An Australian police detective paused his press conference on Wednesday in Queensland after he heard a commotion coming from behind him. He turned around to see a man fleeing with people shouting at him and another man in hot pursuit. The detective, Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards, quickly tackled the man in a maneuver seen by many as being a textbook rugby tackle.
The man who chased the tackled man said, “He’s been inappropriate to my daughter.”
Edwards said, “Obviously the man had just been released and a young lady walking down the street had comments made to her which were relayed to her father which obviously provoked her father.” Though police have not yet released his identity, the man was arrested and taken into custody on charges of “further nuisance.”
Detective Edwards said of his instinct to stop the fleeing man, “Look it’s just one of those things you know.” Edwards formerly played professional rugby and described his interception as a “good tackle … I dropped the shoulder and tackled him. Right around the knees, it dropped him.”
