Give these guys the keys to the city.
Britons hailed as 'heroes' after helping restrain man accused of Sydney knife attack
Paul O’Shaughnessy, 37, who played professionally for English football club Bury, and his brother Luke, 30, from Manchester, were in their office with their friend Lee Cuthbert when they heard a disturbance. They saw the alleged attacker wielding what Paul said was a knife and covered in blood, and chased him.
He told the Guardian at the scene that, together with other onlookers, they had managed to subdue the alleged offender. Paul said the man had yelled “extremist” slogans, but he declined to repeat what he had said.
Paul O’Shaughnessy, 37, who played professionally for English football club Bury, and his brother Luke, 30, from Manchester, were in their office with their friend Lee Cuthbert when they heard a disturbance. They saw the alleged attacker wielding what Paul said was a knife and covered in blood, and chased him.
He told the Guardian at the scene that, together with other onlookers, they had managed to subdue the alleged offender. Paul said the man had yelled “extremist” slogans, but he declined to repeat what he had said.
Could see a little bit of blood so we knew he’s done something with that knife, so we just ran after him basically and people were shouting, ‘He’s down that way.’
“… In our heads we were saying to each other, ‘Be careful, be careful,’ and we were asking witnesses, we were saying, ‘What has he got, is there anything else?’ ‘Nah, it’s just a knife’ – so that made us press forward even more because you can tackle someone if it’s like that, not if he’s got a gun or whatever.
“So we went straight over, we got him near a cafe down near George Street. There was one guy already tussling and we just kind of like, everyone just jumped on the guy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/13/britons-hailed-as-heroes-...