when it comes time to act the three
biggest things we see again and again
that matter are speed surprise and
violence of action welcome to today's
active self-protection lesson I'm your
host John Correa today's video comes to
us out of Provo Utah
in the United States and it shows us an
officer-involved incident that ends in
an unexpected way
we have audio from the badge cam on this
one so let's listen in and then we'll
finish up and then learn some lessons
we're just looking for a guy that had a
grey shirt but he had something else on
the front so thanks how you doing man
hey somebody called and said they were
worried about you said you were asking
for water or something
are you doing okay sorry hey don't touch
dude get on the ground
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thanks guys if you watch it again
they're gonna grab him take him down the
officers gonna take him into custody and
that's where this one ends boy a pretty
great job by those bystanders to handle
this guy get him on the ground and help
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support out of today's video I want to
think about stepping into a third party
encounter I also particularly in that
want to think about helping an officer
in need and third I want to think about
the importance of ground fighting skills
so officers have been called to do a
welfare check here that's why they're
checking on this guy go check the news
stories there's a lot here there's a
bunch that you got to pay attention to
catch as to why this officer decided to
initiate a contact biggest thing here is
you notice the guy what he just did is
he put his hat his hand up to his head
in the shape of a gun and like pulled
the trigger and went boom like this so
in other words he made a motion like he
wanted to get shot and of course an
officer who's coming into these kind of
situations and saying hey we have an
emotionally disturbed person or somebody
who needs to be checked on those are the
kind of cues that he's gonna look out
and go whoa man something's got to get
changed here cuz I don't want that to
happen to this guy then the guy goes for
the officer's gun and that's why we see
the officer put his left hand out here
and try to stop the guy cuz the guy goes
and makes a motion towards the officers
right hip which is where his gun is so
when you ask the question wait a minute
why did the officer decide to go
hands-on with this guy it's always a
totality of the circumstances and
sometimes when we're watching a badge
camp things happen so quickly that if we
don't have time to slow everything down
and really pay attention go read the
news stories see what happened then
sometimes we can go wait a minute that
didn't seem very reasonable but now that
we stopped that we recognize it is quite
reasonable and that's why he said hey
wait a minute now I got to go and get
this guy now let's think about this here
as you might say well why didn't he just
take him down well this is why a
significant empty handed skill set is
incredibly important but I will say this
anybody who says well why didn't he just
take him down has
really tried to take down somebody who
is non-compliant and does not want to be
taken down a one-on-one fight I don't
really care unless you have a really
significant size advantage if you don't
have that man it is much harder than you
think it is especially against somebody
who is not thinking clearly that's the
case here it can be very difficult so
the officer tries to take him down very
difficult to do and you're gonna see the
guy here take a swing at the officer you
can see his right shoulder up takes a
swing at the officer and again now we
have a significant physical
confrontation here so having us a robust
empty handed skill set understanding
that in grappling in a real environment
in a weaponized environment in a public
environment involve strikes as well your
training needs to involve understanding
standing grappling and grounded skills
while in a striking environment now I
want you to notice that the guy is
running off but notice in the top-left
corner that one of the bystanders has
jumped out of the truck and that that
was the guys in the truck that he was
first talking to when the officer was
trying to figure out who was going on
here and that dude has jumped out of the
car and looks like he's heading towards
the officers now let's think about it
stepping into a third party encounter
here I generally recommend caution when
stepping into third party encounters
because it can be very difficult to
understand who's doing what what's going
on and it can be difficult to ascertain
how much danger it puts you in however
that being said generally speaking I
would recommend you know if an officer
needs help to ask the officer if he
needs help and it's pretty easy to see
ah-ha wait a minute an officer
struggling with a guy it's better for
everybody to get him in custody so I get
it in that case you know you see this
guy here he has come
around his car and I was chasing that
guy down number one dude's got some
burners right he's gonna chase this guy
down number two though I do want you to
be careful if you're going to step in to
help an officer and I think that's a
moral good that you identify yourself to
the officer if possible in the moment
specifically and emphatically if you're
armed if it's a deadly thing or whatever
if you have the opportunity officer I
have a firearm do you need some help can
I help you or whatever is important can
keep the officer from shooting you not
an issue here but one I wanted to
address and now you're gonna see this
guy get after it and another bystander
is gonna step in and grab ahold of the
guy and they're gonna be able to take
this guy down now of course if you're
going to step into these kind of
you better have the tools to enable you
to do so the empty-handed skills maybe
some less lethal tools and also
recognize that it can escalate in a
hurry somebody getting away from the
cops they can turn their eye on you in a
hurry as well so you want to make sure
that you have checked those in in your
own line and make these decisions ahead
of time so you're not trying to do the
calculus while the events going on
notice as well here that the guy who
actually took him down pretty good
grounding technique here notice he got
his uh you know arms pinned got him up
off the ground turned his legs over and
then dumped him on the ground that's
indicative to me dude knows how to take
somebody down and had the place to do it
cuz he was able to get him from behind
finally you asked the question when I
talk about this all the time you say
wait a minute why would I help an
officer you don't know who's in the
right some people will say that I would
generally say this number one a police
officer in the performance of their
duties best thing to do is help them get
somebody in custody if possible even if
it's not a valid arrest which I would
say is incredibly rare even if it's not
it's not going to end well for somebody
who is actively resisting a law
enforcement officer and the best thing
even if it's not good is to get them in
custody and then let the lawyers figure
it out because otherwise they will have
a much higher chance of getting hurt or
things escalating somebody getting shot
something like that so I think these
bystanders did an admirable job
I think the officer did an admirable job
as well I think having the robust skill
set understanding how to take somebody
down as difficult as that can be
understanding how to fight from those
positions are important things to cover
your ass
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