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self-protection hi everyone this is John
with today's active self-protection
lesson out of Tulsa Oklahoma in the
United States here we see an
officer-involved incident in a known
drug area a known crime infested area
and the badge cam is from their gang
unit and it escalates in a hurry plenty
to read about here in the news stories
linked in the description but we have
audio so let's listen in and then we'll
come back and learn some lessons
hey how you doing
you stay out here let me see let me see
your hands partner what do you got way
to 36-hole traffic shots fired
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well those officers did a pretty good
job of handling the chaos of a deadly
force encounter did you know that we're
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video I want to talk about the
incredible importance of marksmanship I
also want to talk about administrative
gun handling skills and communication
with your partner to keep yourself safe
first things first is another example of
why I respect law enforcement so much
they go into these kind of situations
and are walking into it I certainly
wouldn't want to do that knowing that
these kind of things can erupt and gun
fire any time now these guys you know
they're not under arrest or anything
they're just trying to see what these
guys are doing see if they can check in
on them and make sure everybody's okay
but of course this guy doesn't want to
roll his window down because he don't
want to get in a gunfight with cops
instead now when this other guy is like
hey man I don't want any of these
problems there's some interesting stuff
here number one notice that the officer
first gets his gun up and on target but
I am interested in the fact that he
doesn't just go to work shooting he gets
the gun up and on target and at first
has to verify his target that's an
incredibly important little detail here
that he didn't just go you know guns
a-blazing that he actually thought about
how can I get my gun on target and make
sure that I see what I need to see
before I shoot it's an important part of
marksmanship as much as an important
part of marksmanship is knowing how to
do the mechanics it's also knowing when
to shoot and when not to shoot when
you're not ready to shoot yet now when
he does have to go to work
notice that he puts shots in a good
place where they needed to be with a
good backstop he's paying attention to
where his partner is he's using a good
backstop in this particular instance and
using a good cadence for the time that
he has and for the distance that his
shot is going in so he's shooting
rapidly here again because he has a
fairly close about a five-yard target
and so he's able to shoot quickly and
put the shots on target and not endanger
bystanders these kind of skills friends
you have to learn on the range you have
to learn in force-on-force you have to
work on in practice now then once the
threat is over you notice he stops and I
do want to pay attention to the fact
here that he is strafe to the left if
you go back and you kind of pay
attention here the officer did not stand
still so standing still marksmanship is
but he was moving backwards and now to
his left and as his backstop starts to
change
he stops shooting and he's also paying
attention to his partner and to the
other guy who's all the way to the right
who is also a potential threat so this
is all part of the marksmanship task
which is a big deal when you're in an
actual deadly force encounter he's gonna
start communicating here and you notice
he communicates with that guy who was in
the driver's seat of this car first and
starts talking he's he's communicating
all around he's talking on his radio
he's talking to this other guy who they
have stopped now he's talking to his
partner knowing when to shoot and when
to communicate incredibly important and
being able to stay in that thinking part
this is what force-on-force classes
teach and he can't teach it fully but
he's communicating incredibly well and
knowing how to communicate what to say
how to say it in a simple manner is an
important thing that you do learn in
force-on-force classes I also think it's
kind of important here you're gonna see
him get a hold of his partner here and
not communicate with him verbally but
hold on to him so that they don't get
each other off the line I think this is
an important and often overlooked bit
when we communicate we communicate not
only verbally but we also communicate
using our body you can communicate with
physical touch and so he grabs ahold of
him here so that he doesn't lose that
you know the ability to keep them both
safe excellent work there now our
officer is gonna go and he's about to
reload his gun and you notice here as we
slow it down he's gonna do what we call
a tactical reload he knows he's a little
bit depleted in his gun so he gets
another one up there and now he's gonna
key his mic again and then he's gonna
stuff that back now I get it and and all
law-enforcement academies that I know of
they teach a tactical reload like this a
retention reload and now his gun hands
finally back up there and he's going I'm
gonna suggest instead a proactive reload
most police officers carry at least
three magazines on them I have never
heard of or seen an officer who ever had
to use a retained magazine to win a
gunfight and so instead just getting
that second magazine up dropping the the
partially depleted one out just
forgetting about it putting the new mag
in the gun and getting back on target is
a faster way to go about that of course
not talking about police procedures
there I'm merely talking about topping
the gun off in the quickest manner
possible all things considered I think
these Tulsa officers did a fantastic job
the officer that we see the
badge came here really did a good job of
using his firearm effectively of
communicating well of administrative Lee
Han dling his gun he covered his ass
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