I got to admit I'm not a huge fan of the
Taser but when it works it works right
now welcome to today's bonus active
self-protection badge cam lesson I'm
your host John Correa
today's officer-involved incident comes
to us from Miami Florida in the United
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do police are responding to this
neighborhood because a man has called
911 to kill cops and if you go watch the
extended version as they drive up
they're really thinking he might be
wanting to commit suicide by cop and so
that's what their response is going to
be we have audio let's listen in and
hear what happened put it down put it
down put it down put it down put it down
put it down
drop the knife look at me look at me put
it down bro put it down
don't do it don't do it don't do that
don't do that don't do it don't do this
come on
sir listen to me put the knife down we
don't want to hurt you come on buddy
look at me look at me brother come on
don't do this I don't want to hurt you I
don't want to hurt you put it down
drop the knife sir come on now
hey brother come on listen to me come on
we don't want to hurt you
come on come on man put it down put it
okay look at me
listen to me listen to me listen dude
relax relax just come on
drop it listen to me okay hey talk to me
brother look look at me hey listen look
at me hey nobody wants to hurt you put
the knife down put it down okay okay
okay okay
once they got him into custody police
took this man for a mental health
evaluation he is not facing any charges
and that's where this one ends boy I
really think there's a lot for us to
think about and talk about here but I
also think those officers did a pretty
good job of talking that guy down now my
question for you out of this one is
after watching the channel for quite
some time did it change your
understanding of the Taser I gotta tell
you I really thought a Taser was a
fantastic tool but the more I see it on
badge cam the leery or I am what are
your thoughts on the use of the Taser
let's talk about it in the description
and get to the lessons first off when
you're heading to one of these kinds of
calls make sure that you're practicing
your combat breathing manual yeah and
and this is unique to police work
because you're actually going and you
know bad stuff is coming in a lot of
instances you got to work very hard to
try to calm your breathing keep your
heart rate down so that you can make
good decisions and you don't get into an
adrenalin spike I think these officers
did a darn good job of that here of
recognizing hey I got problems but I got
to keep my head about me and notice this
officer is communicating well waving
people off and able to maintain his
presence now they're gonna start talking
to him here and I think that the Taser
is actually a good decision in this
particular instance the reason for that
is you see that he has an officer who
has lethal cover now I will say this
what I really would like here is you
notice that we have the officer whose
badge cam we're looking at has his taser
out the other officer has a Taser out in
his left hand and he has a firearm in
his right hand
I don't know any department that allows
both a Taser and a firearm to be held at
the same time it is my opinion that you
should either have one or the other in
your hand because of the problem with
sympathetic motor response and shooting
when you intend to taste so if you have
lethal cover have lethal cover if you
have the Taser have the Taser and and
what I really recommend is the Taser can
be a great tool against the
knife-wielding attacker if you have
lethal cover around and they did in this
instance but I tell an officer with the
firearm out put it away and instead put
the Taser away and keep the firearm out
or put the firearm away and keep the
Taser out now I do notice and I love
that they're talking with him here but
do you do did notice probably when they
were back and forth that they had a hard
time closing in on one person
communicating and when you have those
people communicating multiple people
saying multiple things that can be very
difficult to get through too
somebody that you're trying to influence
so do a good job of listening to each
other if somebody says I've got it let
me talk let them talk even if you feel
like they're not doing as good a job as
you could if that's the case you you can
then communicate with them hey I got it
tag me in and then let them communicate
you know then you communicate when it's
your turn to communicate but what we
really should do is think about again
I'm going to tell this person you know
let them communicate on that next you
notice that this guy again he's making
threats whatever he's telling them hey
this is there I'll get you if you come
after me whatever but because he's not
overtly coming at him with the knife
they are not going to tase him in that
moment they're not gonna shoot him in
those things they're trying to
de-escalate and and keep this situation
from going further and I think that's
admirable please hear me I think cops do
this every day and I think that's great
and for my police officer Watchers guys
really work hard to make sure that
you're able to communicate well with
people because of course you don't want
to have the officer-involved shooting
you don't want to go through all that
stuff instead what happened here getting
a tase on this guy getting him to help
without any you know any shooting
protocols or any of that the internal
affairs investigation the public outcry
and all that stuff is clearly a much
much better outcome now notice here as
well then we have a cop who's creeping
in from the back and they did watch out
for their crossfire when you've got
lethal cover out you got to watch out
for crossfire and I think that's very
very wise but particularly the officer
that's in the background I don't know if
he's got his taser out or if he has a
firearm out at this point but if he has
a firearm out boy you better watch out
for that lethal cover problem of the
back stop because now the other officer
is your back stop and go from there now
notice officer just finally decides he
gets after it and pops the guy I think
this was a very good decision he didn't
talk about it a bunch hey if you do this
I'm gonna tase you whatever he just
decided one it was his opportunity felt
like he could get a good prong spread he
went for it and got after it on the guy
and when you get good prongs spread the
Taser is a hundred percent effective but
it's an all-or-nothing thing so this is
why we say lethal cover is important
because if it hadn't have worked then
they would have had to have perhaps have
been ready to go on but took the
opportunity without a bunch of talking
and then notice that the knife goes down
here one of their first priorities then
is to secure that knife once the knife
is out of the guy's hand we could have a
polyester pile up we can have you know
hands-on user
DT if we have to to take the guy into
custody or whatever but getting him
disarmed incredibly important he dropped
that knife the second you popped him
with the Taser so securing that even if
that's just kicking it away with your
foot so that it's out of the scene and
out of the problem so that you can deal
with the person is the way to go and he
does a pretty good job of that here
getting over there getting that knife
out of the way and then getting in some
custody with this guy one challenge that
I see here from this officer as he is
coming his lethal cover he just puts
this taser down on the floor to go pick
something else up that's put it back in
the holster you have a holster for a
reason never lay a gun on the ground
never lay a Taser on the ground would be
my recommendation if at all you can help
it now if you have to drop it because
you're in the middle of a fight a Taser
in particular I'm okay with that
your SOPs will tell you what you can and
can't do but just putting it down to
administrative Lee cause you want to go
hands-on with the guy know you have a
holster for a reason use that holster
then they're gonna finally get this guy
into custody getting rolled over and
treat him humanely and with respect and
I just want to say how much I appreciate
how many times that this happens in
officers lives and how frequently we see
this and and we don't see this make a
whole lot of waves on media because
there was no shooting here there was no
you know incredible anger here because
things were handled appropriately and
this is the kind of policing that I
think we want to see more of in the u.s.
good verbal skills de-escalation as much
as we can non-lethal response because he
wasn't charging Adam and those things so
hats off to these officers for doing a
pretty fantastic job let's work on the
communication piece work on making sure
that we watch our crossfire and and make
sure that when we get you know the Taser
activated that we get that weapon out of
his hand get him secured get him to help
these officers did a really good job of
not having to shoot this guy of getting
him talked down getting him to the help
he needs Congrats guys for covering
everyone's ass