whether you're a law enforcement officer
or a private citizen it
is the perp who gets to set the timing
of your gunfight
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the guy that the helicopter is following
is a real boy scout who
is a prohibited possessor a felon who is
driving a stolen
car and has a sawed-off shotgun sitting
across his lap
and officers tried to initiate a traffic
stop on him because he was driving too
fast
which made him take off and lead them on
120 mile an hour chase
through the city streets here and
they're trying to set up a kind of a
perimeter and not
you know chase him directly so that he
slows down a little bit
and they're going to want to take him
into custody obviously they found out
that the plate that's on the car was
stolen off a different car and that car
was stolen as well
and so this guy is a real boy scout
let's listen in
on what the helicopter says from there
this guy in i think now is a good chance
if you want it
seven eight one if you thumbs up a long
gun we're not going to try and block him
okay you made a u-turn to westbound
twain
not a vehicle okay shots are fired
first badge cam is the officer who has
uh the driver's side he's got a red dot
and notice he puts about four shots
downrange on him before the guy stops
we actually have the badge cam from the
other officer as well he's gonna get out
and
get to work as well fire 11 rounds at
the guy
and uh nobody else was harmed in this
thankfully he didn't get the perp didn't
get any shots off on the driver or the
officers
the perp ended up taking the asphalt
temperature challenge and that is where
this one ends
okay today's video leads me to a
question who has transitioned in our
community to a red dot
on their pistol i was kind of an early
adopter
in the red dot game i've been running
dots on pistols for about three years
now and
i will never go back to iron sights but
i'm curious what you're running on your
gun
anybody else running an iron let me know
in the comments would you
the officers who respond here are
actually plainclothes officers who are
kind of in the area to assist patrol
and kind of do crime prevention stuff
and they lay off this guy quite a bit
because they're trying to get him not to
do something stupid like what ends up
happening here but as always
the perps actions determine what happens
and he decides he's going to carjack a
different car
so they're going to move in at that
point because they got him stopped and
they said listen if he doesn't pull a
gun
we're not going to get him at this point
and so when he gets out and pulls a gun
though they got to do something about
that right now let's think about this as
the officers are bailing out
this is why we always talk about the
first rule of firearm safety is we
always keep firearms pointed in a safe
direction
because when we start looking at the
officers and what's going on here what
what do they have to do they have to
respond now let's think about the
private citizen here
in the red car and i know people are
going to go wait what should
the private citizen do you have an
accelerator pedal for a reason i think
probably better than a gun here
if the private citizen was armed
themselves is to use
that that gas pedal and get on the gas
and just smash this guy quite frankly
he's putting a shotgun at you
you have no no reason not to use deadly
force to stop it there
now then let's think about the officers
officer over here on the left-hand side
look at how narrow his window is here on
just to the right of his guy
is the people in the car that is being
threatened behind them
an open street now the officer on the
other side is
noticed that he has the gray car between
him and the perp
so he has to be careful not to point a
firearm at the
people inside the vehicle so when we
talk about the rules of safe firearms
handling
they apply for good people all the time
and rule number one is we always keep
firearms pointed in the direction of
least consequence
of course the direction of least
consequence is directly out the perp
right because this guy needs to be
stopped
right now probably the best way to do
that for these officers is to shoot him
at this point
and would be for the passenger in the
car as well in the red car
because you know again he's not going to
be able to get him with the car and
probably if he's armed there that's the
best one
but you gotta watch that you don't point
guns in innocent people so these are
very narrow windows
say firearms handling very very
important so now
notice here as well what we have is you
notice officer all the way on the left
and you notice the two officers getting
out of the car that's all the way to the
right
that what we almost have here is a
taliban wedding celebration as these
guys
are going to all point guns all around
is you got to be very careful and watch
out for those kinds of things which is
why
again pointing those firearms in a safe
direction and once the shooting stops
going to a low ready position getting
your muzzle you know diverted and pushed
down just a little bit
so you can see what's going on all
around very very important thankfully
nobody else harmed here and i don't
think any of the officers did point guns
at each other but that is you know a
thing that we really want to pay
attention to
now again i want to go back to thinking
about the driver of the red car here for
our private citizens
notice this guy jumps out and starts
pointing a gun at you and that car
is engaged in drive and absolutely able
to be
used in that moment now you might say
but john it's not going to be safe the
fact of the matter is i might very well
get in a car wreck here or something
like that well
the chances of getting hurt by the guy
pointing a shotgun at you is pretty high
use your accelerator pedal and get off
that guy in a hurry
now we got to think about the badge
camps let's think about our officer here
getting up and getting on his red dot
sight so he is
running an rmr equipped handgun here
which i think is a great idea i think
should be mandatory i'll tell you why in
a second
and the biggest thing here is the fact
of the matter is people say oh the red
dot side is it useful is it good the
answer to that is yes
in fact i think that they should really
be mandatory and we should all be moving
in that direction but
it will not grip the gun or trigger the
gun for you so you still got to do your
marksmanship fundamentals
but notice here he's got a full
presentation of bad guy and so he's
going to go to work on this guy and
start putting shots in him so first shot
breaks here and again he's got a full
presentation
put the dot on the guy it's about seven
or eight yards here
and press the trigger smoothly to the
rear and then he's going to run
around 3 10 splits or quarter splits
here
to get after the guys see the first one
break second one breaks and again guys
still got the shotgun out
we're going to be able to see that in
future things and he's running about
quarter second splits here
and is a quarter second split
appropriate yes look at the backstop
behind him he's got the gun pointed in a
safe direction
and at seven or eight yards on a full
value uh presentation target like this i
think that's a
very appropriate pace and so the officer
is doing a good job because
he looks to me to be highly trained well
grip gone good up in the sights and
those things again another quarter
second split
now he made the decision to shoot this
shot here
right you know right as he fired the
first one takes about a half second to
make a decision
to start shooting the gun and about a
half second to make a decision to stop
shooting the gun and actually make that
happen
so when we look at when the decision was
made to shoot this shot it was a little
bit earlier
and so that final shot that we go off
there if we're looking and stopping the
camera we say oh wait a minute the guy
was on the ground
why did the officer fire this shot it's
because he made the decision to fire the
shot
half a second before when the guy was
still up and still had the shotgun in
his hand
that's how fast things can change now
that said here a quarter second later
when the guy was
going down is when the officer decides
to stop shooting
and that is why things go down here and
he stops shooting at that point
so again i think that because he's
focused on the target because that's
what a red dot does
that is why he's able to stop shooting
relatively quickly
now i also want to notice that he
finally after the shooting stops guys
down now he gets on his radio i think
that's great
win the fight first then get on the
radio and do what you need to do you've
got everything present to win the fight
right where you're at
no one's else is showing up to help you
win the fight only communicate when you
need to communicate communicate
meaningfully i think he did a very good
job of that here
and then got him in a correct manner now
now notice the other officer here he's
going to get his gun out but i want to
pay attention to the fact
that you notice that his strong side
thumb is curled
down onto the gun this is pretty common
thing but i don't think it's the best
way to grip a handgun when you're
getting it out of the holster you want
to flag that thumb nice and high if you
don't have a big beaver tail actually
even use
a claw grip to get that gun out because
you got to fill the other side
you got to fill the your support hand
into the other side when your thumb is
curled down like that
you're going to have a very difficult
time and that's what this officer does
and it causes him significant problems
so paying attention you notice here that
because he's got that thumb curled down
if you look at his hands right now
there's all this unfilled space so he's
taking shots at this guy
and having a difficult time this is
right before the first shot breaks and
look at how high his muzzle is
my guess is that bullet went off into
the wild blue yonder so then that shot
breaks and notice what it does to his
hand is that that hand then comes that
support hand really comes off the gun
because he doesn't he has a hard time
getting a very good grip on the gun
because that's
that strong side thumb is down now he is
shooting very fast guys he is shooting
like .15 splits
like rocket ship splits and that's not
really helping him any here
so he's about the same distance that's
seven or eight hundredths but the other
part here that i want to pay attention
to is this is why i really recommend red
dot sights for everybody because
my guess is he's shooting so fast here
and he is focused on his
front sight because he's a iron sighted
shooter so he's not seeing what the bad
guy's doing
he is just going to work on his site so
that's what we're starting to see here
in these shots
is the guy is going down now i'm going
to give him these ones half second
splits those kind of things you know
half second
before but he's paying attention to his
front sight and not what the bad guy's
doing and that is making him continue to
run
shots and run them hard and that's
understandable because he's been taught
and the right thing to do
is to pull his vision back to his front
sight have a hard front sight focus when
it's time to shoot
that's all well and good except for it
takes our eyes
off of the bad guy takes our eyes off of
what he's doing in order to see our
front sight
whereas if you are running a red dot
sight the bad guy is your front sight so
you always maintain focus on him and
what he's doing
for when you're shooting and it leads to
officers firing fewer rounds
and making sure that those rounds hit
and so that's why i really think all
officers and really private citizens of
carry firearm as well should really
consider transitioning to a red dot if
at
all possible because it helps us make
shots and not come to a place where
we're firing beyond
when we really want to be these officers
though i mean obviously took this guy
out and they needed to do that this guy
was a scumbag in every way threatening
people with a shotgun and those kinds of
things
so they did the right thing here totally
justified action let's learn the lessons
here about gripping the handgun siding
the handgun
triggering the handgun well as we seek
to cover our asp