This Abbruzzetti’s only record was some traffic tickets. What set the dude off? Getting less lethal rounds shot close to the privates was the solution.
On Oct. 15 shortly before 9 p.m., MPD responded to a David Avenue residence on a report of a drunk man, identified as 24-year-old Giuseppi Abbruzzetti, “breaking items inside and acting erratically,” Lt. Ethan Andrews said. A trained crisis negotiator was also on scene, but Abbruzzetti refused to talk.
He then crawled out a bedroom window holding a sheathed sword and began walking on David Avenue, Andrews said, and when officers ordered him to drop the sword, he refused. “One officer deployed pepper spray at Abbruzzetti’s face, while another officer deployed five 40mm sponge rounds that struck his hip and hand,” he said. “Abbruzzetti then dropped the sword, and he was taken to the ground by officers and arrested.”
