even for those of us who carry force
multipliers like firearms empty-headed
skills are crucial I'm John Correa your
host here at active self-protection
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on the range guy walking towards the car
here had been released an hour earlier
from prison over coronavirus fears from
out of jail he was jailed for assault on
his neighbor so he walks over to this
cop and just punches him right in the
face and now that officer is going to
get out he's actually at a closed mall
but the guy who had been released was
told not to go back to his house cuz he
had assaulted his roommate and so he's
wandering around in the the hazmat suit
that they gave him at the police
department so now our officer gets his
baton out because dude has punched him
in the face
but that presence of that baton dudes
just like nah I don't really care and he
is gonna start walking our officer down
now what you can see here is officers
gonna try to get here into a good shot
in the leg to get that guy to go down
but that just makes him angry so he
actually takes the baton away from the
officer hits him there and now our
officer is down and much incapacitated
it's gonna kick him in the head here and
start punching him in the head
now this one's gonna get hard to watch
friends as he is just absolutely pounds
on the officer several times and then is
going to just get off of him here but
he's still got the officers baton
actually I think he dropped it there and
then went back and picked it up for a
second time hits him a couple more times
hits him in the face with the baton and
and again the news story if you go read
the one that is linked in the
description says then he hit him at
least eight times this officer is armed
with a handgun and I will say this when
when the officer decides in that moment
he said not to get his handgun out of
its Sena in a retention holster and it's
a very high level like a level 3
retention holster and he said he didn't
want to get it out in case the guy took
it away from him
so decides to leave it there and what
happens because of that is dudes gonna
hit him again and now chase him down
some more and you can see your guy
actually goes and tries to get the
officer's gun out of his holster you can
see this officer is just completely out
of it trying to get over
and keep this guy from getting to his
gun but he's really out of it guy gives
up because he can't get it away from him
now thankfully the officer is gonna be
able to get up and get his wits about
him and call for help
help did arrive they did end up chasing
this guy for quite some time took him
back into custody and he's facing a
whole host of felony charges the officer
had to go to the hospital had two broken
eye sockets and a bunch of other damage
that's where this one ends boy that's
pretty insane stuff I'm curious from you
what kind of empty-handed skills you
study so sound off tell me your art
style or what you kind of studied belt
level if your art and style has belts do
you know my background have a second
degree black belt in a derivative of
Kempo known as ooh mas and attitude
first martial arts Academy here in
Phoenix Arizona I've been doing jujitsu
for a little over a year now still makes
me a white belt so I mean nobody at that
how about you let's hear from you huh
all right lessons coming so okay this
guy is angry at police because he's just
been arrested for assaulting his his
roommate and then the judge told him to
stay away from his house so he's just
wandering about looking for somebody to
take his anger out on and this officer
obviously represents that which has just
made his life miserable and so he's
decided to attack we see this more and
more in our society today people
attacking police officers just for being
police officers so to my cop friends
watch out because that uniform actually
makes you a target as terrible as that
sounds now then no morning dude just
walks over of course people wonder why
cops are a little reticent for people to
walk up on him because he just walks
over and punches him right in the face
that's a pretty significant thing to
just walk up to a cop and punch him
right in the face in my opinion pretty
brash and brazen thing but again that's
the society that we live in today so you
want to watch out for those kinds of
things and I think this is a pourraient
and I think that as a society we should
absolutely condemn this because again
the vast majority of law enforcement
officers are good saying sober moral
people trying to protect their community
and do right and just put bad folks in
jail now our officer gets out and I'm
gonna be real I think that that
unfortunately some of this is a result
of what we're seeing in our society is
right now that guy just assaulted a
police officer and quite frankly he
needs to be tased
he needs to be OC sprayed dude needs to
be knocked on his butt taken back into
custody and gone however it sure seems
that this officer gives him an
incredible
amount of leeway and the reason that he
gives him that much leeway is because he
says well you know wait a minute I've
got to be cautious of you know how I'm
gonna do this and I've got to be very
wary of using too much force well you
gotta be wary of using too little force
as well and that's for all of us as self
defenders so he decides to get out his
baton gotta be honest with me I'm not a
big fan of the baton as a self-defense
tool because it takes a lot of space to
use it can be used as a deadly force
tool now it's good for manipulations and
those things and control techniques but
as a striking tool it can become deadly
force very very quickly and you need a
lot of space to use it well so I
generally speaking I'm not a big fan of
the baton a lot of departments are going
away from the baton for just those
reasons I think that's wise
now noticing that Officer starts backing
up and he's trying to find a spot to get
at that guy however you can't back up as
fast as a guy can run at you forward
it's just not possible
so recognize if he wants to close the
distance with you've got a baton he's
going to close that distance
you better have a significant empty
handed skill set in order to handle this
guy because again the baton is a great
tool but you got to be ready for your
force multiplier to fail for him to
close the distance and for you to have
to go hands-on that's a pretty big thing
here now note he took the baton away
from the officer now it's gonna get used
against him quite simply in my opinion
at this point you got to protect your
head and neck get in on this guy and go
and the officer doesn't and again I'm
not blaming him for that it split-second
things very difficult to see but he gets
hit in the head with this first one and
it rings his Bell so bad it sets him up
for the beating to come any of us are
susceptible to that takes incredible
emotional fitness and sometimes even
with the greatest emotional fitness you
get your bell rung that hard by a baton
you're gonna go down like a sack of
flour but recognize if he could dive in
protect his head and neck that he might
be able to have the time in the space I
will say that absolutely was a deadly
strike and as it is the officer
justified to use deadly force they're a
hundred percent but right now he doesn't
have the positional dominance to draw
his firearm if he tries to draw his
firearm and defeats his security
mechanisms and his retention mechanisms
on the gun that's probably the bad guys
gun at this point so I actually do think
hey man it is probably okay in that
moment and you probably didn't want to
to go for the gun and instead want to
protect the gun very difficult to watch
him beat on the officer here and again
having some understanding of how to
control this and control the limbs and
try to just just hunker down on this guy
would probably be his best bet now he's
got some space here but the guy comes
real quick grabs his baton and starts
beating on him again and in these cases
guys you've got to protect your head and
your neck and your face you got to get
your arms up there and use that vertical
shield and the horizontal shield and
you'll learn those kinds of things on
the mat you know you can talk about them
on YouTube and those things but you
really got to learn them on the mat and
and work with training partners that you
trust so then that way you can you know
protect yourself and I think he had his
space here if he had the emotional
fitness to get up get his gun out he has
enough time to get it and get on this
guy and I think that that is the right
solution here honestly I think this guy
needed to be shot so it's not just can I
shoot this guy not just should I shoot
this guy must I shoot this guy and I
think the answer to all of that is yes
so I really think that the officer you
know should have got the gun out here if
he could have but he didn't feel like he
could in the moment and do so in a way
that he was sure that the guy wasn't
gonna get his gun it's a great reason to
be fast with your draw and your first
shot because you will need it in that
day when bad things happen and because
he doesn't have it the guy gets after
him again and is now going to try to
actually grab his firearm so we see the
bad guy going for the gun here and this
is absolutely now without any question
beyond a shadow of a doubt a deadly
force incident anybody tried to take an
officer's gun is trying to kill them
certainly before this anybody trying to
use a baton on someone's head is trying
to kill them you hit somebody in the
head with a baton that is absolutely a
deadly attack without any question so is
is this a justified use of deadly force
if the officer did yes unequivocally
and the fact that he didn't put this
officer in the hospital for a
significant amount of time so there's no
moral good in in letting this guy go
with anything he wants to have here
because it costs the officer dearly now
that said I applaud him for staying in
the fight as much as he did very
difficult after taking those hits with
the baton to stay in it he did at this
point I would have been completely ok if
the officer drew his handgun right here
and shot that guy as many times as it
took for that guy to go to the ground
but at least he was able to call for
help and maintain his dist
at that point boy this one was hard to
watch everybody let's make sure that we
get the lessons that we need to out of
this one though because we want to
really understand the use of force
appropriately as we seek to cover our
ass