on today's badge cam we get to see an
officer absolutely handle his business
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hi friends welcome to today's bonus
batch cam lesson here at active self
protection with me as always our co-host
mike willover and i'm your host john
korea and today's video comes to us from
akron ohio the mantis x-10 firearms
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defensive firearms officers have been
called here you can see in the top right
corner it's like four o'clock in the
morning because this woman's ex-husband
she has an order protection against him
he found out that her boyfriend was over
he got mad and who knows substance you
know involved or whatever and she called
911 because he's threatening them with a
knife and let's listen into the batch
camps that's him kicking down okay we
got going hey the door
go go
slow down slow
down just broke down the bedroom door
he's in the room
let's leave
what
watch out
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according to the news story the perp did
not make it on this one uh the other
family members including the woman were
not badly injured boy there's a couple
of good lessons to think about here i
want to encourage all of our law
enforcement viewers to go over to our
second channel active self protection
extra i know that you're not getting
enough in-service training i guarantee
it so let us help you with drills every
week mindset stuff great encouragement
and tips on how you can be better as a
self-defender too john the only thing in
order of protection no matter where you
are in the country the only thing it's
good for
is to provide probable cause or
reasonable suspicion for the police to
come and arrest someone who's violated
it other than that it provides you with
zero protection as as always when when
you need the cops there they're there as
fast as they can be there but they can't
be there fast enough to rescue you
normally
in this case we're dealing with a
domestic
order protection domestic disputes one
of the most dangerous calls you can go
on and now the order protection has
served to do little else then upset this
guy and maybe even spur him into action
to come over and do what he's about to
do
just recognize that the order of
protection while it has its place is not
a magic shield it is not going to
necessarily keep a determined attacker
it certainly won't keep a determined
attacker away and it won't even
necessarily keep a non-determined
attacker away who wants to see if they
can push the limits a little bit so
don't expect that to protect you
secondarily for officers recognize when
you come to a domestic you are coming to
the most dangerous call that you will go
to on the rig and i get it everybody
working night shift knows that the
domestic violence calls are coming that
that you're gonna end up in people's
homes this is where again sometimes your
de-escalation training and realistic
de-escalation strategies are super
important but you've got to know like
these guys did when it's time to flip
the switch and it is go time
you know when and when they go in here
you see they they move as quickly as
they possibly can but like in any
situation they're going into a house
that's unfamiliar a layout that's
unfamiliar people who are unfamiliar
this place is a mess it looks like a
tweak or crash pad so there's just stuff
everywhere there's a lot of variables
that go into it but they get in there
and they get to work as quickly as they
can be expected to get to work
i really like mike that they really
communicated well here on me stay with
me slow down so that they communicated
well with each other and i love that
they use hallelujah they use their
pistol mounted lights here effectively
and well well done officers using your
tools that are available absolutely nice
nice bright lights too by the way so we
come around the corner now we see this
guy who's this guy we don't know i don't
know that they know who the offender is
but this guy's pretty pretty quickly
realized okay he's not our bad guy he's
pointing
where is this guy now we got a closed
door dude closed doors as we've seen
before in the channel are so dangerous
so at some point you hear the screaming
you got to kick it in which is what they
did and now we're playing a little game
of push me pull you with this guy behind
the door and as you can see you can't
really identify what we're looking at
there's no visible weapons is there
somebody else in the room so for those
who would say why didn't he just shoot
him right here well because he can't
legally he can't he can't justify a shot
in this moment
well and you don't want it to be the
wrong person you don't know who else is
in that room so not only if it was the
right person is it you know legally
going to be very suspect but but from
the perspective of the officer you don't
want to make a mistake and use deadly
force unnecessarily and wrongly you'd
hate to shoot a victim in this
particular case you wouldn't be able to
live with yourself so this is why again
i do love the bright pistol mounted
light and the reason i do is that
officer now has total dominance over
what's going on here because he can see
everything on that guy but i guarantee
you you put a big bright high candela
light on somebody like this they're
going to have a heck of a hard time
identifying from you so that gives you
an advantage now they do get this door
kicked in this is a typical cheapy you
know
hollow core interior door and so they
finally get that sucker in there and
this is what we get to see in that case
now the officer goes and tries the taser
what do you think of the taser try here
mike i'm not a big fan although you know
we know how this ends so it does look
like the taser gave the guy a little bit
of a how you doing enough to get his
attention and maybe distract him from
what he was trying to do maybe trying to
stab her
ordinarily going up against a person
holding a hostage with a knife tasers
not even on the table for me but you
know that's what he had in his hand as
you said he he did deploy the taser it
did appear to have a little bit of
effect but like you said
look at the scene they're presented with
this is absolute chaos you've got the
woman screaming got the guy screaming
you have the pitbull with somebody else
in the room we don't know who that is by
the way holding the pit bull back the
pit bulls barking this is utter
chaos and these guys kept their cool and
went to work and did what they had to do
i really think these akron officers
handled themselves in an admirable way
they made good decisions under this kind
of chaos at four o'clock in the morning
to preserve life and and i think they
really deserve to be committed for that
because this is very difficult now of
course the officer sees that the taser
had a little effect but the guy still
got the knife in his hand so he comes
over here and absolutely puts one in
this guy and i gotta tell you i think
this is a hundred percent justifiable
given that the guy still had the knife
in his hand hadn't dropped that knife
was still a deadly threat to everybody
around and because the taser didn't work
which i i honestly with the amount of
clothes that the guy had on i wouldn't
necessarily expect it to work because of
the limitations right and in its use
case taser is always effective but you
use it outside of its use case it's not
going to be effective i think he had to
step in and definitively handle that
threat and so stepping around it to a
head shot was the right answer and not
for nothing but um it's 4am and these
people are up doing what they're doing i
think we can probably infer there are
some illicit substances being ingested
the type that keep you up all night so
on someone like that with baggy clothing
i think a taser is kind of a kind of a
non-starter and yeah this guy could have
ended the threat at any moment he could
have
dropped the knife to the floor and
thrown his hands in the air and he would
still be with us today walking talking
and uh you know and and getting into all
sorts of high jinks but unfortunately uh
he like you say the perp has a vote the
perp didn't drop the knife he didn't
stop his aggressive action so they did
what they had to do and getting in there
and getting a close shot is appropriate
in a situation like this you don't want
to hit the hostage obviously
obviously you don't want to and you
don't want to hit the bystander as well
so i really want to just stop one more
second and recognize that i think these
akron officers handled their business
very well i think they're using their
pistol mounted lights well which we see
very seldom on the channel good and
effective use of pistol mounted lights
and these guys really did i think we see
here good decision making under
incredible stress i think that they got
the right guy and didn't get anybody
else i would definitely say these
officers covered their asp