i swear the taser is the sex panther of
defensive tools sixty percent of the
time it works
every time
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john korea today's video comes to us
from albuquerque new mexico
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these officers have been called here for
a welfare check two of the news stories
one said the son-in-law called him once
said his daughter called the officers
because the guy had not been at work for
several days hadn't picked up his check
wouldn't pick up the phone nobody had
heard from him
and these officers do have a significant
amount of history go read the news
stories that i've linked in the
description they know this guy he knows
them
and they're really respectful if you go
watch the you know raw video here
they're talking to him
he prefers to speak spanish even though
he understands english so they're
speaking at him in spanish and those
things
they're doing a really good job here
well in the process of all this stuff
they're going to find out that he has a
felony warrant for aggravated assault
so this transitions from a well check
into a felony you know warrant arrest
here
and things are going to go south we have
audio from the badge cam now let's
listen
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officers are going to end up getting
this guy in custody and doing what they
can in first aid and they got him to the
hospital and unfortunately
he did not make it this man's family has
filed a wrongful death
lawsuit in uh state court against the
officer in the department and the city
that's where this one ends seriously
crazy stuff and i will say
that a shovel is absolutely a deadly
force implement when used in this manner
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well checks are a function of law
enforcement and these are things that
officers have to respond to they don't
like to
but they have to respond to them and so
when we call them you go wait a minute
recognize for all of us that are private
citizens if you call the police to go
and check somebody out
sometimes that's going to escalate
thankfully it almost never does but when
it does outcomes like this
can happen secondly i really commend
these officers if you watch the original
they really did a good job of just
talking peacefully to this guy
and then once they realize he's got a
warrant of trying to talk him into
handcuffs and that's what officers do
every day
they really want to try to avoid
violence if at all possible but the
actions of the purple are going to
determine the outcomes
and that's exactly what goes down here
when they go hey man you know you're
going to have to go down and take care
of this warrant
then of course he doesn't want to go to
jail today and so he is going to decide
he doesn't want to do that
but of course the officer is not going
to want him to go inside the house and
here's why because once he goes in the
house bad things are coming so the
officer has to chase him here
and i want you to recognize that when he
gets inside the house we can see this
guy who has a felony warrant for
aggravated assault history with these
officers and all that stuff
now has this shovel in both hands in a
threatening manner quite frankly had the
officer shot him right here
i would not have had any problem with it
it would have been 100 percent justified
the officers justified to chase him in
the house
because again he's in hot pursuit of a
guy who's wanted for felony aggravated
assault no problems there and the dude
is right now is a deadly threat to the
officer but the officer doesn't do that
and instead goes for the taser and i
think that that is actually a pretty
cool thing trying to get this guy into
custody
i do want you to notice here this is one
of the newer tasers it's either an x2 or
a taser 7 i'm not sure which
that has two lasers the one that's up on
his body and the one that's down by his
leg
that shows where both barbs are going to
go that's actually a really good
improvement but recognize that you still
gotta you know
have those aimed in the right place in
order to get it i just want you to see
this is one of the newer models of taser
we're still gonna have significant
problems with the taser and i'm going to
show you why
we have those problems here so we chase
this guy back in the bedroom doesn't
want him to go in the bedroom
why not because there's lots of problems
there and now he's trying to get the guy
into custody and he's threatening him
with the taser and those
you know laser beams are used to force
compliance dude i'm going to tase you
this is where the barbs are going
that can get a lot of compliance those
don't make it on badge cams that gets
released to the public because nobody
complains about them
but i want you to notice here the
officer does have a good spread here so
he's got
one that's going to go into the
midsection one that's going to go into
the leg
that should give him good prong spread
however you have to keep those there
while you depress the trigger in order
to get the barbs to actually go in the
guy
because otherwise what happens is though
exactly what happens here is that you
can see
that he pushed him low left and so he
you know he jerked
that trigger and so the bottom barb just
completely missed the guy the top bar
might have missed him too
so now you got this clacking taser and
the guy knows oh no they're going to
take me into custody
and so now he's going to lift up that
that shovel like he's going to swing it
so now you can see the red that's on the
you know bed there then you go why
didn't you hit him with the second shot
of the taser these tasers do have two
shots well at this point
a a taser is not a useful tool this
guy's a deadly threat he's swinging a
shovel at you and trying to hurt you bad
with it put you in the hospital for sure
maybe even kill you so this is now a
deadly threat taser is not the right
response in this particular instance
because the guy is advancing
with that shovel in harm and now not
only is he
you know threatening with the shovel
he's actually swinging it so again we
have a violent felon wanted for
aggravated assault committing aggravated
assault against a police officer here
this is a hundred percent a deadly
threat officer backs up and this is the
place
where the first shot is going to go off
and you notice again
the guy has the shovel in a forward
location he is moving forward
towards the officer and threatening him
with that shovel some more and now
there's nothing between the officer
and the perp this is a time where you go
listen man i've got to defend my life
and deadly force is what i have to go to
there's no more questions about
what can i do he has to stop this right
now so there's when this first shot
breaks
with a decision was made on the previous
one on the previous stop
this is where the first shot breaks and
you can see exactly what's going on here
shovel is up guys advancing forward
officer brings the gun to bear
and puts the first shot on target but of
course you've got to shoot somebody once
there's a good chance you got to shoot
him several times and the officer runs
.3 second splits here so again the guy
is still coming at him there's another
one a third shot
we're gonna see a four shot a fifth
shot's gonna break why because the
officer again he made that decision
about a half second before
but notice as well that right at this
point is when the guy turns away from
the officer
and starts to drop the shovel and so
when he does that the officer stops
firing
and that is the correct answer here as
soon as you notice that as soon as you
see it
i think this officer did a really good
job of that of protecting himself
and then stopping firing as soon as the
guy goes
back towards things now however i want
you to pay attention to the fact that he
is going into the unknown had the
officer continued to fire right here
it would have been justified and the
reason for that is again
a guy is moving into a location where we
don't know he's a deadly threat
a fleeing felon and all those things but
the officer didn't and i think that that
is actually commendable he's trying to
get after the guy and make sure that
he's
you know the officer is safe when the
immediate threat stopped the officer
stopped and i think that's commendable
and uh
it showcases a high level of training
and professionalism now
i want to pay attention to his pistol
mounted light here because he does a
really good thing that i want to pay
attention to as well
that yes i think it's important for him
to have a pistol mounted light because
he wants to have both hands on the gun
but notice what a great job he does here
of using a very bright light and using
the spill
of that light rather than the beam of
that light in order to identify the
target he doesn't know where this guy is
and just want to point a gun at him
unless he has to actually shoot him so
he doesn't have to do that
because that light is very bright and
illuminates everything around not just
what the beam is on
and that's how lights work in 2020 and
beyond and so therefore i think the
officer does a really good job of that
here
and you can see it again he's not
pointing the gun actively at him because
the guy is not immediately a deadly
threat
and so they're going to get this guy
into custody and the officer i think did
a really good job i think they were
professional in handling their well
check
they were professional in trying to get
the guy to surrender and and
deal with his own warrants when they had
to protect themselves they did they
tried to use the taser which
which was great but of course a taser is
like the sex panther of defensive tools
60
of the time it works every time and then
they did what they had to do in order to
protect their lives
officers did a really good job on this
one of covering their asp