– ‘Stupid idiot’ –
Amateur video showed a pool of blood and bloody footprints at the Tube station ticket gates.
Shouts are heard as the suspect is seen remonstrating with people before swinging at one of them.
Some Tube-users continued on their way while others hurried from the scene.
Footage shows officers shouting “Drop the knife!” and firing Taser electric stun guns, one of which connects.
“Who is this idiot?” one onlooker said of the suspect, adding: “Yes! Stupid idiot,” after the man is Tasered.
Officers shout “Put the knife down!” and “Drop it now!” at the stunned man, who did drop the short-bladed knife as he quivered on the ground.
On his front, the man was handcuffed behind his back while another officer pinned him down with his knee and passers-by were told to get back.
One man at the scene then shouted at the suspect: “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv! You’re no Muslim, bruv! You ain’t no Muslim!”
Eyewitness Khayam told the BBC that when the suspect was taken to a police van, “I saw pedestrians shouting at him… one pedestrian tried to throw a bottle.”
He said one victim was taken out on a vertical stretcher.
Witness Michael Garcia, 24, a financial analyst from Leytonstone, said he had seen “a guy, an adult, lying on the floor with a guy standing next to him brandishing a knife of about three inches (7.5 centimetres)”, the BBC reported.
“He was screaming ‘go on, then, run’ to everyone else. He was pacing back and forth next to the guy on the floor.”
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