when you gotta reach out and touch
someone who's a long way away
the thing you want in your hands is a
rifle
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officers are on scene trying to
apprehend a suspect who is wanted for
firing a gun in the air
in this complex the week before they've
been doing some investigations they know
who this guy is you saw him just walk by
a little bit ago and these officers are
trying to uh
take him into custody they're gonna be
multiple officers here we have badgecam
as well as the police department
actually released
a private citizen cell phone camera of
part of it let's listen in
put them up in the air put them on put
them on put them up
stop back up back up back up back up
back up
put your hands up gang five six he has a
gun put your hands up
put your hands up jeremy sacramento
put your hands up jeremy
jeremy put your hands up drop the gun
move get out of the way
get out of the way jeremy drop the gun
drop the gun jeremy drops a gun
get out of the way
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jeremy drop the gun
drop the gun go jeremy are you alive yes
yes drop the gun jeremy drop the gun
man get out of the way get out of the
way
get out of the way jeremy drop the gun
drop the gun jeremy it's not worth it
it's not worth it
jeremy drop the gun the gun we don't
want to shoot you i'm gonna shoot you
we don't want to shoot you hear me drop
the gun
get out man go
go jeremy put the gun down
drop the gun put the gun down
gang five six he has the gun halfway up
he says he's not going
drop the gun drop the gun
jeremy you're going to get shot drop the
gun we don't want to shoot you
jeremy drop the gun
and i'm going to go around the other
side
drop the gun jeremy
drop the gun can you see him yes
nope
jeremy drop the gun it does not have to
go down like this
jeremy drop the gun
we're in the center facing northwest
near the pool
jeremy drop the gun drop the gun
there's people in that lobby
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he's got the gun raised he's on the
phone
jeremy southern drop the gun
he's saying he's not going back
go on that side is that body cam on
shot i'm gonna take a shot back out
there
shots fired
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get on your stomach
i got radio you guys take that on your
stomach
one down the gun is away from effect
right now
you guys want to move up okay hands
set of gloves here right here
stay on the ground
keep your hands down in front of you and
get fired
straight out dude
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he's going towards the gun where's the
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gun
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you got a handgun
can we get i'm gonna check if we can get
on this side
hey bonnie's on the ground right there
on the left-hand side you're good to
move on yeah
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now once the officers are able to get up
to him here they're going to take that
gun into custody
and take this guy into custody and then
they're going to administer first aid to
him
but shot twice with a rifle that's just
not going to happen he took the asphalt
temperature challenge here
no one else was harmed and that is where
this one
ends pretty awesome shot when the
officer had to take it
terrible situation to have to take it in
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will ya
let's think about lessons from today's
video bunch of stuff for us to talk
about here i'm going to speed up in some
parts where we don't want to necessarily
spend time
but why would they pull a gun on this
guy because again he has a wanted
suspect who has been firing a gun
in the air and they know him now what we
see right here let's talk about
distances now i can't see the gun in his
hand
but i don't know exactly when he got the
gun in his hand
this shot right here i'm gonna estimate
is right about
seven maybe eight yards long now i know
it looks a little longer than that
but that is the fisheye effect and that
is the you know
the distance dilation effect that you
see on badge cams so
i think what we see here is about a
seven or eight yard shot and notice this
officer's got the gun
up but i also want you to notice he's
got a cell phone in his hand
if it's time to have a gun on somebody
get that cell phone out of your hand as
fast as possible to get two hands on the
gun
now as we sneak in here again i can't
see the gun in his hand i've blown this
up as far as i can
but at this point the officer says he's
got a gun he's got a gun he's got a gun
so you can just barely maybe see it in
his right hand there
a little shadow of it but notice the
fact that he doesn't have the gun
up and the officers i think gave this
guy literally every opportunity to drop
the gun
and then some would have been justified
for them to shoot this guy at this point
having already given him multiple
warnings to
drop the gun i think the answer to that
is yes but they're gonna give him
every chance imaginable so they back off
to cover okay fine
recognize that does put them at
additional risk anybody that comes out
of that building at additional risk
and and uh the the bystander his
girlfriend or whatever at additional
risk as well
now notice here i want to see what we've
got in terms of this distance they've
backed off a little bit i'm going to
estimate at this point we're talking
about a 15
to 17 yard shot now the officer whose
badge cam we are looking at right now
look at what he has to look at he has
not only the suspect he's got a good
backstop behind him
but he has an innocent bystander in
between him and that is a very thin
margin
i think this is a good reason at a 15 to
18 yard shot
to have a red dot sight on your pistol
if your department allows it absolutely
reasonable
and very useful to have a red dot of
course it doesn't make you a better
shooter but boy can it help you refine
sight pictures at distances 15 yards and
out
i think both officers here could have
pulled the trigger but again the
marksmanship standard says you've got to
have enough space you know to in order
to do so and
and you've got to have the ability to
press the trigger and hit what you're
aiming at at 15 yards incredibly
important here
and that's why i say to all my officer
friends that they need to have a
standard that's more than just meeting
the qual but is
excellent at shooting so in that way you
can do that
now notice here a bad guy moved over and
what we saw when
when the camera comes up when the the
cell phone camera comes up
is recognized that he has moved over
here so he can get a view at and a shot
at this officer
now when we start talking about can you
shoot someone should you shoot someone
must you shoot someone i think we've
moved from can here to should
should the officer have shot this guy i
think the answer is probably yes
he moved over there with a gun up and
and pointed at the officer
officer probably should have taken
action but his kind of his
um saving grace here is the fact that
the guy probably couldn't hit him from
there anyways
now notice here that both officers are
looking at a guy pointing a gun at them
and have given him enough commands at
some point you got to just
let go of the verbal loop right they
kept saying drop the gun drop the gun
drop the gun you got to change
your methodology i will note that the
officer that's on the left side screen
right now has
excellent trigger finger discipline
that's something that you got to really
ingrain
a lot of people check the trigger and if
you're paying attention you actually is
kind of thinking about checking the
trigger but it doesn't good training
there
and again having the ability to pull
that shot off from a braced position
like this
is i think important and waiting man
makes it much more difficult 15 to 18
yards
but of course right there he had a poor
backstop if he had missed and now a much
better one
now then as these guys are coming up
what we're going to see is we're going
to see officers show up here pretty
quick
with the carbines and that's a pretty
big deal so
now when we see the officers show up
with the carbine couple things about
that number one a
15 to 18 euro yard shot with a pistol if
you're you know not accomplished with a
pistol is a bit of a shot
but with a carbine with a defensive
rifle like this this is a chip shot
especially a red dot equipped or a low
power variable optic equipped rifle
um a 15 to 18 yard shot like this
especially from a braced standing
position he is bracing that rifle
against the wall
and so he's a very still sight picture
this is not a difficult shot to take
which is great which is a great reason
to have the rifle
second thing that you're going to see
here is when he decides i'm going to
take the shot as you notice that first
rifle round that he put center mass in
the guy
absolutely wrecked his day there's a big
difference between
what the rifle round does and the pistol
round does a pistol round will probably
make him run off we'll make him start
changing things for sure
but that rifle round absolutely
disrupted his central nervous system you
can see what it did there to make his
arms go out like that
that's that that hydrostatic shock
effect that that bullet does because
it's doing more than 2250 feet per
second
it absolutely can can shut the
electrical system off in a human being
for a few seconds and
really make a difference in things not
to mention the fact that that it goes
beyond the permanent wound cavity to the
temporary
now then these officers keep looking and
keep seeing keep looking through their
sights i don't blame them for slow
playing at this point
because you go well why don't they just
run up and kick the gun away you don't
know exactly what's gonna happen
okay we've got a threat that we have to
continue to neutralize
it's good to slow your roll when you
don't have to go fast and they didn't
have to go fast here
so they didn't put on gloves let's get
everything right now this guy then
decides
again to go back towards the gun and he
you know again when he's just crawling
they're giving him commands
good simple positive commands i think
they did a fantastic job of that here
and they're communicating well together
but let's think about this last shot so
it's the officer on the other side that
took this second shot
and was he justified to do that i think
the answer to that is clearly
yes at this point the guy has obviously
been pointing a gun at officers for a
significant amount of time
the guy has you know been shot already
and now he's been issued multiple
commands
not to and now he's crawling back
towards the gun does the officer need to
wait for him
to get all the way to the gun in order
to take the second shot no he does not
that that fear of imminent harm to
everyone else is around and so after all
those commands given the totality of the
circumstances
it was absolutely reasonable for him to
take that second shot
to keep him from getting to that gun
which he could have in a in about a
second if he had decided
to sprint towards it or something like
that now from here on out it's
administrative i think the officers did
a pretty darn good job of talking to
each other here
slowing their role being smart and
problem solving the biggest thing that i
see
all the time is as soon as the gun fight
stops now we have to start problem
solving
how do we end this threat how do we get
this guy into custody how do we secure
everything else
and how do we get to a place where we
are all safe and i think they did a
pretty decent job of that here
you know okay let's get some shields
let's get everybody up let's slow play
i'm just gonna sit here and keep this
and stay long oh okay fine but i
actually also do like what they said hey
we probably have too many rifles here a
couple people put your rifles away
so then that way let's sling them now
this is a great reason i think any rifle
you're taking outside the home needs to
have a sling on it
certainly well the big things here i
think for all of my officer friends
number one i think your pistol
marksmanship standards need to be high
way higher than your post call you need
to be able to hit that 15 to 25 yard
shot
on command center mass no question about
it i think you need to have a patrol
rifle if at
all possible because if you need to take
that shot far easier with the patrol
rifle with a red dot
or a low power variable optic on it than
with a pistol so having that available
and having the ability to do that
excellent i do think these officers
showed remarkable restraint
gave this guy literally every
opportunity to drop the gun
and not you know end up dead like he did
and he gave him every opportunity again
this is not a good guy he was the
suspect who was shooting guns in the air
in this apartment complex the week
before so they knew he was armed and all
those things i think this is the stuff
that cops do
every day across america and they
generally do a fantastic good job of it
these officers did a darn fine job gave
the guy every chance he could
then stop the threat when they had to
and covered their asp