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An attack on a police officer, who was stabbed after being rammed by a car with an Islamic State flag on the dashboard, and a high-speed chase that injured four pedestrians Saturday evening in Edmonton, Canada, are being investigated as “acts of terrorism,” police said.
The mayhem began at around 8:15 p.m. when a white Chevrolet Malibu with an IS flag crashed through barricades and rammed an officer who was directing traffic before an Edmonton Eskimos football game, Police Chief Rod Knecht said at a Sunday morning news conference.
The car sent the officer “flying through the air 15 feet before colliding with the officer’s cruiser” at high speed, he said.
The driver then got out of his vehicle and stabbed the officer multiple times before fleeing.
Knecht said the officer’s wounds are not “critical.”
Around midnight, as a manhunt was underway across the city, officers pulled over a U-Haul truck at a checkpoint. The name of the truck driver was close to the name of the registered owner of the car that hit the officer.
The suspect peeled out with dozens of police cars in pursuit.
The driver “deliberately tried to hit pedestrians in crosswalks and alleys” during the high-speed chase on downtown streets, Knecht said.
“There were people flying and everything,” eyewitness Kim Anderson told the Edmonton Journal. “I’m shocked - I just see people flying.”
Four pedestrians were taken to the hospital after being struck. Their conditions are unknown.
The U-Haul eventually overturned near a downtown hotel and police dragged the driver...