once again today we get to see the sex
panther of defensive tools
fail in its mission
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the back story here is kind of
convoluted
officers have been looking for this guy
for some time first 911 call came in
from a tennis court
of a guy who called them because
the perp here in our video was chasing
his daughter around the tennis court
with a knife and then they didn't find
him there then they started getting
other phone calls about a guy chasing
people in the neighborhood
with a knife and so they're going to
actually catch up with this guy
chasing some more people into a drug
store and that's where we begin to
listen to the badge camps
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hey back up guys back up get out of
there
drop the knife now sorry he's got the
knife in his hand
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he's going in the knife
what do you got i got taser
let's
get on the go he's around the corner
he's running that way go go go
we need to get everybody out
hey come on watch that door
81 shots fired shots fired code three
cover here
i got him
drop the knife
roll them over
hey back up guys back up get out of
there
drop the knife now sorry he's got the
knife in his hand
he's around the corner he's running that
way
get out get out get out get out drop it
now
drop the knife
81 shots fired shots fired go three
cover here
i got him
81 shots fired shots fired code 3 cover
here
i got him
officers fired a total of 11 rounds at
this guy eight of them hit him they did
do their best to try to provide first
aid for him but
uh he did not make it we don't know why
he did this we'll never know
uh no officers or other bystanders ended
up injured in this one and we have a lot
of lessons to learn today
man at some point you just got to be
able to defend yourself
if you want to talk about the legal and
moral aspects of self-defense law
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ethical aspects
every single friday of self-defense so
hit the link in the description and find
us there so i do see as the first
officer comes on scene make it a little
bigger so we can see it a little bit
better obviously
a good use of a pistol mounted light
here and this is why i recommend a
pistol mounted light for police officers
a couple of things out of this one again
a private citizen generally is not going
to stalk a guy down like this
but police officers do they chase
goblins down holes and so a pistol
mounted light makes a lot of sense in
that
duty context number two if you notice
he's actually not pointing a gun at
anybody here uh he is actually pointing
it at the tree
and that splash is giving him kind of a
lot of problems so maybe a low ready
would be a better choice here but i
think a high power high candela light is
really
important and gives you more information
and knowing how to use that and use the
spill and and not point a gun at what
you don't want to
point a gun at is important if you're
going to carry a pistol mounted light
again i think that's good and important
for all police officers
don't know so much on ccw carriers i
don't carry one but i totally get it
now then i do note here that our officer
as well is going to make a change and
goes to the taser
okay fine my big strong recommendation
here put the gun away before you get the
taser out if you think that a less
lethal and you have lethal cover
and you go hey i want to try less lethal
here because i think that's the best
choice great
put the gun all the way in the holster
because of the problem of sympathetic
squeeze
you do not want to have a firearm in
your hand when you're deploying the
taser i've seen too many
times that we have a sympathetic squeeze
and a negligent discharge
and people get shot when they're when
the officer wanted to tase them so
before you
draw the taser put the gun back in the
holster and so then they're using it
correctly and that's exactly what the
officer does here he puts the taser back
away and the holster goes to the gun
puts the gun back away and goes to the
taser okay fine knowing when to go to
which one very important
think about this transitional lighting
as well i mean again these are you know
this is later at night and
officers are going to be operating in
these kinds of situations far more than
private citizens
so knowing when to use your pistol
mounted light very important so you see
how he could see him here
and once again tries for the taser here
but once again
i i just want to remind everybody that
taser is the sex panther of defensive
tools 50
of the time it works every time you've
got to recognize that unless you get
proper prong spread
and prong adhesion into the person in
two spots you are not going to get
neuromuscular incapacitation you are not
going to get lock up
and it is zero percent effective if you
don't it's a good tool because when you
do get a lock up it's 100 effective but
recognize it may not and you better be
ready to change in that moment exactly
what the officer did
nope i got to get the gun out instead
put the taser down he drops the taser
and goes to the gun now the other
officer fired i think nine shots he
fired two
here and fired him one-handed and let's
see from the other officer's perspective
what he sees now i want to note here
that this officer does not activate his
pistol mounted light right now and and
think about this for a moment totally
okay
as long as he can see that threat
threat's already been identified for him
again his eyeball probably sees a little
bit differently than the camera as well
but recognize this is the kind of
interaction that a private citizen might
have
in this kind of transitional lighting
and there's enough lighting here for him
to see enough of his sights to get the
hits that he need
and understand that this guy has a knife
and is advancing towards him
so i don't know that it's necessary in
the shooting phase per se
especially for private citizens so right
here is where he is going to go
and get after this guy with his firearm
and it's only about 12 or 13 feet
but recognize that that's why he decides
to fire as he goes man this guy turned
towards me
he's advancing on me has you know
ignored multiple commands to put it down
has attacked several people with a knife
is this guy a deadly threat to the
officer and to the private citizens who
are behind the officer
who they just evacuated there the answer
to that is 100 yes
and these are the kinds of
moment-by-moment second by second split
second decisions that a defender will
have to make it a police officer will
have to make
and you got to make the right one now i
do want to stop here for just a second
and notice
that you can see the knife in the right
hand of the perp here because the
officer who
was the second to shoot who had the
taser in his hand when he pulled his
firearm
he activated his pistol mounted light so
you can see that there
again i do want to recognize there's a
difference between what the
mark is one mod zero eyeball can see and
what the camera can see especially in
low-light conditions so they could
probably see that a whole lot better
than we can see it on the camera just
because the limitations of video
so make sure that you recognize that but
he did still have the knife in his hands
guys absolutely a deadly threat
and when he goes down the officer stops
shooting takes him just a little bit to
deprogram the trigger finger that's
that's very common and i want you to
note here
that now the officer actually actuates
his pistol mounted light
which is actually a good reminder the
biggest use of the pistol mounted light
in these kinds of transitional
environments is for more
lighting for identification it's more in
the search and assess phase than it is
in the shooting phase
yes officers do get in in uh shootings
that involve
very low light conditions so you might
need it on for the actual shooting as
well
but probably more useful when you want
two hands on the gun and you're in the
search and assess phase
and that's exactly where this officer is
here so it's a good use of his pistol
amount of light to make sure that the
guy's okay
once i get the knife out of his hand i
applaud them for getting him into
custody very quickly
you know getting him in cups and then
starting first aid on this guy and yes
he didn't make it
but clearly he was a deadly threat to
everyone around him don't know why he
decided to be this way
but the officers had to do what they do
so let's learn the lessons here about
the proper use of a pistol mounted light
i think these guys did a really good job
of that
about that deadly threat and when you
just gotta take action i think these
officers
did a good job and covered their asp