A dog attack is no joke you have to be ready to protect yourself if one attacks you.
Hi, everyone. This is John with today's active self-Protection lesson out of Shelby, Ohio. I warn you in advance
This one is graphic so viewer discretion is advised
It shows us an officer-involved incident with a man who had his wife has called
911 to call Officers out because he's being attacked by the family dog and we're going to see here the officers response
They do a really fantastic job, and we learn some important lessons here about defending ourselves against an attack by an animal
But number two if we do have to shoot someone or something that we have to still practice firearm safety
And we can only shoot when it's safe to do so.
The news story on this one says that the couple was having an argument and because of that the dog that belonged to the lady
attacked this man. We're going to listen in on the officers body cam, and when it's over we'll come back and learn some lessons.
[Woman] I've never seen a dog act like that.
Where's the dog at? [Man] He's here [Woman] Hurry, go!
[Woman] Oh my God [Man] I need help!
Yeah, that's right. Hurry. How's he got your wife going here?
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Taser, Taser!
Get up! Get on the bed! Go, keep going! Get up, get up, get up, get up!
Get out of here, get out of here!
Door's broke we're going to shoot him. Tell me when.
Stay down!
Okay, obviously that one's an incredibly intense situation. Let's go back and learn some lessons here
There are eight lessons from this one that are curated on our website link in the description
But let's learn some of the most important ones here. First ones the officers are showing up to this and going to try to you
Know disentangle this guy from this dog
But when the officer gets anywhere near the dog the dogs going to come and turn on him and so the guys going to use that
Opportunity and I think that's wise to get behind this door
It's going to use that door to keep that dog away from him and if you can getting out of contact with the potential attacker
Whether it's two legged or four very wise solution so the officer is going to get his gun out here
He's got to put it down because the guys for some reason comes back out don't blame him for that
I mean obviously he's injured not thinking very clearly
But now this officer has this shot to take if he takes his shot with his gun this is how close that this
Innocent man is he's not going to be able to take that shot
Incredibly difficult to do under stress so his partner gets the taser out now taser is not a great tool against a deadly threat
But in this instance because he has the other officer with a gun
It does make sense now when the guy gets away
I do want to notice here that the officers as he comes off the target maintains his his trigger finger on the trigger
Now of course we don't want that
we want you to pull your finger off the trigger as fast as you possibly can but
Situations get chaotic in a hurry and I do notice that the officer here when the guy gets over the bed does have his trigger
finger
aligned along the slide
Just something for us all to remember all the way through life you got to get that finger off the trigger if you're not on
your sights
So they're able to get that guy out of the way does a good job getting the gun out of the way and now they
Got to decide what they're going to do with this dog. You heard in the audio that the door was broken
They couldn't just close the door and leave the dog in there until animal control showed up
They had to decide what to do in the moment. Couldn't keep tasing the dog forever and so they ended up having to shoot that
Dog well guess what folks sometimes you've got to do that in order to protect yourself and to protect people
Because people are worth more than dogs. It's just that simple. These officers did a really fantastic job of assessing the situation,
stepping into danger using the tools that they had available ending the threat and not only protecting themselves, but innocent bystanders as well