A man has been tasered after allegedly throwing a spear at police and stabbing an officer in Sydney’s southwest yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n
At around 5.20pm yesterday, police were called to a home on Werombi Road in Grasmere following reports that a person had allegedly breached an apprehended violence order.<\/p>\n
\ufeffOfficers arrived at the address and attempted to arrest a 20-year-old man, however, during the arrest, the man allegedly threw a spear at officers before stabbing a 23-year-old officer in the leg.<\/p>\n
Police tasered the man before arresting him and taking him to Campbelltown Police Station.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old officer was a probationary constable who paramedics treated before being airlifted to Liverpool Hospital in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
\ufeffA crime scene has been established and police have seized a knife, hatchet and spear for forensic examination.<\/p>\n
Detectives are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been tasered after allegedly throwing a spear at police and stabbing an officer in Sydney’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-270095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}