The contents of this chapter, in whole or in part, must not be used freely outside the context of this book.
You have full access to this open access chapter, Download chapter PDF
So, he fell down on the bridge on his front, and I jumped in just grabbed his wrists and I lay on his back. People came and started hitting him and punching his head and I was shouting, “No, don’t hit him, don’t hit him”.
I shifted my body weight to protect Khan’s head. And that was an interesting thing because reflecting on that I’m really proud of that, because we had isolated the threat and it’s just barbaric to hit a man who can’t defend himself.
Darryn Frost is a survivor of the London Bridge Attack 2019 and a co-founder of ‘Own Merit’. In 2023, he received a Queen’s Gallantry Medal for his brave actions on 29 November 2019. On that day, he risked his own life to stop an armed attack by Usman Khan. Despite the horrific nature of the attack, Frost continued to see Khan as a human being. When police arrived at the scene, they shot the attacker.
Photograph by Alejandro Acin, Visual Artist, Designer and Educator, www.alejandroacin.com.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
Copyright information
© 2024 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Acin, A., Frost, D. (2024). Hands. In: Karcher, K., Dimcheva, Y., Toribio Medina, M., Parkes, M. (eds) Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53789-9_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53789-9_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-53788-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-53789-9
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)