President Moon Jae-in. yunhap newsPresident Moon Jae-in criticized the police’s poor response to the Incheon knife riot incident, saying, “It is not a matter of male and female police officers, but rather a matter related to the basic attitude of the police who were dispatched to the scene.” “The impossible has happened.”
Blue House spokeswoman Park Kyung-mi delivered the rebuke of President Moon at a briefing on the 22nd.
President Moon continued, “The highest duty of the police is to protect the lives and safety of citizens, and the impossible has happened,” he said.
Earlier, at 5:05 pm on the 15th, Mr. A (48), who lived on the 4th floor of a villa in Namdong-gu, Incheon, wielded a weapon at B, a woman in her 40s, a resident downstairs, who had a conflict with the noise between floors.
At that time, Policewoman C, a female policewoman, was at the scene of the incident, but left the scene for reasons such as requesting emergency assistance, and Inspector D, who was outside the villa, did not immediately respond to the scene. In this case, Mr. B was stabbed in the neck with a knife and was unable to regain consciousness. B’s husband and daughter in their 20s also received treatment for injuries to their hands and face.
In just two days, more than 200,000 people signed a petition to the Blue House, which was filed by the victim’s family to severely punish the police officers who caused damage due to poor response at the scene of the knife riot.
