sometimes one of the biggest values in
the narrated videos that we find is
understanding the difference in Mission
between private citizens and Law
Enforcement Officers today's video is
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active self- protection welcome to
today's active self- protection lesson
I'm your host John Korea today's video
comes to us out of Northern Virginia in
the United States and it shows us an
officer who is trying to detain a man on
reasonable sus suspicion of crime of
foot and he's going to have a heck of a
tough time of it go read the news
stories on this one what you're going to
see is that this officer had Reasonable
Suspicion was out on patrol sees this
guy who reeks of marijuana who we find
out later has warrants and has scales
and stuff on him so he's he's dealing
and he's got lots of problems when he
tries to kind of take this guy into
custody tells him to put his hands
behind the back guy decides to get
violent and then start running so now
the officer is trying to take him into
custody kind of gets him on the ground
here in front of this Aldi where he's
trying now to hold his trying to get him
in cuffs and see what's going on now of
Interest here he's got a hold of both
the guys hands trying to control his
hands here and get him into custody and
now notice a whole lot of bystanders
show up so he is starting to really not
like this the officer looking trying to
control this guy and make sure none of
these bystanders are a threat to him
which can certainly happen in some spots
so what we're going to see the officer
do here is tuck that guy's hand a little
bit so that he get some space and call
what they call a signal one and what
that is is that any available officer
near nearby he needs help and he needs
it right now but it's not going to come
for quite some time so what we're seeing
the bystanders do here is start filming
on their phones while the officer gets
rolled over here and now he's in bottom
position and and thankfully the guy
didn't want any more for a minute there
he's going to run off and try to punch
the officer in the face there thankfully
he missed officer's going to stuff him
up against the glass here on this Alis
and and keep trying to get him into
custody and thankfully iy didn't go for
his gun or anything like that officers
now trying to get a hold of I think his
cuffs there and thankfully Second
Officer shows up and now they're going
to try to get this guy and cuffs
together but I'm telling you if you try
to get somebody into handcuffs that
doesn't want into handcuffs it's harder
than you think it is and people who say
oh they should have done this or they
should have done that man you if you've
never done it and tried to take somebody
into custody who doesn't want it and has
any skills at all or is angry it's
harder than you think and again there's
a whole bunch of bystanders filming but
thankfully that's all they're doing is
filming they're not a threat to the
officers or anything like that and the
officers are going to be able to take
him into custody and again go the news
story faces a host of charges a failure
to appear on a warrant and a possession
with intent to distribute and assaulting
a police officer and all that and that
is where this one ends an interesting
video for sure and one that we're going
to get to break down quite a bit got a
comment question for you out of this one
leave me a comment on your thoughts on
this have these videos really taught you
about the difference in Mission between
police and private citizens and how our
training should fit our mission leave me
a comment and let me know what you think
I know in doing them it has really led
me to really understand the importance
of contextualizing and the importance of
mission in the training that I do as a
private citizen out of today's video
that's the first thing we're going to
talk about how Mission drives not only
gear but tactics techniques and
procedures secondly we're going to talk
about the importance of empty-handed
skills and third how the bystander
effect can really work against us so as
this one gets going let's start thinking
about ground fighting here and the
principles of ground fighting first and
foremost I talked to Cecil Burch of
immediate action combatives about this
and one of the things that we always
talk about in all hand fighting is that
your priority is controlling the hands I
don't care what art you study I don't
care how it works out and again talking
with Cecil about this your hands are the
first thing you have to control because
in a real world environment they can
punch you in the face they can produce a
weapon and we say all the time the eyes
may be the windows to the soul but the
hands are the windows to the intent and
so you have to have control of the hands
or bad things happen and that means
having a robust empty-handed skill set
certainly for all law enforcement
officers and I think it's incredibly
important for law enforcement officers
to have more than what they were taught
in the academy more and invest their own
time and their own money to have a high
level of skills so that these kind of
things they can Prevail and and maybe
not even escalate a conflict because
they're confident in their empty-handed
skill set I really wish we would invest
more time and money in our officers so
that they can do that on duty but notice
here his left hand on the suspect's left
hand and he is working very hard hard to
control the hands because the hands are
where the danger comes from and in any
real world fighting your first problem
is the hands and and and it purely maybe
sport fighting and those kind of things
you may worry about other stuff you may
really kind of pay attention to hips or
shoulders or something like that but in
any kind of realistic environment man
you've got to control the hands first of
all and you have to have skills both
from the top position and the bottom
position here we see officer in a top
position from the rear has pretty good
control of the guy right now but these
are always going to be dynamic positions
you see them here has got both hands in
control incredibly important here and
now he's trying to get a hand behind the
guy's back cuz it's very hard for the
guy to hurt him with that hand that's
behind his back but now he's got to try
to get the guy into custody and this is
not going to be easy to go from here
because the guy doesn't want to be put
into custody because he's got warrants
and all this other stuff now let's think
about the bystanders here and and are
they a threat to the officer well the
officer doesn't really know that but
notice that we have at least two guys
who he doesn't know who is coming around
into this problem and this is where I
think we start to talk about the
difference really in Mission between law
enforcement officers and private
citizens the reason for that is as a
private citizen you see a fight like
this going on or whatever you don't know
what's going on and why uh you probably
don't feel as much threat unless these
people are distinctly with the guy that
you are fighting with however as a law
enforcement officer depending on where
you are in the country in many places
these can absolutely be seen as an
imminent threat to him because of the
the the frustration that some folks feel
with law enforcement now you go look
this is a completely legitimate arrest
he had reasonable suspicion he wanted to
talk to the guy and do some detaining
that was completely lawful and legal and
reasonable now you might say I don't
like the fact that he's arresting him
over drugs or whatever but that's a
discussion for another day now I will
say this instead of standing around get
some help you're not going to get this
guy you know he's not getting away from
the officer the officer is going to take
him into custody especially right here
you can see him get on his mic and
that's when he calls that signal one
he's got help on the way but even if you
don't like law enforcement even if you
say man I think that law enforcement
isn't great I'm telling you you're
better bet here is to offer assistance
to the officer officer can I help you to
get this guy into cuffs even if you say
gosh I worry about police brutality well
then help the officer get him into cuffs
because this guy's not going to get away
and the way to keep him from getting
hurt from the officer drawing his gun
because the guy goes for his gun or
something is to help him if you possibly
can I'm not saying you have to do that
but either clear the area completely or
offer to help don't just sit there and
and record on your phone to be insta
famous that's not helping anyone now
thankfully the officer has a pretty good
skill set here he's trying to get this
guy into a good spot but it's always
volatile and what happens here is the
officer gets rolled over and now he's
fighting from bottom position so in your
grappling skills in your you know
empty-handed skill set better have some
some uh very close grappling skills
standing top position and bottom
position I don't personally care what
you call that art but understanding how
to defend yourself from these positions
especially as a law enforcement officer
because you have this bat belt that's on
you or your vest and your loadbearing
vest that's got all kinds of things on
it you better be able to defend that
that stuff from somebody who wants to
take it now this guy's going to jump up
here and he is trying to get away and
run off and I think again this
highlights the difference between the
the mission of law enforcement and
private citizens so you can see right
here he's taking the swing at the
officer right now but the officer is
trying to take him into custody and when
we contextualize our our learning when
we contextualize our tactics techniques
and procedures we have to understand
that law enforcement officers have a
mission that private citizens like me
don't he has to take this guy into
custody that's what's going on here he's
detaining in this is a lawful detainment
so he's going to pursue this fight as
far as it goes until that guy is in
custody whereas me a private citizen or
you a private citizen that guy jumps up
and wants to run off we're going to let
him jump up and run off because our goal
is to break contact and of course
Mission drives more than the gear train
it does Drive the gear train but Mission
also drives tactics techniques and
procedures and if you don't understand
that you may be training for a mission
that's not your mission instead train to
your mission and understand how to carry
out your mission and what skills and
abilities you're going to need for your
mission noer does a pretty good job here
using his environment he's going to
stuff this guy up against the door
that's going to keep the guy from being
able to roll around on him give the
officer some leverage points so he
sticks his knee in him kind of an odd
belly on you know a kneeon belly right
there and then his partner shows up and
if you're working with a partner thank
God for that and that's really great
that she showed up in a hurry now you
got to communicate and I since we don't
have any audio I don't know what their
communication was but communicating
together so that you have maximum
Effectiveness so that you can see the
hands so that that you can control the
guy and get him into custody incredibly
important so there some lessons here
about the bystander effect either clear
the area completely so that you're not
at risk or even better in my opinion
help the officer if you possibly can
even if you don't like cops that's the
better way to go let have a robust
empty-handed skill set let's know what
our risks are make sure we can control
the hands to cover our asp
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