today we get to see an officer in my
hometown stop the threat and then
save the threat's life
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hi everybody welcome to today's bonus
badge cam lesson here at active self
protection i'm your host john korea
today's video comes to us from phoenix
arizona this one started with a domestic
disturbance
in the parking lot of an apartment
complex and that got security guards
involved
and when they went over to see what was
going on dude decided to take a couple
of shots at them
with a rifle that he had in the car
which then brought phoenix pd around
apparently the officers had actually
heard the shots come into the complex
and when they tried to make contact with
this guy he decided to run
from them and so they chased him for
quite some while
and what you're seeing here is some
surveillance cameras of the intersection
of 35th avenue and mcdowell in phoenix
where you're going to see in the top one
on the right-hand side now as the action
begins
our dude has already again apparently
hit another car
and now he's losing control of his
vehicle a guy in the car is actually a
prohibited possessor
felon who has multiple felony warrants
and
a a short-barreled rifle with him in the
car
so he wrecks the car up his girlfriend
who was the one he was in the big fight
with
um gets out of the car and starts
screaming for help you'll actually hear
her on the badge chems in a minute
driver jumps out of the car starts
firing his rifle at the officers and
they oblige him by firing
back we do have badgecam with audio so
let's listen
in what happens from here eastbound
washington eastbound washington
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998 suspect is down we have a female
that fled from the vehicle
so what happened there is a dude went
down and the rifle
is still about an arm's length away from
him so they slowed their roll got the
shields out got the less lethal with the
bean backgrounds
to try to get him hey man you know roll
over and away from that whatever
at least one of the shots hit this guy
in the leg they really want to get him
into custody
but what you're going to see here they
finally put a light on him and he's
flipping them off is what he's doing and
telling them all kinds of evil and you
can see the rifle there
so they're going to pop him with the
bean bag shotgun there to get him to
roll over and once they do
they're they're going to kind of figure
that stuff out hit him with the
2581 super sock i've used those on the
second channel on
extra you can see how they perform quite
well as you can see here
then they're gonna finally end up
getting this guy into custody in just a
minute they're gonna figure out okay
what's good he's not reaching for it
anymore
they're gonna go and now take this guy
into custody and as soon as they end up
getting him into custody what you're
gonna see here
is they're gonna have to start dealing
with his wounds of course police
officers once they have a suspect in
custody now they have a standard of care
that they have to provide reasonable
care to that suspect and somebody who
has got gunshot wounds and whatever
they're going to provide aid and they do
end up putting a tourniquet on this guy
which the news briefs said was pretty
instrumental in actually saving his life
because he was bleeding pretty good
they did save him he's facing a host of
charges aggravated assault on a police
officer and all that
and the officers did a great job and
that's where this one ends all right for
all my officer viewers you know you need
to carry your tourniquet and you know it
needs to be properly staged
for all of us who are non-sworn who in
here carries a tourniquet i carry my
first aid kit with me every single day
recommend you do as well so what
tourniquet do you carry every day to
help you with this kind of problem
highly volatile situation here obviously
this guy
you know prohibited possessor fell in
warrants got a rifle with him that
i am sure he doesn't have a tax stamp
for obviously he's a prohibited
possessor
so he wrecks his car up and they've been
chasing this guy for quite some while so
while chasing this guy officers make
sure that you are practicing
your combat breathing right your square
breathing so then that way your
your heart rate is as low as it can be
so you can make good decisions
also they come around the corner here
and you notice that woman jumps out of
the car she's screaming for help
but they may not know that which is why
we always say a quick scan of the entire
person and then look at the hands
she had empty hands she wasn't a threat
we know the officer who is in the
passenger side has his patrol car being
out
but thankfully he doesn't see her as a
threat because of that so that's
really good discrimination there a lot
of that because they put big bright
lights on her with the headlight so they
can see her really well that's going to
actually
come into play here in a little bit so
uh
watch now what goes down as the the
driver he doesn't care man he is just
going to be winging shots anywhere he
can
trying to get away from these officers
obviously endangering everyone
so deadly forces no brainer in this
particular case they have to use deadly
force
um and and have to to end this threat as
quickly as they absolutely can
because otherwise he's still endangering
the public and endangering the officers
and endangering the the female passenger
as well
so uh he's you know winging shots back
their way
you got to be fast and accurate in order
to get him down and down quickly very
difficult here
given the shooting challenge that the
officer faced so let's talk about that
as it comes up too
now when we start transitioning to the
body camps here you saw him actually
fall down get back up and it's finally
the second volley that got him down
i do want to note here that the officer
does indeed have a
light on his defensive carbine here on
his patrol carbine um
it looks like one that i wouldn't
recommend i'd recommend that you spend a
little bit of money on gear that has
much higher candela ratings and is much
tougher and will
live on patrol with you for a lot longer
than an in-force
but having a light on your patrol car
being a white light very important and
we're going to see why here
i also like that the officer because
they were stopping here he actually
opens the the car door and
uses his a-pillar really well uh and i
know
you know we've seen several times
recently that that we see officers
shooting through their windshield but
recognize until you shoot a porthole in
that windshield
it is those bullets are going to do
really odd things and you don't know
where they're going when they get 10 or
15 feet away from
the windshield so better in this case if
you can
to get the rifle outside so you're not
having to shoot through the glass that
protects you inside the car as well so i
think that was actually a really good
decision from him
now as i see the guy start shooting at
him obviously the officer is going to
come by and start getting shots on him
but think about how difficult this
marksmanship
problem is the second time especially as
the guy is going so he shoots at him a
couple times a guy falls down and gets
back
up now the officer is getting back after
him but he's shooting from a moving car
on a subject that's moving from his
right to his left but at a differential
speed that's likely bringing him closer
and so he's actually moving relatively
from the left to the right
and moving and shooting as well that's
about as difficult a shooting problem as
exists
but this is why i really like having a
red dot sight or a low power variable
optic
on a patrol car beam because you can
just get that up and put the the
dot where you want it and and again take
enough time to get a hit and the officer
did he did
a good enough time to get it hit now
what was the fight he was fighting he
was fighting again this looks like a
rifle that was ordered on wish.com
because it's filled with garbage and has
crappy sights and all that stuff but
still a guy is absolutely deadly with it
and in that case i'm really glad that
the officer had a patrol carbine you
know you got
an armed suspect i'd much rather go into
that fight
with a long gun than with a handgun if
at all possible and so i think the
officer had
did a really good job of getting his
patrol car being out because again
especially
they don't i don't think they knew it at
the time but they were fighting a rifle
fight here really rather not fight a guy
with a rifle with a pistol myself
thankfully he's no good with that rifle
but you know again skill matters more
than the equipment right and the officer
had more skill
and so therefore everything was good now
one other thing i really do kind of want
to think about a little bit here
and that is he's giving this guy
commands and trying to get him off him
but notice that he's not using his light
and and i i don't understand why it's
not a big deal the shooting's over he's
done a great job
but i would really recommend this is why
you want as much light as possible
actually i'd really like to activate
that light and i would like it to have
way more lumens and way more candela
than the light that he actually has
on the rifle you can actually use that
as a force multiplier if you've got
enough candela
that he can't see you and because of the
brightness of the light you can actually
see the lights in the background here
um are lighting the officers in a way
that the perp can probably see
them better than they can see him and
you want to reverse that problem so
so high quality white light on your
defensive carbine
is a must for officers i think and you
want to want to spend a little bit of
extra money on that it ended up not
being a big factor here
but notice later they're going to get
some light on him and that makes it much
easier to see what he's doing
now this guy continues to be
non-compliant right so they're like hey
man you know we want to get you away
from that and not endanger any of the
officers
in so doing but you're going to see him
get up here and and give them the finger
and continue to be non-compliant so i
gotta find a way to get this guy
into custody and i love that they went
back to the less than lethal tools
great use here of the bean bag round the
one thing that i would say is to to make
sure that
if you're on that bean bag ground that
you have really really understood
the trajectory of those they're pretty
accurate those super socks actually are
pretty good out to about 25 yards
um but you don't want to hit somebody in
the in the chest with those you don't
want to hit somebody in the head with
those for sure because they can become
lethal in a hurry
and you don't want to use it in that
manner this officer didn't he did a
really excellent job of that
so what i'm saying is if you've got a
less lethal beanbag make sure you
practice with it a good bit so that you
know
what the trajectory is you know where
your point of aim is
so then that way you get good hits like
this officer did finally i think it's
great that once they got this guy into
custody they put a tourniquet on and
make sure officers that you have a
tourniquet and that it is properly
staged the number of people
that i see and officers in particular
with improperly staged tourniquets
is astronomical the one thing when they
got this on notice here that they did
not secure the windlass strap that's one
thing that i noticed here they did not
secure the windlass strap after they got
the tourniquet on
and in this case it obviously wasn't the
end of the world but you want to put
that windlass strap
over so that as you move this guy it
doesn't bump that windlass
out of the stop and then that unravel
the tourniquet and now you've got a
bleeding problem again so make sure once
you put that that tourniquet on that's a
that's a combat application tourniquet a
cat
which is one of the best ones out there
crank that strap down
or crank the windlass down rather and
then close that windless
strap uh the the the strap closed
so then that way it doesn't go off these
officers did a great job protected this
woman protected their community and
saved the perps life they covered their
asp