SAN JOSE — A police officer was stabbed in the arm Tuesday morning while arresting a man who minutes earlier had threatened a security guard with a machete, according to the San Jose Police Department.
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Officers were called at 9:49 a.m. to a business near Coleman Avenue and Taylor Street — about a mile away from police headquarters — for a report of a man who brandished a machete at an armed security guard, police said.
The man with the machete reportedly dropped the blade and then ran off. Responding officers spotted the man and were working to detain him when he pulled out a second knife and stabbed one of the officers in the arm, police said.
Both the officer and the arrested man were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police did not release additional details, and said an “investigation is ongoing.”