Nobody was killed when a maniac with a chainsaw went on a rampage. Cohasset Police Department can’t take nearly as much credit for keeping the public safe as they claim. 35-year-old Brien Buckley attacked their station with a chainsaw. The southeast Massachusetts cops couldn’t even defend that and let him escape. He went home and terrorized his kids for a few hours until the police finally tazed him down.
Maniac terrorizes police
Police in Cohasset, Massachusetts, didn’t pay nearly as much attention as they should have, when local maniac Brien Buckley called them up. He asked them to “babysit his children.” They knew him. “Public records indicate Buckley has been arrested at least seven times in the past for other misdemeanors. Among his arrests include charges for assault, drug distribution, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, and vandalism.”
They declined but aren’t saying another word about why he asked or what his general state of mind was at the time. He hung up and they thought that was the end of it. They were wrong. He came down armed with a chainsaw.
Instead of taking some kind of positive steps toward intervention of a potential crisis, the police ignored the maniac. Such an unusual request should have triggered alarm bells.
They probably laughed about it behind his back. Maybe even in front of his face. All the public knows, so far, is this. When Buckley arrived, hours later, he used a chainsaw to “terrorize” the civilian desk attendant.
The sitterless maniac left his toddlers home alone while “damaging the station’s lobby in an attempt to get in.” He made a dramatic entrance. “Buckley arrived at the station by driving his truck directly onto the lawn outside and struck a tree on the property.”
Using the chainsaw, “Buckley tried to cut through the security door of the station. A desk attendant for the police department was able to barricade herself and hide while calling for officers to help her.”
Children at risk
After the maniac “went in and basically terrorized the civilian desk attendant who was behind the security door and security glass,” he “fled to his nearby home, located just a half a mile away from the police department’s headquarters.”
Police let him get away, putting his children at risk. A stand-off ensued.
In the home were Buckley’s son and daughter, “both under the age of five.” At one point, the maniac “dangled” the toddlers “in front of an upstairs window.” He stuck his head out the window wearing a rabbit ear hoodie. He was throwing things out the window.
“Officers at the scene were concerned for the safety of the children inside the home due to the man’s erratic behavior.” His behavior was erratic enough to care then, but not when he asked police to watch his kids?
SWAT Police tried to reason with the unreasonable maniac for “several hours” while they avoided taking any action which might get them shot. After a while, somebody realized the kids were awful quiet. “We hadn’t seen or heard from the kids in over 2 hours, hour and a half two hours and at that point the decision was made that we have to go in,” admits Chief William Quigley.
After they broke the door in and tazed him, they handed the kids to their mom and took Buckley for a psych evaluation. He’s been charged with “assault by means of a dangerous weapon with a chainsaw, three counts of damage to property, two counts of child endangerment, resisting arrest, driving to endanger, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and wanton destruction of a tree.“
