https://youtu.be/txoCOebILZk
The best part of this video showing cops tangling with knife-wielding maniacs is it's at least three layers of cultural recapitulation deep: the posed 80s-era "original", the implicitly late-20th-century comic milieux implied by its ironic presentation, the 2000s upload, and its recurring virality in 2020.
Thanks to Everything is Terrible, of course.
Previously:
Chinese police explain how to deal with a knife-wielding attacker
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