Florida man fights car with scissors

This bodycam/dashcam footage from Jacksonville, Florida shows a police officer's response to a suspect using scissors as a stabbing implement. While the incident is not explicitly graphic, due to the racially perjorative language used by the suspect, viewer discretion is advised. On 04 May 2025, a 911 call came in from the suspect's girlfriend. A week prior, Michael Wright, 40 years of age, had been detained and taken to the hospital for a possible narcotic overdose. In the interim, his girlfriend decided to remove her belongings from his home. Wright allegedly took aggressive exception to this. The 911 call was a request for protection. Jacksonville Police Ofc. Burke responded,and as he arrived, Wright jumped up to stab the hood of his cruiser with scissors clenched in his fist. Burke then tried to strike Wright with the bumper of his car, after which Wright punched the driver's window. Burke backed up and went for another bumper thump, succeeding on the second try. Wright went sprawling. Burke apparently tried to use Wright's position of disadvantage to get out of his cruiser, but Wright sprang up quickly. Wright dropped the scissors before charging Burke, but it would appear that in this rapid, high-adrenaline chain of events, the officer did not clearly see this. According to the report, the object shown in Wright's hand is actually his sunglasses. Wright was shot four times and later died at hospital, despite aid rendered on-scene. About The Author