This is the terrifying moment a hero police officer was stabbed through the leg with a samurai sword – but still manages to taser the thug as he lies bleeding on the ground.
PC Rob Monk, 32, was armed with a taser and a shield as he and his colleagues at Northamptonshire Police swooped on the house of a suspected car vandal.
Another officer’s body cam captured the terrifying moment PC Monk wedged his foot in the door of the house moments before the suspect lunged at him with the sword.
The officer screams in pain as his colleagues ask him if he is okay, to which he replies: “No, I’m stabbed.”
His colleague, PC Gary Liddle hauled the injured officer away from the doorway and started to administer first aid.
Incredibly, the footage shows PC Monk clutching his left thigh as he lies bleeding on the ground while he fires a taser at the yob with his right hand to protect PC Liddle.
He then tells another colleague: “Stand on my leg, stand on my leg” in order to stem the flow of blood.
The officer was rushed to hospital where doctors discovered the sword had gone straight through his thigh narrowly missing a main artery.
VIDEO: Hero cop stabbed by samurai sword wielding thug