on today's badge cam we get to see a
combination of great physical fitness
good de-escalation and good marksmanship
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hi everybody welcome to today's bonus
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here of a phoenix police sergeant who is
in this neighborhood because of 9-1-1
calls of a man attacking a woman with a
large knife which turns out to be a tree
saw actually as we're gonna continue to
watch so uh people have called into
9-1-1 she is now looking for that
suspect and is about to find him we have
some badge cam audio from her as she
starts to interact with him let's listen
in
hey man get down on the ground
get down on the ground man
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don't do it you're going to want to stop
man get down on the ground
get down on the ground
he's running
towards 44th street
he came towards me
he does have something in his right she
chases him here for about 45 or 50
seconds down this canal way and i just
edited it for time
he's cutting north
off the canal
through
like a small ditch he's laying down
right now
i have one at gunpoint
he does have a knife in his hands laying
down on his back
okay
hey man what i need you to do is just
drop that knife
do you have a flashlight or something
flash
hey man what's your name i need you to
drop that
um
bro just drop the best way to get here
no get back get back get back
the best way to get here is off 44th
street
no man i just need you to drop the knife
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man i just need you to drop that that's
all
just drop it
i dropped it straight i see you i'm
right here
yeah you just need to drop it
just drop it
what's up dude we'll start talking
what's your name man
now that's what's your name
maybe that's my name but what's your
name
i need you to pick up now please
back up please help me yeah
no man i just need you to drop that
knife that's
it's time awesome you see my flashlight
brother
no no no stay down stay stay down
stay down you're gonna want to stay down
man drop it stay down and drop it that's
all
drop it and stay down
it's all right you're all good just drop
it talk
let's talk
just drop it
my flashlight is shining right at the
officers are headed directly towards me
keep driving on the canal bank
man just drop it
you're going to want to stay down there
don't come up here don't go up
9 9 8.
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you guys are headed directly toward me
keep coming
oh
yes
you're gonna want to stay right there
stay down
stay right there
there you go he's dropped the knife
dude what i need you to do
can you can we kick that knife away from
him can we kick that knife away from him
no
no please
no please that hurts
okay please god
please don't have any other weapons on
it
oh my god
i'm going cold
going cold oh god
all right
they do get the suspect into custody
here he is facing a host of charges from
the aggravated assaults earlier as well
as the assault on a police officer and
so the officer here is unharmed no other
community member was hurt as well
thankfully he was shot in the legs twice
and is expected to make a recovery let's
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better training so really the first
thing i want to talk to my officer
viewers about here my private citizen
viewers as well is the fact that you
want to have a bright light that has as
much candela as you possibly can because
you can see this guy's a little ways
away but he's not super far away maybe
30 or 40 yards tough to tell but again
the officer here is trying to shine a
light at him and really having a hard
time seeing enough of him more candela
more focused photons in the direction
that you need light so that they can
bounce off what it is you're looking at
bring it back to you so you can see it
with visual clarity is important high
candela the higher the better in order
to see what's at distance in the
darkness especially where you have
photonic barriers we don't have those
here it's in a very dark canal these are
common in arizona there's this water
canal run by the you know cap who
moves water about in arizona so they're
right next to a canal on the right-hand
side if you you know take a step big
step to the right you end up in the
drink now let's think about her drawing
a firearm here dude turns around and
starts stalking her so is she justified
to draw her firearm here absolutely
because she has the knowledge in her
head that this guy has it matches the
description of a suspect who has you
know assaulted somebody with a huge
knife again it turns out be a tree saw
so so yeah absolutely guy turns your way
after repeated commands hugely important
for you to have a firearm out in case he
decides to charge but i do think the
officer here did a really excellent job
of verbal judo and a really excellent
job of de-escalation hey man put it down
let's talk i need you to put that knife
down let's you know get on the ground
whatever and she doesn't raise her voice
i think that was really good i mean she
raises her volume without raising her
tone and that was really important next
thing here physical fitness i think is
important for police officers especially
has to have about a 45 or 50 second
sprint here to get to this bad guy and
she does a pretty darn good job of that
here and is able to maintain enough
control of her body and of her mindset
and of her breathing in order to do good
work when she gets there and she sees
this guy in this you know a ditch
that he's laid down so physical fitness
helps you not only to to fight the fight
but also to maintain enough mental
presence when you get there to continue
to think i think as well she continues
to do an excellent job of talking here
with this guy
of using her words of saying hey man
what's your name talk to me oh he calls
her a bad name i get it man but that's
me what's your name not what's my name i
got my name what's your name and those
kinds of things so uh does an excellent
job now i want to talk for a minute to
my private citizen viewers if you want
to help a police officer first of all
make sure that you're in actual help but
don't sit there with your freaking phone
out that's ridiculous number two she
asks him if he has a light i think every
private citizen should have an
incredibly bright light number three you
should certainly ask whatever the
officer needs if you want to help an
officer ask them what help they want let
them be in charge of that situation
don't put yourself in a spot that
compromises what they're doing in order
to kind of insert yourself where you
think you belong because they're in
charge of the situation so ask for the
help here of uh you know what do you
need from me officer how can i support
you have a bright flashlight on you have
your med kit on you and if you had a gun
in this case she's got the gun out leave
yours in the holster and unless she
asked for that hey officer i am armed
can you help me
now then he gets up and she's using a
technique here with her flashlight that
i love i want to talk about this real
quick my favorite technique if it comes
time to shoot is either a neck index or
a temple index that allows that light to
be up and high and lets you see your
sights in order to get the kind of hit
that you want that's very important you
can see here that you're still able to
illuminate the threat big time and see
the sights on your gun and that comes
with just a tiny bit of throw you don't
need a huge amount of throw so practice
those techniques and those low-light
techniques matter now of course the
shooting techniques really going to
matter here we'll talk about that in
just a second but notice that she
continues to use her words and tell him
what he needs to do this is crisis
communication here put it down get on
the ground whatever clearly he has
contaminated thinking he's non-compliant
he is you know moderate emotion here
it's a high emotion is really where it
goes because he's calling her names and
those kinds of things now she has to
have a marker of when she's gonna go
and if you go read the news story when
he steps up here she said i knew i
didn't have anywhere to go that i had a
private citizen i had to protect that
that we were going to end up in the
drink and i was all by myself and i
couldn't let him climb up that bank with
a a big knife like that that that was my
marker to go for him so i think the
important part here is she's emotionally
present enough mentally present enough
to know what her line in the sand is to
know when she's gonna act and if he
steps up on that you know from that
culvert she's gonna have to shoot him
and that is her place that she knows
that and does a good job so now what
we're going to see here is she's going
to continue to issue him commands then
that first shot is going to break
marksmanship so important here she
shoots him in the leg friends and quite
frankly that was dangerous because he
could have kept coming we've seen that
on the channel multiple times so
especially don't neglect your one-handed
shooting you really got to focus on grip
you really got to focus on pinky power
you really got to focus on seeing enough
of your sights having enough grip on the
gun to press the trigger to get the kind
of hit that you want and not get that
low left push that is so common which
means you got to have your marksmanship
standards very high secondly she shoots
exactly a 0.5 split here so the gun goes
up once and goes a second time second
one hit him in the legs as well for most
people at these kind of distances i'm
gonna guess somewhere around seven yards
here kind of hard to tell with the
lighting and all that stuff but
somewhere in that neighborhood and in
that vicinity that half second split is
pretty sporty for most people if you're
a really high level shooter that can
actually work but for most people pretty
sporty so that means again did she need
to shoot that fast i think yes and so
therefore your marksmanship skills have
to be high work on your single-handed
shooting and your low-light application
with the handheld light here could she
have had a pistol-mounted light and two
hands on the gun the answer to that is
absolutely yes but she doesn't look like
she has one of those and and i would
suggest that law enforcement officers
have a pistol or you know mounted light
for just this reason this is why i think
four police officers that a
pistol-mounted lie is really good for a
private citizen on the other hand you
probably wouldn't need this right you
would just run away from this problem
you probably wouldn't run to it so uh
you can do exactly what she does here
with the handheld light and and the
handgun out but for a police officer
this is why i think a pistol man alike
if it's trained with well can be a
valuable asset i think it's awesome that
again even after all this goes down she
maintains her emotional fitness and
that's why we say that emotional
presence to stay you know calm calm
being a superpower she did a fantastic
job of that and and wasn't all amped up
and i think that this uh patrol sergeant
really did an excellent job in every
aspect of this particular encounter that
she stayed present she tried the
de-escalation strategies but recognizing
this guy had contaminated thinking high
emotions non-compliance and and when it
came time to protect her life she did
and did a fine job they ended up getting
this guy into custody doing medical
attention on him and and getting
everything okay and no one else was
harmed great job for her let's think
about here having the brightest
flashlight we can practicing our
one-handed techniques knowing for sure
that our marksmanship skills are super
strong in that moment to cover our asp