while controversial officer-involved
shootings get a lot of press
in reality most of them are much more
cut and dried
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i'm your host john korea today's video
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sponsoring today's video 911 has been
called by the guy who's walking across
the street right now because
his brother has hit him in the head with
a 26
inch gas station katana is what the news
story said you can
read it in the description so the
officer is going to see him i don't
think he told the officer that it was
his brother he just said some guy hit me
with it
so the officer now has a good
description of the suspect knows who
he's looking for knows where he is
because the guy said that that's where
he was
so he's going to pull in here we see the
dash cam and then we've got badge cam
here as well
as this guy's going to go try to hide in
the bushes from the cop even though we
just saw him
let's listen into the badge cam stop
stop now stop now let me see your
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stop
998 pomona 998 second in reservoir 998
give me medical aid over here now
officers took him into custody tried to
give life-saving aid but unfortunately
the guy
perished at the scene and that is where
this one ends
tough situation for him to be in
thankfully he had the skills to pay the
bills
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join the program would you so when we
start talking about this one at first
again the officer has heard from
dispatch there's a man
you know loose hit somebody in the head
with a sword uh so we've got an
aggravated assault going here and again
the cop is going to sit and talk to this
guy
and go okay what's going on here now
what i really want to say to all my law
enforcement viewers
is man when he's going to get in the car
here you've got a moment to start to
organize your thoughts and to set your
boundaries right so obviously
thinking through keeping your arousal
level at a manageable pace because you
know this guy is violent already he's
highly likely to be violent towards you
so then think through in these instances
okay so if
he then i right so there's this idea
that says okay if the guy dances on me
with a sword like he's gonna hit me with
it i'm going to go ahead and shoot him
i'm going to give ground as much as i
can
i'm going to try to de-escalate if
possible let's see if i can make contact
with him
but here are my go signals and here's
the time where i'm going to make things
happen
and thinking through those things when
you've got a few seconds like this can
really help you when times get crazy so
that you're ready to go
now dude obviously goes in there and
hides
in the bushes and obviously he's not
playing hide and seek right now where
he's you know doing good things nothing
good is going to come out of this so
this is clearly an
escalating moment where he this
indicates to me that this guy
is not thinking clearly because he
thinks he can hide in a bush from the
cop who just pulled up who saw him hide
in the bush
so we have some kind of contaminated
thinking here you know automatically we
can know that so now let's think through
the officer's actions here
i think he did a really good job let's
think through a couple things number one
as the officer jumps out he you know
he he mf's the guy right he mother f's
him and i don't recommend that
and the reason that i don't recommend
that is there's a difference
between using foul language at you know
at somebody and using the foul language
in their vicinity so the the mf'ing
somebody can actually escalate conflicts
it
certainly doesn't de-escalate so when
you say
show me your hands mother effer what you
say there is i disrespect you
and that's very different even than
saying show me your f in hands so
watch that language because it might be
an escalating factor i don't think
anything would have changed to hear
now notice officer comes out gun up and
i think that that is
absolutely reasonable in this case that
we have a known suspect who's hit
somebody in the head
with a sword and done great bodily harm
to him dude needed
several staples in his head to fix that
stuff and
is has been hiding himself and just
jumped out of the bushes at you 100
reasonable to have your firearm up ready
and out
and certainly the officer needed it in
this particular case so
make make sure you recognize that then
officer can draw a gun when he thinks
it's reasonable that he might need to
use it and that's what happened here
so i will say here is that if we look at
the officer's grip
that is not what i would really want to
train somebody to do in terms of
gripping the firearm now he was able to
do his business here
but i think the grip that he had made
that significantly more difficult for
him
in the moment so really work on those
fundamentals guys until they are so good
that you don't have to think about them
and you get a really good thumbs forward
two-handed grip on the gun
and that just takes a little bit of work
and even just a little bit of dry fire
so make sure that you're really good at
that now dude's gonna pull this big old
sword let's think about this
is that you can see right here on the
camera he pulls this big old 26 inch
gas station katana out so what are you
going to do i think oscar does a really
good job here is that you see him give
ground
so he instantly backs up starts issuing
commands drop it drop it
now then i think backing up is a great
thing here gives him a little bit more
time we've all heard about the tuller
principle
that you know the idea that a guy can
cover 21 feet
in a second and a half and so you want
to get some space
if you possibly can now that said he's
going to be able to run forward
faster and better than you're going to
be able to back pedal so you're going to
run out of space eventually
and the officer's patrol car sitting
there open i don't blame him for that he
had to jump out and
immediately the guy jumps out at him so
that's a pretty big deal now then
when he takes this first shot is that a
justifiable shot absolutely
reasonably you know again having given
multiple commands he shows up in his car
guys knows he's a cop he's wearing his
full police uniform he tells him to stop
tells him to drop it tells him to drop
it guy doesn't drop it and advances on
him
when he's holding a gun on him is this
guy mean the officer
an imminent deadly harm the answer to
that clearly is yes given the totality
of the circumstances
so i think that this shooting is 100
justified and i don't have any problems
with that whatsoever now thinking about
his splits
he's gonna get a second shot here about
.3 seconds afterwards
and he's about seven yards away here and
we have here a seven yard full frontal
presentation
so this is kind of the time where we
want to be able to say okay wait a
minute can i see my front
sight fast enough to get those quarter
second splits or so if you're really
good with a handgun you can probably get
even faster than that
but the fact that the officer is around
point three splits here tells me that
he's actually seeing his sights
and responding to training and actually
seeing pretty well do wish the grip was
better but whatever
now then third shot comes in another
point three and you see here that he
makes that
call to make the shot about uh you know
a quarter of a second before this and so
yeah absolutely and when the fourth shot
comes in
the guy is going down when the gun goes
off on the fourth time but remember it
takes him a quarter of a second just to
make that decision
so so he made the decision to fire when
the guy was still
up and then this fourth one goes off
when the guy is down
but he made the decision earlier so i
know sometimes we watch these frame by
frame by frame when we ask these
questions
but i want everybody to recognize that
human performance dictates he can't stop
instantly it takes him about a quarter
second to three tenths of a second to
decide to stop firing the gun
when the stimulus changes and as soon as
the stimulus changes this officer
changes he
as soon as the guy goes down he stops
firing and that was an excellent choice
because of course once the threat is
over he stops firing he's
fired there to protect his own life
against death or great bodily harm so
excellent job there on his part now i
think it's great as well that these
officers have decided to try to give
this guy life-saving aid
and of course unfortunately it didn't
work so i do think that that was a good
thing as well so i think the officer did
everything he needed to do here he you
know found the suspect at the right spot
he gave verbal commands i wouldn't
recommend the mf-ing there
i i get it but i wouldn't recommend it
but when he needed to protect himself he
acted decisively and did so
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