The most chilling video you’ll see today: Panicked cop begs ‘help me’ as junkie steals his gun from its holster and puts his fingers on the trigger
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Extraordinary bodycam footage shows a police officer struggling for his life with an ice addict who snatched his gun from its holster.
Footage has emerged of officers last year attacking wanted man Benjamin Patricks hiding in a jetty in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale.
NSW Police dog handler Jesse Swain confronted Patricks – who grabbed the officer’s gun from its holster and put his hand on the trigger.
With his own life and the lives of his colleagues on the line, Swain frantically struggles with Patricks to keep him from firing the gun.
NSW Police dog handler Jesse Swain restrained an armed ice addict from firing a gun at him and him and his colleagues
Dramatic footage shows Swain ordering Patricks to “let go” six times.
“Drop the goddamn gun,” he yells.
Patricks is heard screaming as Swain begs his colleagues, “Please help me guys.”
“We will, we will, we will,” his colleague assures him.
Swain held onto Patricks as he guided the weapon away from himself and his colleagues.
Patricks is eventually hit with a police radio and surrenders.
“I’m sorry, Officer, if I hurt you,” he heard crying.
The police bodycam captured Officer Jesse Swain struggling with the armed perpetrator
The life-threatening ordeal was over in 30 seconds. Swain walked away with only a cut to the head.
Dramatic police bodycam footage of the incident emerged from the first time Patricks was sentenced to four years in prison at Sydney’s Downing Center Court on Thursday.
Swain attended court for sentencing. The video was first obtained by Nine News reporter Tiff Genders.