in police involved gun fights especially
the shooting can be
much farther than that three to seven
yard range we typically talk about
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hi everybody welcome to today's bonus
badge cam
and surveillance cam lesson here at
active self protection
i'm your host john korea today's video
comes to us from marana
arizona palm pepper spray has recently
reformulated for even more
effect when you bless the deserving with
the hot sauce palm is what i use between
a harsh word and a gun
and encourage everyone to do likewise
police have gotten a call about this guy
who is asleep in his car cars running
and so they go to check him out
it's what they call being in actual
physical control of the vehicle so they
knock on the windows hey man close the
doors
you know turn the car off whatever open
your doors so they finally are going to
get this guy out of the car do a field
side sobriety test on him he's going to
fail it
miserably and the officers are then
going to do a search of the vehicle and
find a whole bunch of drugs
inside the vehicle now this guy they
don't quite know yet has had a bunch of
run-ins with the law
including just getting out for already
having an officer-involved incident with
a gun
so they're going to say all right man
you are under arrest let's listen in
what i want you to do is go ahead and
put your hands behind your back
he's gotta drop it drop it he has a gun
gun
good here you can see it on the uh
surveillance footage from the nearby
restaurant dude's gonna run
off and pull a gun that he had in his
waistband the officer did not catch it
on his pat down
and uh pull the holster off of it now
you can see him pulling it right there
now the officer is going to start
yelling at him dude shoots at him
multiple times
they finally did hit him a couple of
times and knock him over he dropped the
gun
they got him in custody obviously this
guy is no boy scout he
was able to be rendered aid to
did make it through that he is facing a
bunch a litany of new charges in this
particular one
and no officers or anyone else was
harmed and we get some lessons
this one's kind of close to home
actually one of my very best friends in
the world lives there and i've flown
into murano regional airport a bunch of
times as a student pilot
so we got a lot of lessons to think
about out of this one let's get to them
so first things first i know some people
are gonna say hey this whole thing was
avoidable they never should have
contacted him or whatever but in arizona
we have what we call a law about being
in
actual physical control of the vehicle
the car was running he had a seat belt
on and so he's
in actual physical control of the
vehicle and so that by arizona law
is driving under the influence now you
can argue about that all you want i
think the answer to that
for all of us is don't drive drunk i
mean driving under the influence
is a terrible thing for so for all of us
let's not do that right and
and recognize that at that point under
arizona law they have probable cause
that a crime is being committed so yes
they're gonna get him out of the car
they're gonna do a field side sobriety
test which again he failed so now
they're they're arresting him they came
and had a drug dog sniff as well while
they were doing his field site sobriety
test
of course the dog alerted and so now
you've got a bunch of drugs as well so
this dude is no boy scout okay he has
had multiple run-ins with the law has
has multiple convictions including
violent convictions
uh in the state of arizona now a couple
things here i want you to notice he's
not printing
at all but he has a gun in a really
crappy holster buried kind of deep
in his groin in the front so for all of
my officer viewers do not skimp on your
pat down right make sure that when
you're saying hey man we're conducting a
crime i'm going to search you
for my safety that you do a a an outward
search make sure you respect the fourth
amendment and all those things however
make sure that you're checking to make
sure that he's not hiding a gun and
pouching one
in front of his boys because that's
exactly what went down here
so he tells a guy hey man you know turn
around you're under arrest dude decides
to draw a gun on him so this is how
gunfights start with officers is that
it's not the officer who starts to fight
it's the fight starts when the dude
draws a weapon and decides he wants to
fight
now let's think about when the officer
made a change here of course at first
he's running after the guy but as soon
as he sees him go for his waste
he decides nope i'm not going to try to
keep coming into him and give him
proximity remember proximity negates
skill
and there are some crooks who are good
with guns and some perps who are good
with their firearms but they're pretty
rare
and so as an officer as well as as a
private citizen you got to have a very
high skill level to say nope
at some point i got to go no i got to go
to my gun and get the distance because i
can get to him
and he probably can't get to me and so
this is why we say
having a skill discrepancy is so
important so for all my officer viewers
you need to be much better
than what your department training
requires of you much better than what
your qualification requires of you
because on that day you're going to need
it to end the threat to you to your
partners to the public as quickly as you
can
now also note that our dude has a crappy
holster so his holster has come out with
his gun i'm grateful for that in this
instance
but for my private citizen folks when
you're carrying concealed do better than
this
now also note we could say oh the guy's
just trying to run away but he's not
just trying to run away he actually
actively shot at officers here
and and again this is at the very least
aggravated assault on a police officer
so this guy has to get stopped
right now and yes he's trying to get
away but that's irrelevant the officer
has to stop this threat immediately now
for the officers you got to recognize
you want to put your hits on target
because look at your backstop your
backstop is other parked cars that might
have people in them
so you want to get hits not just shots
so the guy's gonna gonna keep
bringing and get farther and farther
away i measured the distance right here
from where the officer
is to where he is and that's about a a
12 to 14 yard shot is what that is
and not only that it is a 12 to 14 yard
shot on a non-standard presentation of a
target
so a much thinner target than what
you're used to and you're very likely to
hit him in the side to the back when you
shoot him here
so again for all of my viewers recognize
that you are not talking about
where you shoot someone you're talking
about why something can get shot in the
back just like this
and still have absolute justification
for what they did
now then when he goes down as the
officers are looking here
he's actually quite a ways farther away
so he kept running off after he was shot
he was injured he survived those
injuries one thing i will note here is
you know officers right up on the car
and this is a very common thing people
love to hug cover and my big suggestion
is
really train your brain to go no take a
big step off the cover which allows you
more maneuverability
gives you more options and actually
makes the cover more effective for you
as well so don't get sucked into your
cover because it can really limit your
options now these guys did a fine job
they got the shots on that guy that they
needed to to make him stop
and when he stopped they stopped and
then covered him well worked together as
partners you can see that right here
to get him into custody get him some
emergency medical care
and then he will face the next 10 20
years behind bars or whatever so
for my officer viewers make sure that
your pat down includes that front region
of course you gotta watch out for your
policies and procedures and all that
stuff
but don't let a guy have a gun on him
when you are worried about having to
arrest him
number two i think he did a great job
here of knowing when it was time to go
to his gun and use it effectively number
three
on that day your marksmanship skills are
going to be tested so they need to be
very high if you hope to cover your asp