The man, dressed in a white T-shirt and jeans, was described by admirers on social media as “bravery personified” in the face of danger.
A short but dramatic video taken inside Bondi Junction Westfield has captured the moment a lone man armed with a shopping centre bollard confronted the knife-wielding attacker on an escalator.
The clip showed the man standing at the top of an escalator, holding the bollard up in the air like a projectile, with its heavy base pointed toward the attacker, and moving toward him. Meanwhile, the attacker was moving up the stairs, clutching a knife. But the five-second clip did not show how the confrontation concluded.
It was among a number of confronting videos and images posted on social media as the horrifying rampage unfolded inside the shopping centre on a busy Saturday afternoon.A separate video posted to TikTok showed two people in plain clothes – one of whom was carrying a chair – following a police officer as she ran through the shopping centre. It was later revealed the officer - an inspector who happened to be nearby at the time - located, confronted and fatally shot the attacker.
During another stabbing rampage in the Sydney CBD in 2019, firefighters and other bystanders managed to pin the attacker – Mert Ney – to the ground using a chair and a milk crate.In that incident, a fireman, Mitch Bennetts, saw the Clarence Street commotion from his truck, parked, and armed himself with an axe-like tool normally used to break into burning buildings. He and fellow firefighter Gonzalo Herrera then gave chase.
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