as the historian thucydides famously
said the tactical pupper is fast but the
gold dot is faster
[Applause]
[Music]
hi friends welcome to today's bonus
badge cam lesson here at active self
protection i'm your host john korea and
with me as always mike willeberg today's
video comes to us from bendura
california palm pepper spray has
recently reformulated for even more
effect when you bless the deserving with
the hot sauce palm is what i use between
a harsh word and a gun and encourage
everyone to do likewise our perp here
has led multiple jurisdictions of
officers through a chase they have
wanted him they tried to pull him over
because he's wanted in a felony shooting
and he decided not to pull over they
finally got him with some stop sticks
we're going to see what happens here
when the officer finally gets him to
bail out of the car stand by
now driving in the center
where he's found on
harbor
oh
[Applause]
stop moving stop moving get on the
ground
get on the ground don't move
stay right there
gun behind us
the first shot you heard in that was the
perp shooting at the officer the other
shots were from the officer he was
better with the gun and so the perp took
the asphalt temperature challenge
everyone i get it we work on mindset
here it's incredibly important we're
glad to bring you this content if you
want to get better with your skill set
come over to the active self protection
extra youtube channel where we post
eight days a week to help you get better
with that as well let's get to the
lessons so they finally get this guy to
pull over right because they've stop
sticked in and all those things you've
got to know in this moment things are
going bad take that time if you can deep
breaths make sure you plan in advance
okay if i do get into shooting grip
sights and trigger those things because
you see this guy finally kind of bailing
out of the car you can just see it at
the top there that he's bailing out of
the car you know this is going to be a
bad moment you know bad stuff is coming
here now it's interesting to me mike
that this guy is calling his dog as well
we don't know that this guy's armed and
if he's not armed but he runs yeah
sometimes the tactical puppers is the
way to go yeah the fur missile is is
really a phenomenal tool we've talked
talked about this a lot lately on the
channel and yeah but he actually i think
that's the fuse is heal right is that
what it says okay yeah so he's just
keeping the dog with him he's not
sticking the dog on the guy just yet but
yeah the k9 is such a great great force
multiplier right up until the guy has a
gun right so if we are talking about a
fleeing felon if we're talking about
somebody who refuses to come into
custody we don't want to to end up
having to use more significant levels of
force great tool
but again this guy's gonna end up having
a gun and shooting at the officers that
makes the dog now a completely
inappropriate tool because now you got
to use deadly force and a canine is not
deadly force so you got to make that
transition and we're going to see that
here that the officer is able to make
that transition quickly when he sees the
guy take a shot at him you can just
barely see the muzzle flash there
and and now hear me on this one this is
where confidence matters because the
chance of this punk being able to hit
you from what looks to me to be about 15
to 20 yards something like that while
he's running away from you is slim but
your ability to hit at those distances
reliably can give you the confidence to
know that you can win this fight yeah
and bear in mind we want to stop his
actions as quickly as we can because
there's who knows what that where that
round's going to end up it might not hit
you but it's going to hit something or
someone and absolutely
you need to have the advantage
marksmanship-wise over these guys and i
think we for sure this officer did and
specifically in law enforcement context
i know we do a lot of training in the
three to seven yard range or even the
zero to three because of lyoka and those
things that say oh most officers are
killed at zero to three feet i think
those statistics are a little bit
misleading the gun fights at the
officers win they tend to win at much
longer distances so you've got to be
good at those long distances so that
they don't end up in those short
distance gun fights like we see here now
let's talk about what this guy did here
is you see the officer fire again so so
the officer finally steps in close
enough and look at this guy has turned
and is facing the officer with a gun in
his hand when we talk about your first
shot is often your best shot this is why
is that again every shot from here is a
more difficult shot for the officer to
make and it's i think human nature that
we're a little bit sloppy and hopeful on
the first shot and then we settle down
from there and get those others
really trained to that point of
unconscious competence that you can
bring all the skill that you possess on
demand here and get the hit the first
time yeah and if you again i'll harp on
this again officers deputies agents who
if you're not up to snuff with your
skills you know what already no one
needs to tell you
get to the range and practice the stuff
you suck at it's unpleasant it's not fun
but here's the good news once you get
better at it it will cease to suck and
you will cease to suck and if you're
having a hard time figuring out how to
not suck so much get some help people
want to help you they want you to be
good they want you to have each other's
back every single day that you're out
there on the force and on shift now
watch what happens with our bad guy here
you can see him actually bend over at
this point to pick up his gun so this is
another instance of an officer shooting
somebody in the back in a 100
justifiable manner the dude dropped his
gun and and now he is reaching down to
pick that gun up again why did the
officer shoot him while he was running
away because he's picking up a gun to
shoot at the officer again and and i
know we're sitting here with you know
hours to look and all those things and
all the time in the world and he only
had a split second but in that split
second because he's highly trained he
made the right decision there's a few
clear bright lines in law enforcement
training and just to have the things to
have in your head here is thing number
one this person has turned he's fired at
the police therefore he's not he's
willing to do almost anything to get
away
he's now fleeing again he dropped that
gun let's say
the officer saw him drop that gun
whether he dropped it intentionally or
not but he continues to flee then what
do we do
we shoot him because we don't know what
else he has he showed a propensity for
violence and he's attempting to flee
which means you don't know where he's
going to end up we can't let him go
uh i think the officer handled it
perfectly and now we see the guy that
falls down you can see the gun right
here so you can see the fact that he has
dropped the gun he's away from the gun
now he's on the ground the officer's
gonna tell him hey get on the ground at
this point so he gives him another shot
at this point and probably my guess
would be now again we don't know because
it ends up not happening the guy's gonna
tumble around a little bit get up for a
step or two fall over and then you know
briefly regret his life choices uh but
this might have been a good choice after
that if he had decided to keep moving to
use the fur missile to use the k9 to
drag that guy down or something like
that i think the officer did an
excellent job of shooting when he had to
so this was a must situation this guy's
shooting at me i must shoot him and then
when he was done when the guy's not an
immediate deadly threat the officer
didn't shoot at him and i think that
shows pretty good discernment right now
he's probably unarmed and he has stopped
fleeing therefore it's time to stop
shooting and he did a great job of that
so i think this shows a high level of
skill i think this shows a very high
level of professionalism which i think
we tend to see out of k9 officers
because of course canine is not your
first assignment you got to have a
little bit of experience you got to
really kind of be a pretty good player
in order to get into the canine world
and i think he did an excellent job of
that let's make sure that we recognize
man i think as you're coming to the
scene and waiting for that guy to bail
out of the car take that moment to
really take some deep breaths and to
remind yourself of your fundamentals if
you're gonna need them number two man do
everything you can to make that first
shot count because it gets harder from
there every time number three keep
thinking this officer definitely did and
he covered his asp