it's not very often that we get to see a
real life fight between a machete and a
baton but today is the day
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dude who apparently has just robbed a
gas station or something I've put the
new story in the description with a
machete and a couple of cops have chased
him down now these cops apparently do
have firearms on them but they're
instead going to come after this guy
with their night sticks so you see the
both of them kind of creeping in on the
guy and now they are they're both of
them telling the guy to put his machete
down but our dudes decided not I'd
rather have a fight with you over it and
it's a very rare occurrence where we see
this kind of actual state stand up fight
with an intermediate range weapon like a
a machete and a night stick now of
course you watch these cops they do have
stab proof vests on so they do have
vests that are not just ballistic they
are stab rated don't know if they are
slash rated for this kind of Machete
watch the cop that is on the left of the
perp he's gonna close the distance and
that was the difference indeed right
there the other cop kept him preoccupied
where the second cop closed the distance
now they're going to get this guy down
watch everybody kind of look around and
go hey I'm gonna do anything now I'm
gonna step out of the way and not get
involved third cop's gonna get in and
it's a polyester pile up on this guy
where apparently none of the officers
were injured they did get this guy into
custody without having to shoot him or
doing anything very significant they did
take quite a bit of risks here and we're
going to think about lessons a big
question for you out of today's video
that I really do want to talk about I
think it was incredibly Brave of them
but was it smart they had firearms on
them was this the right choice what are
your thoughts first thing of these
bystanders hey man they're gonna grab
their seats oh man this guy's messing
with our little pow-wow here nah man get
the heck out of the danger zone for
those bystanders don't stand there and
watch because that can deteriorate in a
hurry turned into a shooting put you at
risk get out of the way next thing here
notice that again it's very rare to see
this kind of mutual combat but this guy
has a machete which is an intermediate
range object an intermediate range Force
multiplier that has to be swung so it
needs a significant amount of distance
and it needs an arc in order to be
delivered their sticks are similar but
they can also be used in a jabbing
motion so they don't need the arc but
the arc helps them to have impact so if
an impact weapon versus an edged weapon
here and of course you want to stay out
of range of this if you can and if you
can't stay out of range you've got to
get into range and that's exactly what
the second cop does here so you notice
the big thing that he does is he stays
out of range until he feels like he has
the moment and the guy can't back up any
further and then closes the distance
because if you close the distance on an
intermediate tool whether that's a bat a
machete or whatever that needs to swing
in an arc if you can keep that Arc space
from being available you can stop that
threat that's exactly what he did here
of course if it's a machete it might
have a sharpened Edge I see a lot of
machetes that have kind of a medium
sharpened Edge it's not really dangerous
as a knife necessarily but some are so
you got to recognize you still didn't
want to treat that thing like a like
it's dangerous and not let it scrape all
over you because whatever it touches it
can cut
now then next part here communicate well
they got this guy on the ground
certainly for law enforcement officers
you've got to have in your defensive
tactics some control principles here but
even as non-law Enforcement Officers if
you got to take somebody down like this
you've got to have some grappling skills
you got to know how to control somebody
and that is very difficult it is way
harder to hold somebody down who does
not want to be held down than most
people think it is specifically watching
videos get on the mats and practice it
and you'll see that for sure and that's
where that matte training comes in next
as the bystanders look around here you
might want to go and help you see the
one guy said no no don't go help
whatever it's okay if you do just make
sure you go and ask the officers
officers do you need some help can I
help you and then that's safer for the
officers that's safer for the perk
because the faster they get him into
custody the less chance that something
really bad happens and somebody gets
killed and it's probably safer for the
community as well so if you want to help
great you can actually do so but if you
don't want to I would recommend getting
the heck out of the area instead of
standing around and watching these cops
did a pretty incredible job why did they
not use their firearms as the last
question that we're going to ask there I
don't know I honestly think that with
two of them there I would have rather
had one of them with lethal cover in
case that guy ended up get the advantage
but it worked out in this case so kudos
to them for covering their asp