in moments of life and death our
officers have to make split-second
decisions to protect themselves and
their communities
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welcome to today's active
self-protection bonus badge cam lesson
i'm your host john korea the badge cams
here were actually sent to me by the
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this stop began with the car here
driving at night without its headlights
on and the officer
signaled a guy said hey turn your
headlights on whatever you know try to
signal him through the car the guy
ignored him and so the officer
instituted a traffic stop
in order to get the guy to turn his
headlights on and we have audio from
here so let's listen in
hey turn your car off for me
miss your keys
put your hands on the steering wheel you
got a gun in your pocket
huh because i just saw the butt of a gun
you got a gun in your pocket
listen to me very carefully brother
listen to me very carefully you move
your hands anywhere near that gun you're
going to get shot do you understand that
do you understand that answer the
question
can you all get your boy man my bad i'm
trying to do what's wrong with you
make sure you got no weapons on him all
right take his people
off my bad i'm sorry just relaxing
i'm sorry you made me nervous relax bro
just yeah
because you got a gun in your pocket
yeah you got a gun you probably said
nothing to me
keep your hands on the steering wheel
i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry but
and i get it but you don't put your
hands down i tell you to keep your hands
up there right
hey bro can you come around that sir and
grab a gun out of his pocket
it's not in my pocket or wherever it was
it's right there
keep your hands up bro
you don't have a cpo here you go here
a cpo server not an application these
are my stuff that i just certified and
everything is my cpl is in the in the
nail and everything
so did you learn that when you get a
stop you tell a cop you have a gun right
yeah that's all i'm saying
i'm using you you didn't say nothing bro
butt of a gun that's the first thing you
say man
that scared me so much i did not know
you step out the car
just relax backseat turn around
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no i wasn't about to shoot you but you
don't put your hand down
i'll put you in cubs until we figure out
if you guys just want to kick it all
right
you're under arrest
you're gonna go over there to that
office apart now can you grab them for
me
come on you got nothing on your brother
no no
just make sure turns out two of the
three guns they recovered from the car
were stolen
and the passengers actually copped to
owning those so the driver here got away
with no citations whatsoever
they let him go for the ccw thing the
passengers both got hooked up for
the stolen guns in their possession and
that's where this one ends boy
great stuff there by the officer man i
think this could have gone
south in a number of ways and my hope is
that videos like this show us
that yes we're in a time of civil unrest
yes we're talking about police and
public
interactions and i think those are good
but i think lessons like this remind us
that most of our police officers are
doing an incredible job
every day let's think about lessons for
both our officers and private citizens
from this one a lot of good things to
look at in this one couple things maybe
we could think about in terms of being
careful
but i notice here that first thing
officer institute's a traffic stop try
not to even stop the guy you know nobody
wants to do that right now because of
coronavirus and those things
but talking to him and one thing that i
do want to pay attention to
is we can see right here that he has
kind of snuck out way
in front of his b-pillar here so he's
talking to this guy and again
snuck out way in front of his b-pillar
when he has another officer who
is on the passenger's side as well and
that might have been the best vantage
point from where he was
but it is a more dangerous vantage point
if the guy decides to draw a gun on you
so don't forget the fact that your zones
of safety are important
and if you are doing a traffic stop make
sure that b-pillar is something that you
really think about
because if that guy had chosen to draw
that gun much harder if you're hugging
your b-pillar than if you're sitting out
here in front of the a-pillar
now again small stuff there but
important so he's talking to this guy
and he's saying hey wait a minute i
think i've seen a gun here you see the
guy look down
and talk to him about it couple things
that i want to notice on this
number one our guy has his hands on the
steering wheel that's a good thing
number two
our officer has a small handheld light
yes a handheld light absolute must for
an officer
and i you know i know a lot of officers
that use these small little pen lights
that they stick in their pocket whatever
personally i prefer a lot more lumens a
lot more candela the ability to see a
lot more
but sometimes a small light like this
just for searching and being able to
illuminate see what's going on
is a big deal and he's asking questions
here and just trying to get what's going
on with this guy now it's
going to go south in a big fat hurry
because he asks him if he has a gun
and the guy's response to that of course
is hey is there a gun i could see a gun
is to go and touch the gun
now that right there is a furtive
gesture if the officer draws a gun and
shoots him that is
going to be considered a justified
action there because he says hang on a
minute there's a gun right there
dude goes for the gun now again maybe
hugging his b-pillar would have been
better
a couple things i do want to think about
here before you ask that question
remember when you say hey what's that in
your waist or is that a gun there a lot
of times that's going to draw people's
hands to that
so you know just to touch it and show oh
this is what you're talking about
so one of the things you might do first
is reiterate i want your hands to stay
on the wheel and i want you to answer a
question
with your words and not with your hands
you're gonna leave your hands there am i
understood
yes okay is that a gun on your waist and
then you can ask that
now then he gets his gun out very very
quickly and i do want to note a couple
things here his hand is out in front of
that gun
very common thing to do here and he's
kind of floating that gun out if you're
going to keep that gun out and close i
would recommend you keep it in a thumb
pectoral index
and keep it from floating out there in
the middle of anywhere and you want to
be very cautious that you don't point
that gun
at your hand because again if that gun
has to go off it's going to go off in a
hurry
and we don't want that to happen now he
does an okay job of that here he gets
his gun out quickly in case he has to go
to work on this guy
but he doesn't shoot him and he doesn't
shoot him because he says wait a minute
i want to give this guy every chance
because the gun wasn't coming out
and he got his gun out quickly next
thing i do want to notice he does have
what looks to me to be a stream like tlr
uh high lumens light on his pistol
but notice how he has to you know
activate it with his support hand here
and i get it that he wants to use
the pistol metal at this point to get
two hands on the gun that's great
but learn how to activate that with your
trigger finger or with you know again
when you get a two-handed grip on the
gun with your support side thumb
and if that's hard for you go get
something like the filster arc switches
that make those a little bit longer so
that you can reach them and get better
control over your pistol
and the pistol mounted light on it so
you don't have to do stuff like this now
he gets all the lumens on there but i do
like that he doesn't point the gun here
unnecessarily he uses the spill from
that light
to be able to see what's going on and he
talks well
so again he uses words hey man don't
touch the gun
you know put your hands up on the
steering wheel and we got to figure out
what's going on now of course
i get it the guy this this guy says hey
man you scared the crap out of me or
whatever
and and i think that makes sense in
light of our current world but
notice how difficult this whole thing is
this guy is rolling dirty
he's rolling dirty with multiple guns
that are stolen here
and the officer did an incredible job
here of not shooting him when he
probably
could have and it would have been rule
justified but what we really saw here is
that cannes
should and must and the officer
determined in the moment that he didn't
have to shoot the guy that wasn't a must
to shoot him because it could continue
to give commands and because of that
these guys
ended up living that day so they got the
other guys out that's great they're
gonna get the gun
off this guy that's great again recover
a total of three firearms here from the
scene
and i think that the officer did a
really good job here of communicating
with his partners
hey go do this go do that i want you to
go get this whatever couple things i do
want to note here though
you notice that as he's going for the
gun this guy is getting his hands back
in there and back in the gun stuff
and that was a really dangerous time
because he could have decided to go
after it
instead and could have been dangerous so
again reiterating officer's gonna come
and get that gun off your waist i want
you to keep your hands
on the dash on the steering wheel at all
times would have been good
notice as well looks like he's carrying
in a holster this doesn't look like a
guy maybe that is doing crazy stuff
from my law enforcement friends really
bad dudes generally don't carry a gun in
a holster
so the fact that this guy was is kind of
indication that he's not causing huge
problems like that
now i think he was compliant i don't
think that what he did there reaching
for the gun or anything like that
was actually him trying to be any risk
to the officers i think he's just scared
he's responding when he says is that a
gun he goes to touch it that's a normal
human reaction
so i think the thing that i want to see
from my law enforcement uh you know
followers and our law enforcement
viewers is
to be very clear with simple positive
commands what you want him to do with
your his hands
and at all times i think it's funny that
his badge cam fell off there and he had
to put it back on which is kind of funny
but they did a good job then of getting
these guys into custody with
no one being hurt and i think incidents
like this happen again
and again and again in our nation but
they don't get any kind of social media
play because they don't generate
any kind of anger or any kind of huge
emotion or
outrage so do me a favor friends please
share this one around and say this is
the kind of stuff that happens literally
every day but it doesn't make the rounds
because it doesn't make the news
because nobody was hurt and that's what
we want to see this is the kind of
policing that we do want to see
did his best and and ended up getting
some stolen guns off the street getting
some guys hooked up
who needed to be hooked up without
anybody getting hurt good job officer of
covering your asp