OPD responds to claims about police response before downtown stabbing

Orlando police are responding to social media claims that officers failed to act after someone reported a person waving a knife before Friday night’s stabbing in downtown Orlando.The department’s new timeline follows Channel 9’s previous coverage of video from the confrontation and witness accounts that the man who was stabbed had threatened another man and possessed a knife before the fight.Police arrested Deaveon Jaquan Brown after the stabbing near Orange Avenue and Central Boulevard.According to the Orlando Police Department, someone called at 10:10 p.m. to report a person waving a knife near 22 S. Magnolia Avenue.Two OPD bike units were dispatched at 10:13 p.m. and arrived three minutes later, police said. Officers searched the area but could not find the person.At about 10:31 p.m., officers saw two people fighting near Orange Avenue and Central Boulevard.OPD said video evidence shows the victim had a knife and a belt before placing the knife on the ground. Police said Brown then