the critical skill i hope we all get out
of these badge cam lessons is learning
how to think with a gun in our hands
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i'm john korea the founder and owner
here at active self protection thank you
for joining us
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call has gone out over dispatch active
killer at walmart distribution center
not only as a sheriff's department but
also the local pd
is responding let's listen in
get down drop your gun
get back over here now
get on your face and face me
oh
okay
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keep me keep your hands out in front of
you
one at gunpoint
don't
yep good do not move
do not move you understand me
do you have any other weapons on you i'd
like to get your medical treatment if
you can
keep your hand when you see them
do you have any firearms on you so we
can get you medical help
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they took this perp into custody uh he
was the active killer
within 16 minutes of the stopping of the
shooting he was
at the hospital but he succumbed to his
wounds so he took the asphalt
temperature challenge and no officer was
harmed in this one there was
one other private citizen who lost their
life to the active killer and that's
where this one ends
pretty incredible stuff all the way
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when that call goes out active killer
you know that it is going to ramp
emotions way
up and so what i can't say enough for my
law enforcement guys
make sure you're practicing your combat
breathing make sure you're going through
the mind of being process focused and do
your best to stay calm because if you
show up with your adrenaline through the
roof
it's not going to help your performance
so combat breathing and going through
your mind process performance seeing
your sights
pressing your trigger as you need to
when you need to love the fact that our
officer gets out with his patrol carbine
he knew what was coming so he had his
car being ready now
had he pulled the trigger on this guy
right here if he knew the fact that this
guy was
his shooter would he have been justified
the answer is absolutely this right here
is exactly how people get shot in the
back
and justifiably so now i think that this
officer went way above and beyond the
call of duty by calling out to this guy
and giving him another chance to
surrender and say hey drop the rifle or
whatever he wasn't
actively shooting in that moment but
there were shots that were being fired
so he might have been better off to
actually press the trigger now
let's pay attention here as he calls out
dude looks back on him and starts
swinging that rifle his way
is this a deadly threat unequivocally
yes so in giving him those commands the
officer did put himself
at more risk because that's going to
draw attention dude starts bringing the
firearm over to him
and that means hey wait a minute at
least he's not shooting at somebody else
now i don't know if the officer knew if
he was shooting at another cop or
shooting at a private citizen
most cops i know man they're really
incredible people and they say better
he's shooting at me than shooting at a
private citizen
now then as he comes back over we see
him here start shooting and i want you
to recognize
that our previous freeze frame was where
the officer decided to shoot it's about
a half second between them
so then that way when the guy started
shooting about a half second later he
puts rounds
on target but recognized where they had
to go they had to go through the truck
because the guy moved in that half
second
and so the the glass and the body panels
and all those things do all kinds of
crazy stuff
to rounds when they go through them they
will pass through them for sure
but it's going to do all kinds of crazy
deflection stuff so you may not get the
hit you need
now i love that our officer here comes
over and you see him
change levels notice he got down here in
a squat and came over and i think that
was really savvy and here's why
is that the bad guy knew he had to come
around that corner now we know our bad
guy's kind of out of the fight but he
doesn't know that
and so again he squats and comes over to
see him so that he's at a different
level and the fact of the matter is if
the guy
you know was still up on him or whatever
that might have given him an advantage
because the guy wasn't expecting him
to be down low but rather up high so
maybe the first round goes over his head
and he gets the drop
i think that's a pretty savvy move and
when he sees the guy there he's still
got the gun
now could he have shot him here again
absolutely he could have again
and been totally justified dude is still
holding on to the rifle
he has not surrendered he's he's hurting
for sure but he is not necessarily
out of the fight but i think our officer
shows really extreme restraint here
by giving him another opportunity to
drop the gun because it's not
actively in the fight he's wounded and
injured and we see if he gives up here
and he
actually does give up here and so i
think that that choice is borne out in
its results
but it was dangerous again this officer
is putting himself at great danger doing
that now as soon as he drops the rifle
we're in a different world we can see
both of his hands here
and now what are we gonna do we gotta
get this guy into custody he's hurt but
he's not completely out of the fight
i love the fact here that our second
officer comes in
takes an l-shaped angle on this guy
doesn't endanger his fellow officer by
you know getting into his backstop or
whatever and gets a second gun on him
and starts issuing commands now that
said what are you gonna do when the guy
just decides not to follow your commands
whether he's too injured to
or he just chooses not to now you gotta
muster up and get this guy into custody
if he won't put himself in a place where
he can get into custody
so they start issuing commands show me
your hands those kinds of things
gotta work out of your verbal loop
eventually as well and stop saying the
same thing over and over and instead say
other stuff
that will try to get this guy to do what
you say now you can see he's injured
here and he finally goes down
but i want to note that from the time
that the officer shoots for from that
time that his volley goes off until this
guy goes down
30 seconds and this is rifle fire this
is not pistol fire
so people are remarkably resilient and
even if you shoot them
with a rifle it may be up to 30 seconds
before they are out of the fight before
they lose enough blood volume
and that's a pretty significant
difference and a huge amount of time
so make sure that you stay on the gun
and i think both these officers did stay
on their gun and stay on it
very very well i love the fact that our
responding officer that we have the
badge cam says hey i need to get this
gun
out of the fight right now leaves his
buddy that is is holding on to the perp
and keeping the perpet bay and then goes
and gets to him i will give him a little
bit of a hard time here though
because if you are paying attention his
rifle is on fire he has not engaged his
safety
i want you to really work with your
patrol carbine and recognize
when i am on the site and i have chosen
to fire that
safety selector switch comes to the fire
position as soon as i am done firing and
out of my sights i i move that safety
selector to the safe position
my ar really demands that and you want
to be very cautious with that flip that
safety selector up to the safe position
because otherwise you can have a
negligent discharge and good people get
hurt and we don't want that
he did a great job though of getting
that gun out of the fight and i love
this this is just some bystanders car
and he's like well that's going to be a
storage device for the rifle right there
that's good and i think a really good
problem solving
i want to also notice here that i do see
another sheriff's deputy come in and he
is looking for additional bad guys
really smart one of the things that we
talk about always look for work and so
he's looking for work i will say though
that he is looking for work through his
optic and and i would encourage you
instead keep that
that rifle at a low ready or a high
ready look through your mark 1 mod 0
eyeball
instead of trying to look through your
optic when you're trying to scan through
your optic it really limits your ability
to see
so instead get out of your optics see
what's going on and then bring the rifle
to bear when you need it
that's the way that you do that in the
best manner without pointing a gun at
people don't need to get guns pointed at
them
and with being able to see as much as
you can now then
man these guys are really working hard
and this is a bad spot because we're
trying to get this guy into custody
we're trying to get him where we can get
him to a safe spot
and they have to be able to work and the
reason that i'm letting this play here
is i want you to notice that our officer
whose badge cam we are watching does not
have a sling on his rifle
that i can see at least it might be
bunched up at his uh you know
at the butt stock but right now he can't
sling that rifle and what he probably
needs to do is leave somebody
out there who is on the rifle and then
get this guy into custody or somebody
needs to do that so if you are going to
have a patrol rifle if it is going to be
something that is taken outside your
home it needs a sling
a sling is to a carbine as a holster is
to a pistol
and you have to keep a sling on that gun
so then that way you can
sling it instead of dropping it and then
go do the work that you need to do if
you need to have both hands available or
even one hand available sometimes
so a patrol rifle should have some kind
of optic sighting system i love that
here he's got a red dot with a magnifier
on it that's a great setup it will work
just fine
a white light a powerful white light and
a sling those are the three things that
your defensive carbine needs
and i don't see a sling on this
particular one thankfully the officers
put this threat down quickly he acted
decisively and that was incredibly
important
when the shooting was done he kept
thinking kept making steps to get safer
and the officers worked very well
together to stop this killer and cover
their asp