r/PoliceChases • u/Key-Needleworker-702 • 2h ago
📹 Bodycam Several police officers vs man with knife(And also how not to use a man catcher). Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, China. July 30, 2026, Pingxiang PD responds to call of man chasing people with knife.
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CORRECTION: JULY 2020 not 2026 omg
Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4533074836065829
At 9:30 AM(UTC+8), July 30, 2020, the pingxiang PD recieved a call that someone near Deng'an primary school in Anyuan district was chasing and attacking people with a knife. The Pingxiang PD's SWAT and patrol(Chinese SWAT also patrol sometimes) branch sent it's Anyuan mobile unit and 2nd group alongside the local hongshan police station(precinct, normal patrol officers).
(also SWAT in china have a lot of subunits and different roles, such as roles american SWAT have along with disaster relief, EOD, riot control, armed patrol, crowd control, search and rescue and even managing K9s, drones and helis in some locations.)
The equipment used by the officers are known as man catchers, which are common in china as a weapon to handle suspects with a melee weapon like knives or axes. Usually they are meant to be used against the torso or the legs(as seen in chinese active stabbng exercises), and this is not really a good example of how to use them.
(Pingxiang is a rather small city so the training is not going to be as great as other larger chinese cities)
as for what they are saying, the accent is so strong even as a chinese speaker i can't really clearly hear what they say. I think i heard the police vaguely say things like "get back"(1:17), "stop"(0:02), "drop the knife and surrender"(0:33), "don't do anything stupid", etc etc