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Below are the journalistic sources used to inform the video. The most helpful is this Australian Financial Review article, which is breaks down the incident minute-by-minute based on a video which has not yet been release to the public, but which shows the entire incident from beginning to end:
Other sources of information:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/world/australia/bondi-beach-shooting-sydney-australia.html
I’ve edited together all footage I’ve found online of the Sunday 14th December 2025 Bondi Beach mass shooting, to help the public understand how the entire incident unfolded in context rather than the short clips and images that are being shared with misinformation to push certain agendas.
Reports police “froze and did nothing for 20 minutes” are incorrect. I’ve edited all known clips together chronologically. It appears that police started shooting within about 4-6 min, and incapacitated the offenders in about 6-8 min of being called.
Also, after looking at the few short frames she appears in, the female officer seen crouching behind a vehicle was still moving toward the shooters and was holding her firearm.
In fact, she may have been the closest officer at the time, getting within about 25-30 metres of the shooters before they were incapacitated, and had a male officer following behind her.
Source:
Probationary constable Jack Hibbert and constable Scott Dyson were both seriously injured, taken to hospital in critical condition where they have undergone surgery.
A third officer was shot and did not suffer any serious injuries due to her ballistic vest.
When the gunfire stopped, Ms. Davidson ran across the street to help, identifying herself as a nurse. On one side of the bridge, she saw a policewoman who had been shot on her bulletproof vest. Ms. Davidson pulled it off the officer and found she wasn’t seriously hurt.
https://archive.is/20251215130157/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/world/australia/bondi-beach-shooting-sydney-australia.html
A fourth female officer was hit with grazing injuries from gun fire but did not notice until she had returned to her police station.
I will update this post with a timeline of events and more analysis when I have time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Bondi_Beach_shooting
All unedited footage:
I’ve been muddling along with this website for years. I need to clarify direction, content and intent.
This site is a reference archive, a library of real-world incidents involving use of force, restraint, self defence, and other kinds of violence. Each case links to open-source footage or reliable reporting and is categorised by variables that matter: environment, weapon type, number of participants, and outcome.
There are no limitations for users on downloading files – you should be able to right-click and download without issue.
This site is intended as a training and research tool, not entertainment. Use it to identify recurring patterns, tactical failures and so on, or to highlight methods that were used to good, proportionate and lawful effect.
I’ve provided my own analysis in some cases, but the purpose here is to provide footage of real events so you can perform your own analysis.
Always follow your agency’s policies, local laws, and use-of-force guidelines in training and operational contexts.
This material includes graphic violence and fatal outcomes. View it in the context of professional development and harm reduction.
Do not circulate clips outside education, training or investigative purposes without context. The goal is understanding and prevention, not spectacle.
All material on this site is provided for educational and professional analysis.
It does not constitute legal advice, agency policy, or official training doctrine.
The purpose of this content is to improve understanding of real-world violence, reduce harm, and inform evidence-based practice.
Viewer discretion is advised — some material depicts fatal or severe injuries.
Always follow your agency’s policies, local laws, and use-of-force guidelines in training and operational contexts.
A man who is dying from positional asphyxiation will not speak at a normal, conversational pace.
He will speak in short, repetitive statements that fade and trail off at the end, in an obvious rhythm matching their short breaths; this is because they are unable to breathe deeply enough to construct a longer sentence.
Typically, they panic and start pleading, their voice cracks and changes pitch, display acute fear and become less coherent over time.
They may make nonsensical statements, begin asking for help from people who are not there, ask for their mother and so on as panic increases and consciousness starts to fade.
When sudden tranquility follows vigorous resistance, there is a high risk of death.
These things emerge consistently during positional asphyxiation, but they are often disregarded or not recognised by police and other workers.
This can happen despite education and training on the matter. Over a career, a police officer may personally come across dozens of instances where an offender starts to panic as they begin to asphyxiate, but there is no long-term negative outcome.
Death from positional asphyxiation is actually quite rare compared to total arrests, but there are many more near misses and a large number of people who are actually struggling to breathe, but are not believed by police. And there are also plenty of instances where offenders are lying, and use it as a tactic to escape custody.
There will also be instances where people suddenly die due to medical or drug issues – this has happened when no force is used at all, and may coincidentally occur during arrest.
This all leads to reinforcement in the mind of the officer that positional asphyxiation either doesn’t exist or is due purely to medical issues and drug abuse. Pleas and saying “I can’t breathe” are ignored, because some believe that “if you can talk, you can breathe”.
You can run your entire career and avoid serious repercussions with this attitude… or one day you might be recorded on video, telling a pleading prisoner “if you can talk, you can breathe”, while you sit on them until they die.
Better to simply change position just in case, is it not?
In any case, the signs are easy to identify once you’ve observed the pattern across multiple incidents in real time and heard it for yourself.
For training and education purposes, this video depicts several instances where men have died in custody after being restrained. Viewers will hopefully notice a pattern emerging in each instance.
https://keato.info/the-audible-signs-of-positional-asphyxiation/
On Tuesday 27th May 2025, 24YO Kumanjayi White was arrested after allegedly stealing food and assaulting a security guard who’d confronted him inside a supermarket in Alice Springs. He died in custody a short time later. What really happened, and who is at fault?
Related:
This is a compilation of a few instances where Australian police disarm offenders using open-hand or minimal and less-lethal methods.
A couple of other arrests were thrown in for entertainment purposes – highly ranked police who were interrupted and performed arrests during press conferences.
Handcuffing is hard, and real encounters are dynamic and unpredictable. So why is police training scripted and linear?
This video looks into what makes the process of handcuffing both distinct and similar to the challenges we face in martial arts, the problem with current models of training for police, and how we should be training our police instead.
NSW police confronted this man after he was seen brandishing a meat cleaver at Parramatta Train Station, about 12.45pm on Friday 13 June 2025.
A female officer can be seen following him and demanding that he drop the weapon. At this point, he could have turned around and struck her with the cleaver quite easily. Luckily he made no attempt.
Drawing guns would have carried a large risk to the public, who were milling about in large number around the armed man. There’s also the risk he could strike out to attack them. It’s a very difficult situation.
Eventually, he is tackled by another cop while looking back at the first officer.
The principles around either using or defending against multiple opponents are covered in detail here:
After he was taken down, the female officer questioned the man: ‘What were you planning?’
The handcuffed man replied: ‘What do you mean?’
‘With the knife,’ she said.
‘Fucking no plan,’ the man replied.
She said: ‘No plan? Just carrying a knife through the middle of Parramatta?’
The man was taken to Parramatta Police Station, where he was charged with carrying a knife visible in a public place – causing fear for safety, and hindering or resisting police officers in the execution of duty.
Shocking vision has emerged of police trying to subdue a woman who was threatening drivers with a large knife in the middle of one of Australia’s busiest highways.
A 52-year-old woman will face court on Wednesday, charged over allegedly threatening drivers and causing traffic to come to a halt on the M1 Motorway near Taree.
At about 4pm on Tuesday (26 November 2024), emergency services were called to the motorway at Koorainghat following reports of a concern for welfare.
Police vehicles descended on the area with uniformed and plain clothes officers surrounding the woman in an attempt to subdue her and remove her from the roadway.
Officers attached to Manning/Great Lakes police district confronted the woman who was armed with the knife and threatening other drivers who were speeding by.
Police blocked the northbound lanes of the Pacific Highway and negotiated with the woman who allegedly threatened officers with the knife.
After calls for her to put the knife down and move away from the roadway, a taser was used to slow here progress toward officers as another can be seen tackling here from behind and pinning her to the ground in the middle of the motorway.
The knife was wrestled from her grasp as a group of police officers fought to subdue her and place her in restraints.
She was taken to Taree police station, where she was charged with attempt stalk/intimidate intend fear of harm (personal), common assault, possess or use a prohibited weapon without permit and use knife in public place – cause person to fear for safety.
The woman was refused bail to appear before Taree Local Court on Wednesday.