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Crowd Control: Chernyk and Commonwealth Stadium

crowd control: It is a testament to his strength, but also to his training and just to the excellence of first-responders right across this country that he was able to keep a cool head in the most chaotic and violent of circumstances, Trudeau said, according to National Observer. Chernyk had been working crowd control outside a Canadian Football League game at Commonwealth Stadium on Sept. 30 when he was hit by a car that rammed through a barrier and sent him flying through the air. Mike Chernyk on Saturday during a visit to the Alberta capital and thanked the officer for his efforts, which the Prime Minister said helped save lives. The driver then got out, pulled out a large knife and began stabbing Chernyk, who fought back as he was lying on the ground. On the morning after the attack I was, like so many Canadians, watching online in disbelief the footage of him being flung across the road and then viciously attacked, Trudeau told reporters shortly after meeting Chernyk and his daughter at Edmonton's police headquarters on Saturday. Hours after Chernyk was injured, a cube van with police cars in pursuit drove down Jasper Avenue and hit four pedestrians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.