having strong emotional Fitness is an
incredibly important part of surviving a
fight for your life welcome to today's
active self-protection badge cam bonus
lesson I am your host John Korea I heard
from the fans on the channel loud and
clear that you wanted the badge cams to
stay here on the main active
self-protection Channel however I also
want you to get a daily narrated lesson
from a more citizen oriented encounter
so this is what we're gonna do give you
a bonus active self-protection lesson
when we have badge cam or dash cam of
officer-involved incidents this
particular one literally just happened
the day before yesterday in Tempe
Arizona which is about 15 miles from my
house it's pretty harrowing so this
one's not for the squeamish
thanks to wilderness tactical products
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wear every day I've linked several news
stories and the AZ DPS press release in
the description make sure to go read it
the trooper has a ride-along from
Mothers Against Drunk Driving with him
when this is what he comes across the
audio here is important so let's listen
in the action comes from the right
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diantha for help
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you need to roll ambulance please
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the perp here did not make it he took
the asphalt temperature challenged the
trooper ended up going to the hospital
was treated and released looks like he
will be okay and you go read the news
stories what you'll find is that this
perp actually was arrested earlier the
day before for trespassing at an Islamic
Center clearly already had a beef was
upset with police officers was here as a
Qatari student on a student visa and
that's where this one ends holy cow that
was difficult stuff indeed for us to
watch but I think there are some
incredible lessons here that we're gonna
have to pay attention to if you want to
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some lessons here not just for law
enforcement but for private citizens as
well so let's get to them
there really are a ton of lessons to
learn out of this one for all of us but
I do want to talk about the
contextualization differences between
law enforcement encounters and private
citizen encounters this officer is out
enforcing the law and keeping his
community safe at almost midnight where
that's kind of a stupid time and private
citizens should be home so you got to
understand these lessons come from this
place of this guy wanting an interaction
with the cops because he's probably
frustrated about being arrested for
trespassing and an Islamic Center
earlier in the day and and so you know
the officer can't just ignore this where
you or I would you know a private
citizen we just saw whatever dude dudes
being weird and I'm out of here the
officer has to go now man you gotta have
to fix that pick that up that's stupid
whatever and he tried to give him an out
but the guy wanted to have a conflict so
the officer has to pursue that that's a
difference in the start and end of law
enforcement gunfights versus private
citizen gunfights but obviously for my
law enforcement friends you got to
recognize this guy is gonna be problems
and you deal with this stuff every day
and I respect you highly for it so he's
gonna get a little physical here and
this is the start right here of us
knowing that bad things are happening
you got to recognize especially with the
you know that the lights are on this cop
is is giving him commands so the guy
coming and kicking his patrol car
escalates this from merely verbal to
physical this guy wants to have a fight
and the officer knows that he should be
gearing himself up emotionally for that
fight for my officer friends man
recognize when you got these kind of
cues you gotta recognize the chances of
you having to go hands-on with this guy
or high and getting yourself mentally
prepared for that as soon as possible is
incredibly wise is a private citizen
same thing you get these kind of cues if
they're verbal and physical with one
thing that could be with you now is it
reasonable for the officer to have his
Taser out here absolutely it's
reasonable for him to have his Taser out
here in fact it's a very good thing the
guy has his hands out so you can see
that he doesn't have any weapons in his
hands you're always looking at eyes
hands and waist right problems are
always coming from the hands the stuff
that'll kill you it comes from the hands
and a lot of times comes from the waist
so this guy has his hands out doesn't
have any weapons but he is physically
aggressive and you don't want to get in
a physical conflict with somebody so the
Taser is a good option and and so the
fact that he's got it out here
absolutely gunman the totality of the
circumstances now he's not gonna mess
around with the guy and he hits him with
the Taser but you have to recognize
studies have shown the Taser is only
around 50% effective if you get both
prongs in the guy you get at least a
foot of prong spread they are absolutely
effective I have taken a ride on the
Taser and it is miserable and every
officer I know they almost always in
their qualifications have to take a ride
and so guess what when that gets you in
they get the right Prag spread hundred
percent effective but if you don't get
both prongs in it is an all-or-nothing
affair and so you better be ready for it
to fail if you get you don't have to use
it and in that moment the guy comes in
and decides he wants to fight so
sometimes we'll see him run off when
they don't that taser doesn't have
effect this guy instead because we knew
he was physically aggressive earlier he
decides to continue to be physically
aggressive and come in this is why
empty-handed skills are so critically
important and particularly here for
officers again a private citizen may not
get in this kind of fight but you know
when you get a bad guy that's like no I
want to have a fight you're gonna have a
fight and you better have the
empty-handed skills to get in that fight
and to survive it and that takes a high
level of training and you're not going
to get that training in the department
you're gonna have to spend your own time
and money to get it you look at what
this fight is you're gonna have to spend
time and money to get in this fight now
let's think about what's going on right
here
kicking the officer and the officer here
is trying to detain him so he's trying
to control this guy entertain him again
whereas private citizen fights you're
probably trying to break contact and get
a guy away from you the officer is not
able to do that so because his fights
have to end differently than yours do as
a private citizen he has different
tactics different techniques different
procedure and different gear on him as
well so as an officer of course
understanding those control tactics both
from standing and from the ground
position incredibly important now you're
looking here and let's look and see this
guy's got an arm around the officers
head he's got one arm that is a you know
isolated on the officer and now the
officer needs some standing grappling
skills for sure now I also know a bunch
of people that are gonna say well you
know I would have just drawn my gun and
shot him I want you to pay attention at
the fact that the officer here has
absolutely no ability to do that he is
in a dogfight here with this guy needs
both hands in it and he tried to get to
his radio there and look at what that
caused and caused him to be thrown to
the ground cause him to get punched in
the face several times and so what you
see here is is again I know plenty of
people said well at that point my life's
at risk and I'm just gonna draw my gun
but the reality is not that maybe you
couldn't have drawn a firearm and used
it here but but it in a legal sense but
from a physical sense having some
positional dominance before you get that
gun out and in the fight is absolutely a
requirement if you try to draw a gun
here when the guy's wailing a tune on
you like that
and likely he will take that gun away
from you and use it on you so the
officer did a good job here of
continuing the physical fight because he
didn't have the ability to get a hand
out of the fight now of course he also
has to worry about his right along he
also has to worry about the woman in the
car who is watching all this as well and
you noticed he said get on the you know
the horn get on my radio call in for
some help so we're gonna talk about the
help issue here in a little bit but
recognize that when you're in a fight
for your life you better have skills and
you better have a significant empty
handed skillset and some cardio to go
with it and this officer has just been
in now a significant in several fight
now it gets really serious right here
because the guy headbutts him you see
him grab a hole with both hands and come
in with that head but I see that not
irregularly in these kinds of fights
when they tie up like this people will
use their head
that right there could easily have
knocked the trooper out completely he
said when you go to the links in the
description
specifically the DPS release that he
after this went down after the guy beats
him over the head with his taser that he
was losing consciousness and then feared
for his life and the life of the right
along that he had with him but right
here that could have taken a crazy
change so that's why when you are
controlling somebody just controlling
their hands here controlling their
elbows out you've got to watch that head
in real environments because he will
definitely let you have it him because
he hit him in the jaw boy that one
knocked him over and almost knocked him
out so what we're gonna see here now is
you're gonna see our bad guy after a few
seconds is gonna come back on the right
side of the camera and actually grab the
officers taser and is gonna beat him
over the head with it a couple of times
and it's at that point that the officer
says man I feared for my life
because I was losing consciousness drew
my gun and fired twice and ended him so
you could see him beat him over the head
right there and that's 100% justified in
my opinion now I want to talk about all
these people that are driving by because
personally I think it is a moral
imperative if you have attitude skills
and plan to step in on these kinds of
situations I would personally I think
you need to set that for you but I'm
kind of appalled that everybody just
drives by I have a good friend Thomas
Knoxville and if you remember a couple
of years ago when trooper ed Anderson
here in Arizona was on the side of the
road in a not dissimilar situation then
my friend Thomas pulled over and saved
trooper Anderson's life from a crazy
person who was attacking him and trying
to kill him in much the same way that we
saw here and so I really would encourage
you don't just drive by stop and see if
the officer needs aid even if you're not
a fan of police officers stopping and
saying hey officer do you need help you
might have been able to help him get
this guy into custody and then that guy
would not have needed to be shot and
that would have been a better outcome
not blaming the officer one bit he did
exactly the right thing in that
circumstance so let's think as private
citizens about would we step in again
make sure if you do step in that you
tell the officer officer you know do you
need help do you require assistance I'm
here to help you I have a gun can I help
you officer and see what he needs if he
says no stay away listen to him call it
in to 911 if he says yes then go finally
here you saw it took those officers
those responding officers several
minutes he had to fight that fight alone
and I get it you got back
up on the way if you're a cop if you're
a private citizen that backup ain't
coming for a long time but even as a cop
even on the Motorola the backups going
to take too long to get there so you are
responsible the primary agent in your
own rescue and you better have the
emotional fitness the skills the
attitude the plan to protect yourself I
think this trooper is again he's gonna
make it he's gonna be ok and I'm
grateful for that I hope that you take
the lessons to heart let's make sure
that we all cover our ass