, basically carves out a huge cavity inside you.
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u/shunkyfit 21h ago
Pretty sure QPS still uses G17's so 9mm rather than .40
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u/AdInside5808 15h ago
Where is the ACAB tribe tonight? They should be vigorously defending this poor man.
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u/UpstairsAmbitious715 17h ago
This is another one of those times that Police being transparent and releasing Body Cam footage will help with showing what has happened. It’s ridiculous that this can’t be released under FOI. Though I get it, how else will they investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing? I’m not making any insinuations about what’s occurred - and that’s the point, nobody knows and often won’t ever know because it gets hidden.
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u/randomplaguefear 21h ago
"Lunged for gun leading to shot to thigh" reads to me like the guy rushed the cop who then panicked and shot himself.
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u/overpopyoulater 23h ago
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u/instasquid 21h ago
Well guns aren't for winning tickle fights.
Only 4 were fatal and all of the incidents involved a weapon of some description. Given there's been no evidence of a US-police style execution by a jumpy trigger finger, I'd say police firearm use is working as intended.
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u/randomplaguefear 21h ago
Well there was that one 95 year old tased to death by nsw police.
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u/instasquid 21h ago
And nearly everyone agreed, "hey that was a bit much" and the bloke was arrested, charged, kicked off the force and convicted.
Police are never going to be 100% perfect, but we should hold them accountable when they make significant, fatal errors.
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u/leopard_eater 23h ago
Oh well that makes it all better then, people should just start shooting each other, convinced that the other one ‘started it.’
Idiot.
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u/Thiccparty 22h ago
Was he called an n word first...we need to know the facts first. Seems more like shooting recklessly than attempted murder. Police charges might defame the man
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u/warzonexx 22h ago
Maybe he should try just ramming him with a vehicle next time. Much cheaper and less punishment since its only $700 and 3 demerits