as a law enforcement officer you have to
be prepared for your tool not to be
effective in the moment welcome to
today's bonus active self-protection
badge cam lesson I'm your host John
Correa today's officer-involved incident
is actually a dash cam comes out of
Davenport Iowa in the United States
after thorough testing I recently
changed my everyday OC spray to Palm
personal defense spray it's nasty stuff
and I recommend it highly to go read the
news story linked into the description
the officer is driving over this bridge
looking for a suspect in a an assault
case that has just happened he has good
evidence that the suspect is walking
across this bridge from the other side
we do have audio of the interaction here
so we are going to listen in and then we
will come back and think about lessons
not over the rail
come on over the rail
do it now good now get down on your
knees do it now
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I'm detective giggly with these boy okay
let's go ahead sir
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are you okay which lady back put your
hands behind your back now shop yes
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what we couldn't really see off-camera
is that this guy was really pounding the
head of this officer into the pavement
officer was able to draw his firearm put
accurate shots on the guy the guy who
responded here who was standing next to
the officer who was assaulted
it's actually from a different
department but he wasn't involved he
just happened to be a bystander at the
moment he was able to come to the
officers aid the perp did not make it he
took the asphalt temperature challenged
right there and that is where this one
ends great heart difficult situation for
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would you lots of lessons here for
officers and some prefer private
citizens too so the officers heading to
this call just sped it up for the sake
of time here and recognize that you have
to have the mindset that says I want to
stay calm I want to stay in control but
at the same time if I'm going towards
where there is danger may be using some
combat breathing staying in control
making yourself a plan so that you're
mentally prepared for the mindset shift
that I need to take this guy into
custody but he may fight me okay so
we're gonna slow it down here officer
shows up
taser in hand and is that a reasonable
response I think it is a reasonable
response and the reason that I think it
is is again this guy is a suspect in an
assault that just recently happened so
we know that there is a higher than
normal probability that this could end
in physical violence because this guy
has been violence so staging your tools
and all those things are definitely an
okay thing but I do want you to
recognize what we see on the channel is
what they see in statistics all over the
place taser is not a panacea it fails
all the time so it can give you an
opportunity and certainly I wouldn't
recommend it against a deadly threat but
a physical threat like this here might
be a good option and opportunity now
notice he points tasered it's a guy it
doesn't really faze him any and you got
to be ready for your commands to be
ignored and for your force options and
your tools not to really be effective at
a threat he may just go what go ahead
shoot me whatever and you got to be
ready to move on to something else
now then he asked the guy to step over I
think that was actually pretty good
because
is the officer a little bit more space
right so he's like hey wait I'm gonna
get in front of this guy or whatever and
I'm gonna pull him out in front of me
rather than get where he is then we have
this danger going over the railing okay
great but you better have that plan for
when he decides to be non-compliant
which is what we find here this guy's
like man what's going on whatever he
says hey man I want you to get on the
ground so I'm taking to custody the guy
says no now notice that he's backing up
into the officer here and trying to
crowd his space and that's pretty
interesting he keeps turning around on
him there but now the officer decides to
deploy his taser and what we see here is
what we see on the channel again and
again and again about 50% of the time
maybe 60% of the time the Taser fails
you got to have particular prong spread
it has to get through the clothes and
stick into the to the flesh and if you
don't have those two things
simultaneously it will not cause
neuromuscular incapacitation now when it
does it's awesome and it works really
really well
but notice here if it had been good that
guy very well could have fallen off into
the lane of traffic something to
definitely be wary of now then when it
doesn't notice the guy swats away at it
and now the physical fight is on and you
got to have a mindset shift particularly
as a law enforcement officer that you
may need to go hands-on I get it that
you carry tools like a Taser that you
carry things like an OC spray so that
you don't have to go hands-on or it
makes it easier because you don't want
to get in fights but the bad guy gets a
vote in that as well and your mindset
always has to be I need to be ready if
this guy chooses he wants to fight me to
win this fight for my life because this
guy could mean to hurt me and could mean
to keep me from going home to my family
today could mean to do deadly harm to me
and that's exactly what went down in
this officers case that guy's gonna jump
it
so you're empty-handed skills need to be
up to this your defensive tactics need
to be up to it your ability to control
now let's think about this bystander
here again he's just driving by he is a
sworn officer but he's not part of that
department and he's off duty do you get
involved well I think is a sworn law
enforcement officer that you certainly
would get involved certainly to save the
life and and to help somebody you know a
fellow officer I think there's a
non-sworn
even we got to think about would we step
in to help a law enforcement officer who
is being beat up like this I think we
should even if we're not really a big
fan of law enforcement this is better
for the purpose it keeps him from
getting shot if we can get him into
custody but this officer again if you go
read the news story just wasn't able to
get him off him in time and the officer
know who this guy was so he had to he
felt the need because he was his
consciousness was leaving him to draw
his firearm and defend himself and I
think that's reasonable in that moment
given all that we know and again read
the news story link in the description
with some of the things that we can see
here next the officer has put two shots
in this guy and I want you to notice and
pay attention to the fact that you
really can't see that from the front at
all I think that a lot of times people
get bought in from Hollywood and they
think aha fie shoot a guy a couple times
you're gonna see holes in him or they go
to the range they're used to targets and
when they put hole you know when they
shoot the target they can identify where
the holes are in the target well guess
what real clothing mains that doesn't
happen very often and you might not be
able to see blood you may not be able to
really see where you got them that's why
that's the behavior of the person who
determines whether or not you're going
to shoot so again you may not be able to
get to inspect what happened from the
outside now notice that a guy goes over
okay fine
and a couple of things as we let it play
here notice our officer is obviously his
bail is significantly wrong but he still
has a gun in his hand after going here
notice that the fellow officer is trying
to get him hey man I've got him in
control whatever he's trying to to think
about what he's doing here so one of the
things that you might need to do after
this guy's bail got wrong is he's got a
gun in his hand you know you may need to
be his friend and go over and take it
from him hey man let me have this I'm
here I'm safe you're okay let me take
this from you right now or put it away
in your holster and that's what the
other officer had to do very difficult
in the moment because again that gun
just saved his life and so the officer
is like hey man I don't want to give
this up but you got to help me do that
for your safety and for everyone else's
safety and yes they had to get this perp
into custody get some cuffs on him and
then they got to try to do some
emergency first aid again if you look
this one's an older video 11 years old
you know 11 and a half back in 2009 and
and so they don't necessarily have as
much medical equipment on them at the
time we know now law enforcement
officers usually carry trauma medical
equipment on them usually we'll try to
help a suspect if they can now finally
here what we see is we see officer kind
of get off away needs to put that gun
away and they need to put him into a
cruiser so then that way he is not you
know getting mental breakdowns and doing
those kinds of things and excited
utterances that he doesn't need so let's
make sure that we learn the lessons out
of this one it's pretty significant
right yeah I have to have that mental
mind shift you got to be
ready for that fight to go hands-on you
gotta be ready for things like your
taser to fail having some grounded
skills and knowing when to use your
firearm to defend your life very
important even though we didn't get to
see it on-screen knowing those follow-up
actions putting that gun away and
getting that perp in custody safely also
very important thankfully the officer
made it out of this one okay and made a
full recovery let's think about these as
we cover our ass