just when you thought you've seen it all
today we get to see a felon wielding
dual wielding bayonets
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this one all started with an off-duty
tucson officer who saw a guy who he knew
was wanted on felony warrants for sexual
abuse and so he called into 911
had officers you know uniformed on duty
officers respond to try to take this guy
into custody that guy then led uh those
folks on quite a chase where he went
down into one of these washes that are
very common down in tucson you can see
on the left there are these big pipes
that that keep the water from going over
the the streets and then on the right
hand side over here we can see our perp
who has been chased all over the place
by all of these officers the officer
that is we're seeing his badge cam has
finally located this dude after all this
time and that's where our action is
going to begin and as it does you see
him you know start chasing the guy well
the guy turns his way and gets shot
multiple times turn come to find out he
actually has
two
bayonets in his hands that he you know
was advancing on the officer with
officer shot him multiple times here and
uh the buffer on his badge cam doesn't
have any audio from that while he's
talking we do have a little bit here at
the end
don't move
there you can see the dual wielded
bayonets uh the officer did prevail in
this one our perp took the desert
temperature challenge
well bayonets zero firearm one we got a
lot of lessons out of this one mike
we've had some really interesting guests
on the podcast recently yeah i'm telling
you folks you got to tune in it's on
every single podcast service you've ever
heard of and the guests are getting
better we had just recently had the
brevard county sheriff's deputies we're
getting a crazy shootout check it out i
don't think anyone shows up on shift
mike and thinks you know i'm going to
chase a sex predator through the desert
and end up in a gunfight with
dual-wielding bayonets this just what
you thought you've seen everything right
we said that at the beginning
i've never encountered a suspect with a
bayonet knife sure banana no uh
definitely not two bayonets that is a
first well and so again i think one of
the big lessons for all of our law
enforcement viewers is every day you
clock in you got to be ready and sharp
and and he needed every bit of skill he
had so that means hey when it's time for
roll call get your dry fire in get get
those things in to be ready mentally and
physically with your skill set so that
you're not wondering gosh am i going to
be up to this yeah it was a close shot
as we'll see again here in a minute but
marksmanship still counts up close you
still have to be accurate because his
margin for error there was very very
slim
officers chasing the guy and and what
makes a guy like this turn towards an
officer i will never know but right here
what we can see is he literally picks
both of his bayonets up and absolutely
is charging on this officer now let's
think for a moment i mean from a legal
perspective very easily justifiable not
even a question there but now let's
think from a practical perspective what
people would call the tactical
perspective what is my big thing here i
gotta have the skill to put this threat
down yeah you need to get center of mass
hits as quickly and as many of them as
quickly as possible to incapacitate him
before he gets here because if he gets
you it's a very very bad day with those
two bayonets especially the serrated
side
you know as as as i'm watching this i'm
wondering
i feel like he had to have seen this guy
prior to this coming
i really would like and this is a
nitpick but i'd really like to see you
have a two-hand grip prior to this point
uh to be ready to to shoot if necessary
because
that guy's
a lot closer than this camera angle is
leading you to believe yeah the fisheye
lens makes him look a lot farther away
than he actually is and you've only got
split seconds to get that those hands
joined together and rock and roll and
also be prepared to get off the x keep
your hair to move laterally one way or
the other and that's one of those things
you know you if you're driving on the
freeway
if you're a good driver on the freeway
you're always kind of checking around
you left right back do i have if
something happens do i have a space to
move to to avoid the thing so hopefully
um
if that guy had made a few more feet he
would have been trained in such a way
that he would move laterally one way or
the other not stand there and get
stabbed we talked about the marksmanship
piece for a reason because what we see
here is you can just see back behind our
perp the cloud of dust that from
literally several feet away maybe three
to five feet away right now we had a
miss why well because the panic sets in
i gotta get around off but again misses
don't win gunfights at this distance
you've got to be hitting you have to be
uh there's no excuse about hitting at
this distance i understand you're geeked
up i understand your adrenaline's going
but this guy like you said about about
five to seven feet away center of mass
hit even under stress should be kind of
a kind of an automatic and and this is
the kind of stuff that you're not going
to see in your academy qualifications
this is the kind of stuff guy charging
at you with two bayonets who wants to
kill you rather than go to jail today
but you've got to be the one that is
confident enough in your skills because
literally none of his partners can come
and save him this is where this is where
i think you'll agree john force on force
training is so critically important
actually having a human person running
at you or doing whatever the thing might
be whatever the scenario might be having
another thinking breathing human
trying to actively assault you with a
you know with a rubber knife or another
uh paintball gun or whatever the case
may be getting those reps in to
inoculate yourself from that kind of
stress inoculate yourself from that kind
of violence so it isn't the first time
you've been in a situation like this
super critical i do think the officer
did a really good job here doing exactly
what you said earlier is if you noticed
on this one the guy as he starts to go
down he gets way closer to the officer
just circles right around him doesn't
back up away from him or he can keep
coming circles around him here keeps
getting hits until the guy is grounded
when is a deadly threat over with a
knife wielding threat when they are no
longer mobile when they aren't mobile
anymore they're no longer a threat if
he's a firearms wielding attacker still
a threat when he's not mobile as long as
he can pull the trigger but instead
officer here gets multiple shots in this
guy when the guy goes down officer is
not in a spot for him he stops shooting
excellent work on that and then he does
eventually get the hits he need to get
this guy down right yeah i think uh this
is kind of kind of textbook other than
not getting this two-handed grip as soon
as i would like it again a nitpick uh he
did a great job not standing on the x he
did it other than that first shot he did
a great job with his marksmanship and he
did what he had to do now if i had one
little nitpick here and it's the tiniest
little nitpick is that he's in a bad
spot here where am i going to set myself
up generally speaking if i have to stay
and cover somebody i'd recommend we
don't get near where he's looking at us
so if i can get around to where his feet
are or something like that where he
would have a very hard time you know
drawing a gun out of his pocket and
getting on me or something like that i'd
prefer that now of course the tree there
and all that stuff makes it difficult
it's got partners coming his way and he
provides cover just a tiny little
nitpick that that again nobody gets an a
plus plus
in anything because you're always going
to have little things but i think this
officer in an overall sense mike i think
he did a pretty great job he covered his
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