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I've sped up the initial part of this
just for the sake of time but if you go
watch the original and I really would
recommend that you do it's about 9
minutes long and officer Ruby comes up
and he talks to this man because he
knows this guy has a warrant he knows
he's gonna have to hook him up on that
warrant but he's kind of cooling his
jets and just chilling because he
doesn't want to get in a fight with this
guy so he's been very kind asking him
where he's from asking him what's going
on and where he's staying and those kind
of things and he's waiting for backup
he's asked for backup knows this guy's
got a warrant so he's just biding his
time now it's going to run out
eventually and the officer is going to
have to act because what's going to
happen is this is a consensual encounter
at the beginning and the suspect here is
going to eventually want to ride off and
so what's gonna happen is officer Ruby's
gonna have to go before his partner gets
there the audio here I think is pretty
important so let's listen in on what
happened then we'll come back and talk
about more lessons
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I'm sorry all right
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like to know where weapons are
you're usually pretty chill but some
people are sassy I try to ask everybody
keep it consistent I don't want to treat
people differently get on the ground get
on the ground you got a warrant you got
a warrant get on the ground get on the
ground just start trying to get on the
ground you're under arrest you have a
warrant you got a warrant
stop if you know what the hell are you
doing man 40 we're fighting get on the
ground get on the ground get on the
ground get on that round just turn the
tap don't do that get on the ground
go check you do on the ground look down
you're gonna get spray if you don't come
around right now you understand me
get on the ground right now
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therefore not on it ah drop tonight stop
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where you hit jiffy de Rover I want you
to get my bike to Flagstaff PD is who
blurred all of this out what you can see
now is officer Ruby's gonna get this guy
into custody get the cuffs on him and
then start emergency medical aid and
with the help of the other officer who
got there just after the encounter was
over they're gonna render medical aid to
him this suspect is currently in the
hospital awaiting you no arraignment on
charges and being treated he was shot in
the neck and officer Ruby was treated
for some minor irritation from the
pepper spray and he was fine and that is
where this one ends there's a lot to
talk about in this one but in an overall
sense I think this officer did a pretty
incredible job in the entire conflict I
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self-protection out of today's video I
want to think about using verbal judo I
want to think about the critical
importance of empty handed skills and I
want to think about how fast you have to
make a decision in using deadly force
there really is so much to think about
here as I've sped it up again in the
beginning and the first thing I really
want to talk about is verbal judo and I
think officer Ruby did a really
excellent job at this here he just
maintains chill you know he doesn't
escalate immediately with the guy he
knows he's gonna have to hook him up for
a warrant but he's trying to keep things
cool so he's small talking with him he
did ask if he did have any other weapons
on him seized the knife on his bike
whatever but notice he doesn't say hey I
want to take those or whatever again
this is at this time as far as the
suspect knows a consensual encounter so
he's just chillin I can't go watch the
original here laughter talking to him
about this guy's bike and where he stand
and what's going on in his were
and those kind of things because he's
trying to stall for his partner to get
there because he wants to get this guy
in custody without any problems and I
think that's really exemplary to use
that kind of verbal judo verbal judo can
keep you out of fights but it doesn't
always work you know and especially in
an officer's incident now he has to hook
this guy up so when the guy says okay
I'm leaving it's time to go well he
thinks it's in the consensual order but
now officer Ruby says nope you're coming
with me man you've got a warrant out for
your arrest so you're under arrest at
that point he puts hands on him because
he is under arrest he is being detained
he is in police custody so he goes hands
on
that's exemplary as well he's going to
end up having to fight this guy empty
handed skills are important particularly
important for my law enforcement viewers
because you've got to be able to fight
because these guys can come back around
and hurt you in big ways I think
important for non-sworn as well but for
different reasons now guys going to go
ahead and be resistive of this and what
you see there's officer Ruby try to get
him down a little bit harder to keep a
person who doesn't want to be taken down
down against their will then you think
if you think it's easy you ought to hit
the mats a little bit and try to do it
yourself when somebody is non-compliant
they can it you know from a standing
position resist being taken down pretty
well for quite some time especially
within the bounds of police SOPs now
notice what he's got there I just want
you to see this face I've stopped it
here because I want you to see what this
officer is thinking about in the moment
that this guy is not just resisting he
is actively and aggressively resisting
notice he's got a balled up fist notice
he's yelling he's like hey man let me go
what are you doing and that's of course
not okay the officer has informed him
that he's under arrest he's informed him
that he has a warrant he's told him to
get on the ground he's told him that
he's going to take him into custody now
this guy is actively fighting and
balling up his fists so what we see
officer Ruby do here is escalate okay I
don't want to get into a big knock-down
drag-out with the guy so he's gonna get
out his pepper spray and I think that's
very very wise as well to long distance
I poked and it can gain compliance so
you see in the bottom right side their
doctor has his pepper spray out he says
hey man I'm gonna pepper-spray you now I
think as an officer I get it they have
to warn or those kind of things I think
for non-sworn
if somebody needs to be pepper sprayed
just pepper spray him you don't have to
warn him that you're gonna spray him
just do it but an officer that's a
different story he's using it to gain
compliance and so he warns him get on
the ground or I'm gonna hit you with the
OC spray now there's a couple brands OC
I gotta be honest with you that are so
filthy and nasty I would never want to
be pepper sprayed again I think
everybody that carries one should and if
you're around it you should but uses it
now he threatens with it but he doesn't
wait forever what I really like here's
an officer ruby gives him one chance he
says hey get on the ground do you
understand me however what I notice here
notice the furtive glance notice that
our suspect is not looking at his threat
not looking at the officer but he looks
away it's looking for escape routes here
he is not planning on complying he is
planning on resisting further looking
for a way to get away looking for
accomplices looking for witnesses so you
gotta watch those furtive gestures by
bad guys even in the middle of fights
because they can tell you what's going
on now notice just a couple seconds
later he says no if you're not gonna
listen he sprays him now you don't have
to hose somebody down and get them all
wet just a quick spray across the bridge
in the nose you know ear to ear yeah or
we jokingly say to bless the deserving
with the hot sauce so you make the sign
of the Cross over and left to right or
right to left top to bottom bottom to
top and you're good to go doesn't take
much but he doesn't give him 15 warnings
I'm gonna spray I'm gonna spray I'm
gonna spray I'm gonna spray no he just
says at one time do you understand and
sprays him good now you got to recognize
that can take the starch out of somebody
but it may not end the threat
immediately in that long range I poke
can take a little time course is
non-sworn you want to get the heck away
from the guy but this is a law
enforcement encounter he wants to stay
with him he's got to take him into
custody
difference between officer-involved
fights and civilians now think about
this he can't see the guy's hand notice
here that that what we see is we see
officer ruby looking over his left
trying to see what's going on in that
guy's hands savvy move here because the
guy's hiding his hands and the eyes may
be the windows to the soul but the hands
are the windows to the intent you've got
to see what's going on with the hands
and this guy's fishing around in his
pocket now officer ruby knows he has
knives on him the guy has told him that
he has knives on him he's resisting
arrest and he's been pepper sprayed and
is non-compliant so that is why officer
Ruby draws the firearm this is a classic
escalation of force now of course you
might say well wait a minute why did he
draw the gun on him again this guy is
under arrest
actively resisting has said that he has
knives on him and he's fishing in a
pocket given all of that totality of
circumstances probably officer Ruby
could have shot him right here and it
would have been a justified shooting
however I do want to also note that you
to be able to shoot one-handed this is
an interesting incident where
marksmanship is very important and
having the ability to use the gun
one-handed is important here because his
other hand is engaged and that's an
important additional lesson for all of
us you could be engaged
maybe not holding a guy bay but for a
host of other reasons so knowing how to
use that gun with one hand very very
important now he says drop that knife
now you and I get the vantage point here
just from the left you know this badge
camp looks like it's mounted to the
officers hat or even to his sunglasses
so it's just to the left of the officers
actual line of sight and my guess is as
most people that this officers right I
dominate so we are seeing a slightly
different perspective than the on the
badge can then the officers seeing with
his eyes and if you noticed the guy he
knows the guy has knives on him he does
not know that the guy has a pepper spray
on him even so so he's saying drop that
knife get that knife out of your hand he
didn't have to give him that warning
given what was going on he is ready to
use deadly force and justified to do so
an officer in the performance of their
duties
man you pepper spray an officer you
taser a cop you're going to get shot
every single time don't do it because
you're gonna get shot every time now
dude hits him with the pepper spray
pretty quick and so now it's kind of
tit-for-tat and he gets shot doing it
now I will say this if you notice the
one thing I'm gonna give officer Ruby a
little bit of hard time for I totally
understand that he pulls in with his
left hand sticks the gun out with his
right hand and presses a shot off I get
that that's kind of a normal natural
reaction but it wasn't the best idea
here because I put the gun in a place
for the bad guy could have gotten a hold
of it and it's in a less advantageous
position instead know how to fire that
gun from a compressed ready position
even better maybe in this instance from
a pectoral index or from a vest index
something like that where you have the
gun closed held because you're not going
to miss from those kind of distances and
that doesn't float the gun out there
when you float the gun out there it can
get fouled on any number of things so
that's one kind of issue once again I'm
not the one who you know put the blur
over this that's the police department
that did that but you can't see the gun
is floating out there the other thing
that I do want to say here is at the OC
spray while it was effective it did
diminish the bad guy it didn't
completely end the fight you got to
recognize what an OC spray is what it
can do and what it is good for there
limitations to our non-lethal tools
where our less lethal tools that you
have to be cognizant of an officer ruby
was here that's why he went to the gun
when it was the right time once again
you pay you pepper spray cop you're
gonna get shot because the officer can
you no absolutely rightly say hey wait a
minute he's doing that he's diminishing
me in those cases notice that the
officer was still able to go and he was
still able to fight through even the
effects of the pepper spray pepper
sprays chief ingredient is fear and pain
and at once you know how to really fight
through it you can teach yourself to
fight through it fairly effectively it
is a reason that I recommend that people
if at all possible get an exposure so
you understand what it will do to you
and then that way it's not a surprise to
you the first time it happens finally
the other officer shows up they get this
guy in custody and then use exemplary
effort and not just waiting for the
paramedics but actually getting some
first aid on this guy and I think that's
really exemplary from officer Ruby's
perspective as well you notice his
intent wasn't to harm this guy wasn't to
kill this guy tried to talk him into
cops and wait for him then he tried to
get him into cuffs with just physical
force then he tried to use the chemical
spray then he finally used the firearm
when the guy definitely threatened him
with what I am sure he thought was a
knife not the pepper spray however I
think it's even better that afterwards
even fighting the effects of OC spray
himself his primary concern was to get a
chest seal on this guy go watch the the
longer original you can see all that and
all the first-aid equipment that they
put on him and get the bleeding stopped
and get this guy to hospital to save his
life so there's another lesson there for
us to keep our medical equipment on us
as a non-sworn we probably won't use
that with somebody who just meant us
deadly harm because we'll break contact
but for my officer friends I think
that's excellent as well so this is how
fast things go down man from that the
verbal stuff to the physical to some
tools to deadly force this is also why
we need to have training in all these
areas particularly for my law
enforcement Watchers
but let's recognize as non-sworn as well
I think it's very very good for us to
see what it's like in the shoes of an
officer so that we can respect and
appreciate what they do call out good
actors when they act well and help those
who are not to get the heck off the
force
I think officer Ruby did a fantastic job
here and I think that he is an example
what is right with law enforcement today
in America he did a fantastic job of
covering his ass
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