today's badge cam is very controversial
friends we're gonna take a careful look
at it so let's be respectful as we
analyze
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officers are here on site because of a
domestic violence call to 9-1-1
the upstairs neighbor of the person they
are going to contact has called in and
said there is a domestic violence
disturbance that they're yelling at each
other and then called back a second time
and said that it had escalated to a
physical conflict
now uh that's what the officers have
when they are
on their way in they are assuming here
and they have been told that this is a
domestic violence
incident that they have to go so you can
see the officers come up here
not going to announce themselves and
then i want you to watch what happens
we got a lot to talk about at the end of
this one so keep an open mind as you
watch
thanks please
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in the analysis afterwards the caller
actually was lying they were
being loud playing video games making
salsa but they weren't having any kind
of domestic
incident whatsoever they the caller was
just angry that they were being loud and
he wanted to sleep
he did not make it from this one
whitaker was shot three times
and died at the scene and that is where
this one ends
serious stuff on this one and i'm gonna
ask you a favor i know that the internet
like comments are like the bathroom wall
of the internet but i would like us to
be respectful in our discussion here
and see what went good and what went
poorly there's a lot of things here to
discuss
we're going to look through a little at
a time and be really careful to analyze
this one
so stay with me for the lessons and then
let's have a respectful discussion shall
we so much for us to think about out of
this one first and foremost i want to
talk about priming 9-1-1 you know
whatever the call came in that's what
dispatch is going to send it out
they're going to do their best to filter
things whatever but the officers walking
up here are going man this guy said it's
a domestic is it really a domestic
you know if that'll get you here quicker
or whatever if you go watch the
extendeds on this one
and so you know again priming says oh no
we're going to have a problem and so
what dispatch
filters through may not always be the
case so for my officer viewers make sure
that you're taking what dispatch said
and filtering it through that now our
officer here is going to knock on the
door real loud
and announce himself phoenix pd and then
step away from the door and i know my
non-law enforcement viewers are going to
ask why didn't they stand in front of
the door and identify themselves because
he's going to look through the people
and not see anybody well that's exactly
why they don't stand in the doorway
because when you stand in the doorway in
uniform that's a great way to get shot
through the door when you're
approaching a bad guy so you got a
domestic this case you know if this had
been a real domestic dude comes to the
door with a gun in his hand sees the
cops
shoots the officer through the door so
officers are 100 taught to vacate the
doorway knock an announce and then get
out of the doorway for when that guy
comes in and that's exactly what the
officer did here
now there's just bad things coming here
because whitaker may not have heard the
fact that they announced themselves as
pd they're playing loud video games and
all those things
so he comes to the door is it okay for
the officer to get a light on him it
absolutely is okay you've got to
identify who's coming to the door
and are they a threat so totally cool
for this officer to get a flashlight and
get a bright flashlight with all the
candela
all the lumens on this guy is it cool
for whitaker to come to the door with a
gun well i understand why he might have
done that because he's had other
disturbances in the in the neighborhood
and people knocking on his door and
those kinds of things
now that said where i really think this
one's going to go south is as we see
whitaker
come and open the door opens it a long
way and then takes a hard step
out of his door now once again
can i tell you if he heard the fact that
phoenix pd had announced themselves no
i can't again if he's playing video
games loud and those kinds of things
might have just heard the banging on the
door
and not been able to make out phoenix pd
and knowing as well that again other
people have banged on his door maybe
he's had some problems with this
neighbor who is frustrated about him
playing loud video games
all that stuff maybe just maybe and
quite possibly he thinks this is that
problem as well so he's got a gun in his
right hand
but his problem that i see here where i
think that whitaker could have done
something different
is the fact that he again comes out the
door with a gun in his hand
and takes two big hard steps towards the
officer and i think that was a mistake
i'm not saying it was a mistake that was
worthy of death and being shot
but again if you're going to come with a
gun in your hand my strong
recommendation is for you
to either look through the glass and
challenge through the door
who's there what are you doing and then
that way you can hear if it's pd or not
or at the very most cracking the door
open and not showing the fact that you
have a gun and not showing your right
hand so that that officer can say hey
let me see your hands and then you can
drop the gun and show him your hands
had that happen here i don't think he
would have been shot but is it okay for
him to have come to the door with a gun
on his person yes
even in his hand yes but it's kind of
one of those awful things that happens
now the other thing that you notice here
is that he hides that gun behind his
back and i get it that he doesn't want
to show the officer that he has a gun
because he doesn't want to get shot by
that officer
but he does not recognize that there is
another officer who is
behind him so again that is another
thing that there's nobody at fault here
this is not
again the fault of whitaker i would say
you know coming out the door like that
with a gun in his hand
rather than staying behind the door was
probably the biggest problem but of
course the officer is going to see that
there and say hey show me your hands and
he's telling his partner
hands hands hand so he gets his gun out
and his partner goes to work now we can
see on the badge cam here
that it looks to me like at this moment
when the first shot breaks
that whitaker is trying his best to put
the gun down it looks to me for all it's
worth
like he is crouching and trying to get
that gun out of his hand and has
raised his hands in surrender and i
think the officer who we are facing
right now
can see that and see it well and so he
doesn't shoot he gets a gun out because
he's seen a gun but he doesn't shoot and
i think that was a good answer
and the right call here but his partner
didn't see what he saw so let's go and
look
and think about the human performance
factors here so i'm talking to you now
as a certified force science analyst and
somebody who understands how human
performance works and how
the eye sees the brain processes and
decisions are made so guy comes out here
and again he is staying to the right his
off his
fellow officer is taking the lead seeing
what's going on but what his first
inclination here is
this guy isn't just saying hi he is
coming out and stepping out
pretty aggressively so what are you
going to see in that moment you've been
primed by dispatch that you have a
domestic violence call
and you see this guy stepping out
towards your fellow officer
aggressively that is going to prime you
then that you have to act
very very quickly now then your partner
says show me your hands and now when he
steps all the way out here you see him
have a gun behind his back do you
reasonably think in that moment what a
reasonable person with a reasonable
officer knowing all the things that he
knew
in the moment not what we know now but
what he knew in the moment
perceived this as a deadly threat to his
partner i think the answer here is
unfortunately yes
i'm not saying that it was that whitaker
was a deadly threat but that he would
have been reasonably perceived as one
yes
so now this is the moment where the
decision is made this right here this
frame is about .75 seconds
from when the officer shoots and we know
that when somebody makes a decision
that they have a between a 0.6 and a 0.8
difference from when they actually make
a decision to fire and when the gun goes
off that's how long it takes for them to
perceive the problem
decide to fire and and their brain to
make the gun go
off now you can argue that he should
have done better than that but he is not
physically capable of doing better than
that his brain cannot process the
information any faster than that
and so expecting him to do better in the
moment is expecting him to do something
that is not humanly possible and is
not capable by the human brain
so he sees in this moment guy has a gun
starts making a gesture and coming
around and that's when he decides to
fire
so then all this here when we stop right
here when the first shot goes off and in
the .75 seconds between
those two things that says hey wait a
minute this is when i decided to fire
and this is when the gun goes off it a
lot can happen in that moment and that's
why what looks like here
is whitaker is surrendering and he is
what it looks to me like he's got his
left hand out in his right hand trying
to put the gun down
but unfortunately because of what came
before that there's no way for him to
stop this decision-making process again
not humanly possible so therefore he
fires multiple shots because he's
already made the decision to do that
to make this guy stop what he perceives
as a deadly threat
the unfortunate and terrible truth is i
don't think that that whitaker
meant deadly harm to these officers and
so it's an awful thing
it is at the end a shoot that didn't
need to happen because of a cascade of
errors but i think the errors here
were number one the the neighbor who
called in at domestic violence
to the 911. i think that was morally
reprehensible and egregiously wrong
because he was just angry at him
for being loud number two i think coming
to the door with a gun
is okay but stepping out aggressively
bad idea
better much better idea and much safer
to challenge from behind the door and
see what's going on
certainly don't take hard steps out your
front door when you don't know what's
out there with a gun in your hand
from there we just have decision making
times and human performance factors from
the priming
and from what we saw that i think this
is awful but i don't think it's criminal
and i don't even think that he acted
outside of policy this
looks to me just from the video like it
was a
justified action because of those human
performance factors now of course
the investigation will have to tell what
did the officer say in the moment why
did he decide to do what he did and when
did he see what he did
but unfortunately friends this one looks
like one of those things to me that i
wish was avoidable that probably was
avoidable but in the moment
the officer probably didn't have any
other decision again
let's be respectful and kind in the
comments and talk about this one friends