Shocking footage shows ‘bleeding’ police officers wrestle to restrain ‘machete-wielding’ man on a South London street as frightened families look on

This is the shocking moment a police officer was ‘bleeding’ while others wrestled to restrain a ‘machete-wielding’ man in London. 

Video footage posted on X shows a man being held to the ground and handcuffed by police officers.

The incident happened on a street in south London as frightened families watched nearby. 

An officer then instructs another to put his ‘hand up in the air’ and to ‘get a bandage put on’.

Video footage shows a man being held to the ground and handcuffed by police officers in south London

An officer stood nearby had what appears to be a large cut on his hand and a substance that seemed to be blood was splattered on the pavement 

The incident happened on a street in south London as frightened families watched the man being restrained nearby

Red drops of what appears to be blood can be seen splattered across the pavement.

A small crowd looks on while one of the officers holding the man to the floor talks into his radio and mentions a ‘large machete’ and ‘an officer with injuries’.

The camera then pans to show a man stood holding his hand which seems to have a large bleeding cut on one of his fingers.

A police car can be seen as it pulls up and parks nearby on the path with sirens blaring. 

MailOnline has contacted the Metropolitan Police for a comment.