dealing with someone who is on drugs is
always a dicey proposition welcome to
today's active self-protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa today's
educational lesson comes to us out of
Appleton Wisconsin in the United States
it shows a man who officers are involved
reviving out of an overdose of opioids
after thorough testing I recently
changed my everyday OC spray to pom
personal defense spray it's nasty stuff
and I recommend it highly
the original badge cams on this one are
over 30 minutes long they show officers
coming to the aid of a man along with
paramedics and Fire who they have found
in an unresponsive State on a bus and he
is involved in agonal breathing which
means that he is actively dying from an
opium overdose that gave him a couple of
shots of narcan which woke him right up
and that's where we are going to
continue on with this at first the badge
cam that we're watching here is Sergeant
beasts and we will come back and see a
second badge cam when his is done
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I'm not that's not the goal okay
I want to make sure you're packing nice
listen
I cannot you know I'm gonna get out a
tingle not go
you had an audio version get a medical
emergency
then I'm having your hon okay look one
I've been withdrawn so for listening we
took four pain meds that were not
prescribed to you that caused you to
damn near died on the bus you don't feel
it or you don't want to believe it but
that's what happened they gave you
throat alone I'm just I'm telling them
I'm being cool with just telling you
they gave you a drug that's going to
potentially wear off and cause you to
stop breathing that's what those old boy
weights do they will shut you off and
that's what was going on i dude all I
need you to do
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oh oh I don't you fall over I'm not
gonna put all your how to do just go to
the hospital get checked out if they say
you're okay then you're on your way I
don't I don't I am ill get home
listen I talked to my boss the only
other alternative to you not going
voluntary if you go voluntary you hop on
the cot you ride down there is checked
out it's done if you don't go
voluntarily here's what I have to do I
feel that you're not making a safe
choice in your vessel that wait I'm not
making you're making advances you're not
making a safe choice in your best
interest and I have to involve crisis we
have to go to the hospital anyway to
start that process and we have to have
them evaluate to make sure that you're
making safe decisions yourself I don't
want to go that's my phone don't worry
lift up your shirt then I just never
lose your phone you're sure we want to
make sure every safe
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this badge cam is from officer
Christensen who was injured by the perp
Ruben Houston and we have audio from
that one as well so let's listen in to
what happens
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weekend out of today's video want to
think about some significant lessons
including pre attack indicators
including the incredible importance of
marksmanship at bigger distances and why
we talk all the time on the channel
about spiritual fitness so let's start
this one with the discussion of this man
Ruben Houston's rights okay so he is
denying them a search of his person well
if you go read the news stories that
I've linked in the description
this guy's a prohibited possessor okay
he's a multiple time felon and he has a
firearm on his person that apparently
his family didn't even know he had so we
know why he doesn't want them to search
him because he has a firearm on him and
that's gonna be another felony and he's
gonna go to prison for a long time and
this guy has been battling a significant
amounts of mental illness and he's been
battling drug addiction as well so he's
just woke up from the narcan and the
officers are playing this one very soft
because people have a Fourth Amendment
right to protection against unreasonable
searches and seizures the Fourth
Amendment protects the right that you
have to be secure in your person and in
your property so he has the right to say
no and and friends I tell folks this all
the time you have the right to say I do
not consent to any searches and if an
officer has probable cause that a crime
has been committed or incident to arrest
they can search you without your
permission so one of the things that you
do have to ask for is am I free to go
and if Houston had simply said hey am I
free to go or am I being detained and
they said no you're not being detained
or yes you're free to go then turn
around and walk the heck away and get
away from there and that could have
avoided this whole thing now of course
everything that goes down here is
Houston's fault and I'm not defending
him in the slightest but I do want to
recognize that you do have the right to
be private in your person in private in
your possessions and to say I don't
consent to any searches and I don't
my rights and if officers do have
probable cause that a crime has been
committed then they will not ask you for
permission they will simply take you
into custody and do so now that being
said he's doing so because he's a
dirtbag and he has a gun on him when he
shouldn't have a gun on him and so gosh
you know I you know I hear the idea that
some people say well why don't you just
allow it to happen and if you don't have
anything to hide let him search now I
still think that defending your rights
is really important and so I really
honor these officers for doing a good
job of maintaining the constitutional
rights of this man and I think most cops
do a great job of that and I'm really
proud of him for doing that now I do
want to see here that what you see is
officer Christensen reaching out there
because Houston reaches back and starts
to you know touch that gun now recognize
that he said already hey man you have a
bulge on your right hip and I want to
see what that is because it's worrying
me a little bit now depending on your
jurisdiction officers can if they have
an investigative stop for their safety
do a quick pat-down you know those are
Terry stops and those kind of things you
can go and do some research on Terry
versus Ohio for that but if you see that
kind of thing going on recognize that
that bad guys many times will Pat where
the weapon is or Pat where the drugs are
and so notice here as well that Houston
reaches out and pushes officer
Christensen's hand away huge warning
flag right there huge pre attack
indicator so I really want you to pay
attention to that if somebody you know
you say hey wait a minute this is here
and he reaches and pushes that hand away
specifically and particularly as a law
enforcement officer you know you've got
problems there friend and you better pay
attention to that now you got to know
that if he decides to go for that hip in
that moment and pull away from you that
you have to dive in and stop that action
immediately because otherwise you're
gonna get in a gunfight like here and
you'd much rather escalate to a physical
conflict to keep the gun in the holster
then get it out of the holster if at all
possible because you can see him now
backing off hey man I got problems with
cops whatever well of course he does
he's a convicted felon he's had
significantly negative interactions with
cops but once he starts going right here
you notice right here he is reaching for
his gun and right then you have to
recognize whatever is coming out of that
pocket is not a good thing he has denied
me access to that pocket now I know
things are going bad you better go take
control of that hand quickly because
otherwise it escalates into a gunfight
and again I think these officers did a
fantastic job of maintaining his
constitutional rights but they did so at
extreme peril to themselves and you got
to know when it's time to
stop talking and start going I've
cleared this with my EMS friends and
that's one of the big things they said
when it's time to go you got to get
after these guys to keep them from
hurting each other now notice here that
he gets the gun out and he has to
chamber the gun so he's carrying a 380
on his hip and a crappy nylon holster
that he has to pull and then he has to
chamber that gave the officer time but
the officer had about four seconds the
guy to get the gun out chambered and on
target and get a shot off took him about
four point three seconds if you watch
the time stamps and in that time as an
officer or as a defender when this goes
down you got to recognize oh no I need
to get a gun in the fight right now and
get some shots on this guy right now and
so this is why I draw the first shot
that's fast and accurate is incredibly
important and recognize here that we see
that Officer Christensen has the gun up
and moving so he actually has the gun
out first so when I talk to people all
the time as a firearm stringer and I say
it is incredibly important for you to
have a fast and accurate draw and first
second and third shot to be able to put
a threat down very very quickly this is
exactly why I say so
not just the first shot but multiple
shots because officer Christensen had
the gun out right now now notice as well
that he's wearing gloves
he's wearing his you know nitrile gloves
as the ones that he has on there so
sometimes shooting with those things on
something that I would recommend that
everyone do whether you're wear gloves
in the winter you know that are for
warmth or whatever or these kind of
gloves when you're you know helping
somebody as a law enforcement officer
know how to shoot with them incredibly
important now the gunfight is starting
and I want to notice here that what
we're seeing from the sergeant is he's
coming over and I want to check this
shot notice what's going on here not
only do we have the bad guy fleeing us
but we have a bystander oh good ways
away to the left that he is running
towards so is this guy a deadly threat
heck yes he is he's just shot at
officers he's absolutely a deadly threat
and if you notice he is running towards
a woman who is sitting on the curb side
right here and you could see her right
there and he is running towards her to
take her as a hostage so let's think
about the shot that the sergeant has to
hit here is that if you do the math you
do the Pythagorean theorem that the bus
is about 45 feet long the streets about
25 feet across what you see is this is a
15 to 18 yard shot on a target that is
quartering away from you and at a run no
small feat which is why I say
marksmanship is king you have to get out
to the range you have to get
instruction you have to be able to hit
these shots at 15 20 25 yards because
you may need to do that to save lives
and so that's what we see from Sergeant
beasts that he's having to put shots on
target and that's why he closes the
distance here now notice the backstop I
want to pay attention here to how small
this marksmanship problem is that he's
shooting at that there is a hostage to
the right side of his target and so one
of the things that we talk about all the
time is eliminating that let low push
particularly for most right-handed
shooters it's a low left push but when
you have a hostage so many times I see
this on camera that hostage is low is on
the low side of the target and so when
you press Annie and you have that flinch
that anticipation from from you know
over gripping the firearm or gripping
with the whole hand when you press the
trigger you put them at risk high levels
of marksmanship are required for these
kinds of problems friends and even if
you're not a cop that might be your
family member that you have to defend so
you gotta put shots on them now sergeant
beast falls down here we'll talk about
that in a little while but he does get
up and get himself to a position of
cover okay great this is still an active
threat he gets himself in a better
position but notice now he kneels he's
in a kneeling position here trying to
get shots off on this guy and if you
heard one of them you heard it actually
hit this you know stop sign Pole that's
right here on the street
once again friends marksmanship and
marksmanship from unconventional
positions so the officer here is
kneeling and kneeling around a tree
which is a hard piece of cover and using
that as a stabilizing platform okay
great but also we still continue to be
at about 20 to 25 yards of distance here
and that's a high level marksmanship
problem and if you have a practice from
an unconventional position you'll have a
hard time hitting from there so make
sure you get to enough training and
enough practice that you can do that and
that would be required on that day now
notice that the woman in this was hit in
the head and and she survived thankfully
but that hostage was hit I don't know if
she who she was hit by but that's a big
problem now we're gonna see here from
Officer Christensen's camera now I'm
gonna say if that was the start of his
draw and once again it's gonna take him
about four seconds but notice that
officer Christensen is first on target
however his shot is only going to come
on target about two frames before the
bad guy shot you need to hit him with
enough time in advance of when
he can hit you that it starts the feds
factor in the fence a factor the fact
fact that that didn't happen the officer
Christiansen waited to shoot that guy
for some time contributing to him being
hit as well officer Christensen was hit
as well as one other firefighter who
paid with his life on this one friends
so there was officer shot that one came
through very quickly so he made first
hit and good on him for that he saw the
problem and what we see in human
performance factors here is many times
it's not the physical act of drawing
that takes so much time but it's
recognizing when the time to draw is so
we say get really fast on that time
because by the time your brain catches
up oh no I need to shoot someone it is
critical time and you got to be able to
do that quickly and then make the right
decision I see a guy with a gun and he
is a threat to me I'm gonna get after
him so notice here that what we're gonna
see is then it's just a couple of frames
later that that guy shoots back at the
officers and he did hit officer
Christensen with that first shot I
believe so again he didn't hit him
enough in advance that it affected the
guy's aim so by the time they the guy
had already pressed the trigger had
already done as much lining up the
sights as he was gonna do and he didn't
have enough time for fibs to do anything
about it
so be faster and more accurate with your
pistol the more faster and more fast the
more accurate you can be the better
chance you get him doing things that
means he's going to miss you again I
don't blame the officer for that at all
now notice here we have both a
firefighter and a paramedic who are
running for hardcover talk to my friend
Mark who is a long standing paramedic in
the San Diego area and this is one of
his things for all EMS professionals is
that one things start going down you run
hard for hard cover and run hard as fast
as you can because your life is in
danger and unfortunately one of these
firefighters I'm not sure which one it
was paid with his life for this and that
wasn't his fault at all and he was only
doing good work trying to help this guy
and his death is an absolute tragedy and
and these kind of things do happen
though so that's why we talk about man
making sure you have a strong
relationship with Jesus and saying
everything you need to say to your loved
ones because you don't know when that
day is gonna be now I do want to notice
here as well then what we saw of
sergeant beast that he was moving
backwards when he fell down and noticed
there's nothing in his way he just
tripped over his feet he got a center of
gravity outside of his base and that
made him fall over now that's not
something that that is it is
something that I'm gonna blame him for
but it is something I'm gonna say in
your training learn how to back up with
some rapidity but keep your center of
gravity over your base while you can
because when he was falling over the gun
was pointing everywhere and he wasn't
able to defend himself very effectively
at all in that time so make sure you're
practicing moving to the rear while
you're shooting now if you notice here
officer Christensen still wounded he is
hurt but he is still in the fight great
emotional fitness from him here to be
able to keep putting rounds at that guy
but think about this distance problem if
I said the last one was about 18 yards
maybe you know 15 to 18 yards this one
is 20 to 25 yards even harder shot
especially while injured so that's why
your skills have got to be strong then
he's gonna call in hey I'm injured you
know officer hit or whatever and I'm
gonna say best thing that you want to do
in that instance yes you want to get to
doing some first-aid on yourself but
deal with the threat first best first
aid is to ventilate the bad guy make him
stop wanting to fight you then start
assessing your injuries and doing buddy
care did I hit him easy down do I need
to hit him again did he bring any
friends to the fight I'm I okay and is
it everybody else okay that's the way
that I learned it from the legendary
lawman Chuck Haggard that's the way that
I want you to do that boy there's an
awful lot to learn out of this one some
significant stuff to talk about
about marksmanship about that fast draw
the first shot you ask some spiritual
fitness things here friends that we got
to talk about about moving with a gun in
your hand about being first so that you
can get out of there without injury and
cover your ass
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