Police: Arizona officer kills Qatari man who attacked him
By TERRY TANG The Associated Press Dec 20, 2019
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona state trooper shot and killed a Qatari man who was in the U.S. on a student visa after he violently attacked the officer patrolling for drunken drivers along with a member of the group Mothers Against Drunk Driving, authorities said Friday.
The state trooper spotted 25-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Al-Hashemi throw a street sign onto a road in suburban Phoenix late Thursday and ordered him to pick it up, said Col. Frank Milstead, director of the Department of Public Safety.
Al-Hashemi wouldn't pick it up, then began walking in the middle of the road and wouldn't obey commands to stop, Milstead said.
More at: https://madison.com/news/national/police-arizona-officer-kills-qatari-man-who-attacked-him/article_d75a187a-e9d6-56cc-a040-c98d863090a8.html
See some of the encounter here:
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1208252043493814276Amazingly, the Qatari student even got tasered but it didn't stop his belligerent behavior (article says he even threw the trooper on the ground at one point). Quite a wrestling match where the trooper felt it necessary to draw and use his weapon.
The Qatari student, if one reads the rest of the article, was involved in an incident at a Muslim Community Center or Mosque on Wednesday. If I have the story correct, he might have even gone to two different places.
The student was "impaired" per article. Impaired but this boy did show some strength with this officer, I'd say he got the better of him actually.
A story worth noting.
