A hotel guests faces 6 counts of assaulting a police officer after calling the cops to his hotel room, saying he wanted to kill them “since his world was ending.” The cops didn’t end his world but did taser him several times.
The man, staying at the Plaza Resort on Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach, Florida, “threw knives, a trash can and other items at officers as they tried to get him to surrender.”
Daytona Beach police posted video from their raid on Florida Man’s room to Facebook.
According to the department,
On Wednesday (February 10, 2021), our officers were called to a beachside hotel after receiving word of an armed person who may be a threat to himself and others.
Our officers found a man inside a room who asked us several times to shoot him and threw objects at us, including knives.
This body camera video shows what happened.
We successfully deescalated the incident. No one was seriously injured.
Reportedly tasers and pepper spray “had little effect on the suspect, who was sitting in a chair with a knife in his hand, telling officers to shoot him.”
Are stories like this, with video, really part of your mandate? A man in existential crisis, police in potential danger? Just because it took place in a hotel? I agree that sometimes there is news/social value in covering horrific travel events (IE: the Vegas shootings) but publishing this story just feels lurid, unkind, and cynical.
@Tom
You can move to another website if you are so offended.
The police did a nice job of avoiding the use of deadly force, even after multiple failures of non-lethal techniques. Glad it ended without serious injury or death.
But I thought the police just shoot black people?
Chris, really? Are you that guy? Flying that racist flag for everyone to see, thinking you are such a smart boy? Sad.
Excellent job. It is hard for police to do everything right. But this time they did. I hope the perpetrator gets the help he needs.
Love the nutter porn Gary….keep up the good work.
The Plaza is the one hotel I’ve wanted to stay at in Daytona Beach. A few weeks ago I checked rates for my spring break week, and I discovered:
1) My spring break coincides with Bike Week, which is one of two times I wouldn’t want to visit Daytona (the other being today, the Daytona 500);
and
2) Rooms in the Plaza are being sold! Yes, you too could own a part of Daytona Beach history, for as little as $34,000, apparently. But note that as an owner you can be responsible for special assessments to spruce up the place.
He was nude and had more than one knife they where in every right to shoot him, but they didn’t. Good job guys thanks for showing some great skills out there your okay in my book