A female police officer in Middletown, Connecticut was violently attacked by a man wielding a hammer after she responded to a complaint about noise and breaking glass on a residential street.
From Fox News:
Detective Karli Travis, who runs the Middletown Police Cadet Program and serves in the patrol division, was the first officer who responded to the call. She approached the resident on foot and police said that she immediately noticed that the suspect, 52-year-old Winston Tate, was wielding a blunt object.
In a press conference on Tuesday, August 15, Chief Eric McCallister of the Middletown Police Department said that Travis calmly asked Tate to drop the object, a metal hammer, to the ground.
He refused, despite the officer repeatedly insisting that Tate does so.
“Can you put that down, please,” Travis is heard calmly saying in body camera footage, released by the Connecticut Office of Inspector General.
“No!” Tate is heard barking back.
As Travis radioed for backup from her colleagues, Tate is seen in body camera footage charging towards her, wielding a hammer.
Watch the video above. GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING.
Tate was charged with criminal attempt to commit first-degree assault, second-degree assault, assault on public safety personnel, and interfering with police.
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