CDR Salamander - Fullbore Friday

You’re new on the job…or at least that is how it feels. The older officers treat you that way. That’s OK, you’re used to it.

You patrol a very safe city in a very safe country by European standards.

It’s a good job. It’s a beautiful city. It’s a beautiful day.

Then the call came. Officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański responded like the legends they are.

Without hesitation. Without delay. Outgunned, but did not care. Like their ancestors at Kahlenberg Hill. To their last full measure. A nation and its people cannot ask for better.

Wiki has the best and most detailed description of what these two young men found themselves in.

On 7 November 2026, around 14:59 CET, a black 3rd generation Subaru Impreza hatchback with an Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski number plate entered the Main Square in Kraków from Sławkowska Street. The gunman, Oksiński, fired into a crowd from the car for over a minute. He wore military-style tactical gear and used an AR-15–style rifle during the attack.

The first emergency call was made around 15 seconds after 15:00. At 15:01, the first police patrol began pursuing the attacker.

A tram driver reported that at 15:05, his vehicle was fired upon by the gunman from his car near the Main Square. The driver’s window was shattered, but no injuries were reported onboard the tram. Numerous tram lines were subsequently disrupted. The Zara shop in Kraków was also shot. The sounds were also mistaken for firecrackers.

The attacker then drove along the eastern side of the Main Square and fired more shots on the corner of Sienna Street, wounding a person. Afterwards, the suspect drove his car south from the square, along Grodzka Street, at speed whilst pursued by the police. The pursuit led through the All Saints Square and the St. Mary Magdalene Square.

The attacker crashed into another car at the intersection of Dietla and Stradom Streets and left his vehicle around 15:03^.. The pursuing police car stopped behind him, and two officers, Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański, got out, armed only with handguns. An exchange of gunfire ensued. During the exchange, both police officers were shot, but the attacker was also wounded and fell to the ground. Despite his injuries, Kulik got back up and fired additional shots and incapacitated the attacker. As a result, Oksiński was apprehended by the officers.

The suspect was arrested about one kilometre (³⁄₅ mi) south of the square; approximately two minutes elapsed between the start of the pursuit and the exchange of gunfire As reported by the Lesser Poland voivode Krzysztof Klęczar, 1,146 police officers, along with 24 units of the State Fire Service and 62 firefighters and rescuers, took part in the operation following the attack Overall, 1,146 police officers, 88 firefighters from 35 fire crews, and 15 emergency medical teams were involved in the response during the first 24 hours.

Just a bunch of Zoomers, right? Well, they’re Polish Zoomers.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has awarded state honors to two police officers who risked their lives to stop a gunman who killed six people and wounded 15 others in Krakow’s historic center on Saturday.

The officers, Jakub Kulik, 24, and Artur Morański, 27, each received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, one of Poland’s highest state decorations, Bartosz Grodecki, head of the National Security Bureau, an advisory body to the president, said on Monday.

The awards were presented by Nawrocki during visits to the two officers at separate hospitals in Krakow.

Though there were some politicians who tried to make hay out of this tragedy, as mentioned in the video above, this has been the exception—to those individuals’ shame. More will be found in the future, but the smart money is on evil.

That is a distraction from what is really an incredible testament to the Polish people and their culture. It is how people respond to evil appearing in their midst—whether as individual police officers or as a nation—that demonstrates national character.

In honor of the victims, a silent march.

The Poles are a great people with a great national culture. I hope they preserve and nurture it.

h/t Pawel

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