in today's video the officer gives this
guy every chance to not get shot
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officers have initiated a traffic stop
on this suburban because
they got it speeding and when they lit
him up he pulls into the walgreens you
saw his passenger jump out
and go inside the walgreens there and
you know that's not okay we're going to
talk about that
in a little while because maryland
versus wilson says nope all the
passengers
are included in taking of the vehicle so
what we have is we have the driver
officer is about to get out and he's
going to go deal with
the driver and the passenger officer
here is going to get out and go figure
out what's going on
with that passenger who just jumped out
because that's reasonable articulable
suspicion that bad things are coming if
you go watch the original here this
officer's interaction with the driver is
actually pretty cool
this officer is super chill this guy
ends up being on
parole and the officer is super chill
with him and and very kind ends up
letting him off with a warning
and just talking with him and is super
awesome it's really an excellent one
but really we care about the
interactions inside we have
badge cam audio for those so let's
listen in do you have an idea on the air
now
i don't i thought no weapons on you i
don't know i'll patch it down
okay well you're a detainer now relax
i didn't do anything hey
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blackmail
hey stop bro
stop get on the ground stop
hey you better drop the gun bro stop the
gun
drop the gun
got the gun bro stop the gun
got the gun got the gun
got the gun
570 he's got a revolver in his hand
got the gun now
got the gun
lay down on the ground
keep your hands up is he inside there
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yeah
with a gun people are running out of the
store we need them at the store
shots fired suspect is down
suspect is down we got the gun we're
gonna take him into custody
we're inside the store
uh towards the pharmacy 1141 code three
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up guard somebody glove up good enough
do not move your hands okay we ready all
right
i'm going to grab him by his feet i want
to drive him this way and they open you
guys ready
do not reach for nothing i have no
weapons do not reach for nothing i'm
going to drag you this way
on your face on your face on your face
oh my god
yeah we got the gun we got the gun we
got the gun slow everybody down
there we go 11 41 code three
yeah already in route yeah we're gonna
help you out okay
can i get something we're gonna help you
out
bro you can see that that one shot from
the officer
nicked this perp in the ear turns out he
is a convicted felon who was in
possession of narcotics
as well as a firearm and so yeah they're
gonna bury this guy under the jail
uh you know they've got him for
aggravated assault on a police officer
and you know he's gonna face a host of
charges and go to jail for a long while
no one else was harmed
not a joke and i have a question for all
my law enforcement and private citizen
viewers when's the last time you tried
a 15-yard shot at a head-sized target no
joke that
i wonder when the last time you do if
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i shoot this kind of stuff all the time
this is why like i said earlier the
court case of maryland versus wilson
says
that you know every occupant of a
vehicle is seized
during a traffic stop so the officer has
every right to expect a
a passenger in the vehicle to stay in
the vehicle or to get out of the vehicle
if they're told now whether they have to
identify themselves and those things
is a matter of state law but the fact of
the matter is that the officer can't
expect them to stay in the car and then
would a reasonable officer think that
crime is a foot here
yeah if the guy jumps out like that when
he knows that you know there's a cop
behind him who's lit him up in those
things so that's pretty well established
but now there's some interesting stuff
here as he talks to the guy and i and i
think
i really want to key on this for a
second is that the officer is very savvy
here is that he doesn't say anything to
the guy and give him any commands he
asks him some questions
he says do you have an id on you do you
have any weapons on you do you mind if i
pat you down real quick
so he didn't give him any commands and
and he didn't actually
seize the guy he's just trying to
investigate a little bit and that's
pretty savvy policing in my opinion
because now when the guy answers
commands this is a consensual encounter
not a detention at this point but when
the guy does try to walk away the
officer says no no you were involved in
this traffic stop
so you are detained at this point so as
the guy starts to walk away and the
officer says no no man
you are detained i also want to note
that the guy's got his hands in his
pockets and he won't take him out of his
pockets
also the guy is glancing around and
looking for his escape so all those
behavioral cues
yeah we know that there's big bad stuff
going on now we know in hindsight
that it's because we have a felon in
possession of a firearm and narcotics
and he knows that he is going to go up
the river for a long time on this
and doesn't want to i'm just grateful
that the guy is not
a murderer and decided not to have a
gunfight with the cop here in this
particular instance
we're going to talk about a lot from
there but tons of those behavior
accusing officer did a good job of
talking to him and trying to use his
words and hey man i really kind of need
to talk to you for a minute now dude
runs off so course officer is going to
chase him
given all of the circumstances here we
know that this guy is running from
detention he was informed he was
detained and now of course we see that
he has a firearm my guess is
you can see the guy was running with his
hand in his pocket and
i'm kind of guessing that he didn't even
really mean to
pull that gun but what the reality is is
that he was running with his hand in his
pocket when he fell he pulled
his hand out in order to you know
stabilize himself and the gun came out
with it
and now what well listen now this has
raised the bar
significantly because the officer could
certainly think that his safety is at
risk here and in fact it
absolutely is but this officer again
shows some real professionalism because
dude gets up here
and now there's a choice i want you to
think about this choice that the officer
has guy
is on the ground here has the gun out
but not pointed at the officer and the
officer has his hand out here's where
you got to make a decision you're either
going to back up here draw your own gun
and
very presumably have a gun fight with
this guy or you were going to
dive in and try to take control of him
and his gun with your bare hands
so that depends what level of skill do
you have which one do you think gives
you a better choice
that's a split second decision you gotta
make be ready for that in a moment and
have a high level of empty handed skills
to maybe get this guy into custody you
know with the gun
by taking control of it i think also
that this officer is an absolute pro
here
for not pressing the trigger here i
think if he had pressed the trigger on
this guy given the totality of the
circumstances i wouldn't have had any
problems with it and i think it would
have been justified but of course
given our political climate uh the
officer chooses not to he doesn't want
to be on the national news he doesn't
want his career to be over even though
it's a justified shooting
so he chooses not to and and with the
guy running away and those kinds of
things i think that was
a right answer but it is a dangerous
answer because a guy could turn around
at any time and in under half a second
get a shot off at the officer
that could prove fatal so this is a
dangerous path that the officer is going
on here
but it is i think an admirable one now
let's talk about his verbal loop that he
gets into here he says drop the gun drop
the gun drop the gun drop the gun and
and just keeps talking at the guy
and eventually here you gotta stop that
so notice here that
the suspect does say hey i'm gonna shoot
and and
honestly that is probably an indicator
that he
is not going to shoot in reality because
again this is a
threat and i think at this point he
knows he's done for and
and that's just a cry that man i don't
want to have the consequences of my
actions
so the officer watches his behaviors and
not his words and i think that's really
wise
now again there's that verbal loop here
right drop the gun drop the gun drop the
gun drop the gun you got to recognize
when it's not working and
change the words that you use i'm not
saying we've got a better result here
but recognize that those verbal loops
aren't helping you any so you know put
it down
listen to me get on the ground do what i
told you
you know drop the gun put it down
something else like that that gives him
another opportunity to put it through
his head what's going on because just
repeating the same command over and over
it becomes like charlie brown's teacher
and
nobody's going to hear it let alone the
perp so i like here that he took a
different route rather than chasing the
guy around
you know ring around the rosie i think
that was very wise and good
and one other thing i think that the
officer did here that i i think is
actually
really commendable is look at how far he
has maintained away
from the aisles that he is searching so
so many people they see this cover and
consuming and they
get sucked right up next to it which is
very bad for them but this officer here
is backed away off that cover which
gives him better angles
which gives him better visibility and
improves not only his ability to get a
shooting angle if he needs it but his
defensive angles so
really spend some time when you're
working on covering concealment backing
away from that cover a little bit
and and feeling the difference in how
much better
your angles get and and train that uh
even if you're not on the shooting range
you can just do that in your regular
life and get a feel for how that works
and that will serve you really well if
ever you're in this kind of a situation
now he's just telling the guy to drop a
drop and drop a drop and drop it again
and kind of sitting in on him and going
what am i going to do here and it's not
until his partner
comes in and shoots that the guy finally
goes down and and like he eats his
revolver
over behind the officer i'm not sure
exactly when that happened didn't show
up on the badge cam
but now now we've got a guy who's down
the gun has been released and so the
officer doesn't shoot anymore and
again excellent restraint here and good
decision making
tells a guy listen show me your hands
roll over on your belly those things
again giving him commands to get him
into custody i think is really cool
and a good job now let's think about his
secondary officer here who's coming in
all he hears he's got a gun
sort of his partner call out guy with a
gun he's threatening people with a gun
and so now he's got to get in here and
he's got to get in here in a hurry
now recognize gun out absolutely getting
in here and trying to figure out where
is
everyone i think is actually pretty wise
um one small knit to pick here
is that you know the officer's doing
fine pointed has gone in a safe
direction
i recommend that your trigger finger be
as high on the frame and on the slide as
you possibly can
even if you have the finger flexibility
to get your finger up in the ejector
port for a right-hander
gives you more margin for safety when
you are moving with a gun in your hand
and doing other stuff and thinking
so so recommend just as high as you can
be not low there way up high if you can
possibly do it
now he's gonna go try to find what's
going on and see what's happening and i
want to pay attention to what he does
here
is that he gets that gun up and at a
distance that i'm approximating at 25
yards i've kind of done as best
measurement as i can
using uh the size of the store where he
is where the bad guy is google maps and
those things to measure it
and i think this shot here is
approximately 25 yards give or take a
yard or two
and and a headshot at 25 yards is
darn fine marksmanship that is a a very
difficult shot and from the time he
brought the gun
up until the shot broke from in hand was
two seconds right
almost exactly two seconds and to get a
head shot at that kind of distance is
very serious
a very serious marksmanship test so your
marksmanship standards needs to be
very high to hit this kind of shot
secondly he's illegally justified
unequivocally yes
dude's got a gun waving it around
threatening cops threatening everybody
in the store with it
and especially given what he'd heard and
what he knew in the moment clearly a
justified shooting i don't have any
problems with it at all
you know i wouldn't have any problems
from a legal perspective with this a bit
so then the officer stops and now they
got to go and get this guy into custody
i also think that our officer did a
really good job here of muzzle awareness
because paying attention here his
partner stepped out into the aisle
so he lowers his muzzle that's
indicative to me a good training fact of
the matter is he missed by
just a bare number of inches on that
head shot
trying to put that guy down who is a
deadly threat and then
lowered his muzzle tells me the guy does
some significant training okay
and before we give him a hard time for
only perforating the guy's ear i want us
all to recognize that that head shot is
only really about a six inch circle
total
and and he hit the very edge of that six
inch circle at 25 yards in two seconds
that's a pretty high standard of
marksmanship
and so he should be commended for that
uh you know and and it worked
here's the bottom line let's think about
the fact of the matter is that this guy
has stopped fighting
and uh we talk about that well it might
have been better off if it was
an actual stop if you know he hit had a
bigger hit on the guy than the hit that
he got
okay maybe so but a psychological stop
is every bit as good
as a you know as a neuromuscular
incapacitation shot because the guy
stopped fighting and that's exactly what
we want here
and i think the officers did a again a
commendable job not pointing guns at
each other
not being unsafe with their firearms and
getting this guy into custody and if you
were listening at the very end
what he was doing and he said oh man my
life is over i'm going to prison for
life whatever and the answer to that is
yeah he is
because of what he has done now i
personally think that if you've done
your time then you should have your
civil rights restored but
being as it is right now he's a felon in
possession and he is going to go to jail
for a very very long time
and then lastly i really want to think
about that from this perspective if you
notice here you can see
the little bitty nick that was taken out
of this guy's ear right there you can
just see that little divot taken out of
his right ear
and that was enough to stop him in this
case that was enough to get him to put
down the gun and kind of reset his
thinking process
to go oh they really do mean business
and i need to put this gun down
that's pretty atypical but i'm very glad
that it worked
in this case and and again a
psychological stop is every bit as good
as the rest
so i think that these officers did a
really really fine job i think that they
also
should be commended for their hard work
and doing everything they could not to
shoot this guy
i think that it was dangerous the way
that they did that but given the climate
that we live in today i think that that
is something that they just had to do
so good job to these guys for covering
their asp