A POLICE officer stands his ground before the gunman involved in yesterday's Queen Strett Mall shutdown. PIC: Michael Millier Source: The Courier-Mail
ONE brave senior constable stands his ground as the heavily tattooed man strides towards him, a gun tucked behind his back.
The officer from Ferny Grove, in Brisbane's west, captured in one of dozens of dramatic images from yesterday's drama, was one of dozens called in when a gunman pulled a pistol on two plainclothes officers in the busy Queen Street Mall.
The policeman, who was not wearing a bulletproof vest, stood calmly as the crazed father of three struts back and forth.
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It was not the first time the officer has stared down danger - he had previously earned a bravery award for ending another siege several years ago.
The then Australian Federal Police officer was recognised for his part in disarming a man when a house party got out of control in Canberra.
"A young fellow had barricaded himself in someone else's house after a party and he was fairly intoxicated," he told The Westerner newspaper in 2010.
"We tried to negotiate with him while he was inside the house for about half an hour, and all of a sudden he burst out of the house carrying a couple of large kitchen knives . . .
Police take down a gunman after a tense stand-off in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall. PIC: Michael Millier
eventually he ran at myself and my team leader.
"We subdued him and disarmed him and he was arrested for threatening police officers."
Officers from Indooroopilly to Ferny Grove, Fortitude Valley and the CBD hit the Queen Street Mall yesterday, taking only five minutes to evacuate thousands of shoppers and lock down businesses.
Heavily armed Special Emergency Response Team officers - trained specifically for high-risk arrests - were called in, using an armoured vehicle to enter the scene.
Photographer Michael Millier, 67, who took the photograph of the police officer and the gunman, said he watched as officers used bean bag rounds to take down the gunman.
"When the gun was being pointed to the ground, that is when police moved in from about three different directions," he said.
"It sounded like about 50 crack shots - it wasn't gun fire.
Heavily armed SERT police officers arrive at the Queen Street Mall in Brisbane's CBD.
"He must have been getting stung. He dropped the pistol, he was obviously in a lot of pain."
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