the reason that we recommend the ar15
pattern rifle for both patrol officers
and for private citizens
is its good effectiveness and ease of
use
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police received a 911 call from a woman
who said that her husband has been
making
political statements and fired a gun in
their house
three times the neighbor actually called
911 as well
because those three shots went into her
house though thankfully they did not
harm anyone officers have set up a
perimeter and
are attempting to establish a cit a
crisis intervention team
when he is going to step out of the
front door
that you can just barely see to the
right of the closed garage
there he is here he is code red
yeah hey just come out show us your
hands
subject left onto but he did right
though no one has been longer
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put your hands up sir hands up
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officers fired a total of four rounds
when he produced the gun
he was declared deceased at the scene
there were no other injuries and that's
where this one ends
i think today's video leads me to a
question and it's this when's the last
time that you trained with your
defensive carby not just went to the
range and pop some rounds off
i'm talking got under instruction and
actually got better with your rifle i
try to take some kind of rifle class
every single year 2021 with jeff
gonzalez of trident concepts years past
with some
other incredible instructors so i'm
wondering what you're taking
in order to get better with your carbine
these officers did a really good job of
de-escalation technique here following
the isen approach i-c-e-n
isolate contain evacuate and negotiate
so that maintains
their discretionary time and when we
talk about discretionary time that's
time i don't have to act
right now that i can try to make contact
with him i can try to build rapport with
him
i can try to influence the suspect's
behavior here and
and officers i think did a really good
job of that in this instance they're
trying to use their megaphones they're
trying to maybe call him
they're talking to him about his wife
those kinds of things trying not to you
know have a use of force incident with
this guy although he's already fired a
gun so they know man this is bad juju
coming up
so i think these officers did a really
good job of that you notice they've kind
of
kept back away so that they have some
space in order to give the guy some
space not crowd him and try their best
now then notice here as well that he has
his hand back behind his back
and i want to always say again whether
sworn or non-sworn
the eyes may be the windows to the soul
but the hands are the windows to the
intent you always got to watch the hands
the hands is where the danger is coming
from so you know you can see his right
hand there but not his left hand that
he's got tucked behind his back that's a
big clue when somebody comes out
and they're hiding something behind his
back it's not a dozen roses
so be aware of that now that said watch
what goes down now as he is going to
then
you know pull that firearm out and point
it and i want to pay attention
specifically to how long that takes
not very long so as we watch him go here
i've slowed it down just for the sake of
time you can see
that in .6 seconds if you time it on the
original what happens there is from
him moving the gun to having the gun out
and pointed at an officer's .6 seconds
now we know from human performance study
that it takes at least
that long for somebody to perceive a
threat decide that they need to do
something about it bring the gun
up and press the shot so there's no way
you're beating this guy coming out from
that perspective
okay so so what we want to know from a
human performance
position is that you're going to be
operating on an initiative deficit but
you can then get ahead and of course is
this a deadly threat yes guys now
pointing a gun at you you have absolute
right to protect yourself so it's
absolutely justified beyond a doubt
that these officers acted in in decent
ways so now this officer gets behind
cover i think that's a wise thing now
let's think about our our first officer
who fires his pistol here and i do want
to say
that he is running an iron-sighted
pistol and i've done the measurements on
google maps and he was right about 80
feet away from
this guy at the front of his house so
about 26
27 yards and that's pretty good shooting
with an iron sighted pistol it is a
reason that you know these kinds of
longer shots are really custom made for
a red dot sight and if your department
allows it
or as a private citizen you know you can
i do recommend a red dot for these kinds
of shots again you're going to see these
more in law enforcement than in private
citizen encounters
would make it a lot easier but saucer
did okay i think he got a hit here and
so you know when he needed to and that's
good he did a couple other things here
that i think are really good as well
which was to brace himself to give him a
little bit more
opportunity to get a good stable side uh
vision and a side alignment
now then again we're going to see this
guy come up and one of the things that i
want to pay attention to here is a
partially obscured target so it's not a
full value target that the officer is
looking at here when the guy starts
pointing a gun at him
is that the officer has to take a very
carefully aimed shot here
and he did do that very thing and got
the hit that he needed to get so
again practicing those shots at 25 30 35
yards
can really help you very difficult shot
with a pistol but because he's able to
brace that shot
and get it where it needed to go he
ended the threat very very quickly
the other part of that i think that is
important is recognizing that
hey again i'm behind some covers so my
chances of having good marksmanship are
very strong now let's think about the
officer who is on the carbine here
and i do want to note that he does have
a tree in front of him that he kind of
just
hides behind a little bit now backing up
off that tree is one thing because it
gives him a little better visibility
might have been and i don't know if he
did this or not might have been useful
to actually use that tree as a barricade
as something he could set his rifle on
so that
it is a little more stable and the
shot's a little easier he's at about 35
yards is how far he is
with a red dot equipped rifle so that's
not the world's most difficult shot but
take every advantage you can again i
don't know if he tried that didn't get a
visibility in those things i do want to
note
comes up with his rifle and instantly
takes the safety off i don't want to
give him too much of a hard time about
this
but remember we only take the safety off
when we have made the decision to fire
it's one of the things with the ar
pattern rifle
i i wouldn't recommend actually looking
through your red dot sight until you
actually are ready to fire it's one of
the things we can get very close to take
a very
high low ready position and still see
our dot in our peripheral vision and
then bring that dot up take the safety
off break the shot when we need to but
he did some excellent things here
including
good finger trigger finger discipline
which is very very important good
communication you let the other officer
talk
while he is trying to figure out what he
needs to do and seeing well
now he does again check his safety here
but i want to note that he is uh
keeps his finger high and off the
trigger until he's made the decision to
fire
i would encourage you that the manual of
arms of the ar-15 or the heren m4
platform uh and pattern of rifle is to
take that safety off when you've made
the decision to fire
because that is again another extra uh
you know layer of safety there for you
now watch notice what happens here as he
is going to press his finger on the
trigger he does a really good job
of getting enough refinement in his
trigger press to get the hit that he
needs and again 35 yards that's not a
you know it's not a chip shot but it's
not the world's most difficult shot with
a carbine
that said it does take enough refinement
to get your hit and i really like here
that the officer didn't just
blast away on the trigger that he
actually put his trigger finger his pad
of his finger on there and then applied
pressure while maintaining
the enough accuracy with his dot to get
the hit that he needed and he did get a
hit
on these both these shots is from what i
have been able to glean from the news
stories
so as we watch that go slowly here gets
a good trigger press and then a reset
notice he doesn't ride the reset and
hold that trigger pin to the rear
he immediately lets it reset as the
rifle recoils so that he can get back on
his sights
get back on his trigger and get
follow-up shots as he needs to and then
takes enough trigger press there
to get the hits that he needed excellent
marksmanship fundamentals there from him
and i also want to note he took two
shots and got three psych pictures and
that
is i think a tribute to good training in
that particular instance
that he had enough refinement in his
sight picture
then used his trigger appropriately
didn't endanger anyone else because the
safest backstop of course
is the deadly threat and so he did an
excellent job of that
these officers i think were true
professionals i think they did the very
very best they could
i think they tried to establish a
rapport with this guy but of course
the perp gets a vote in that and when he
decides he doesn't want to be
de-escalated the officers absolutely
have the right to protect themselves and
the entire community from his actions i
think both of these officers
showed excellent marksmanship
fundamentals i think they protected
themselves and their community and
covered their asp