Trey Filter, one of the men who tackled the alleged gunman at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, said of punching the man in the ribs: “That was awesome.”
of new york post Quote Filter said he saw a flash out of the corner of his eye, which turned out to be someone running. “My brain told me, ‘That must be him,'” Filter said.
He described everything that rapidly unfolded from that point: “I literally remember when I was tackling him, I thought, ‘I wish this was the guy they were yelling at me to get.’ ‘Cause I just said, ‘Boom!’ So I went there. …I don’t remember seeing him coming at all. ”
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Filter added: “I don’t know if I knocked him unconscious when I tackled him or what, but as far as I know I squeezed him so hard that he passed out the whole time. It could have been,” he added. I just started tapping him in the ribs. ”
He summed up his actions as doing the “American thing.”
Breitbart News reported that three people are in custody in connection with Wednesday’s shooting, but police have not yet said how many firearms were involved or how they were obtained.
Police detained a person near the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl III championship parade on February 14, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
More than 20 people were shot, one of whom died.
Helping injured people near the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl III victory parade on February 14, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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