when the moment comes where you have to
defend your life you want all of your
pistol manipulation and use skills to be
at the level of unconscious competence
welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's educational lesson
is an officer-involved incident that
comes to us out of New Orleans Louisiana
in the United States today's video is
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you can see here that the perp is
actually committing aggravated assault
waving a gun around and if you notice
it's 10:24 on the time stamp here what's
gonna happen is he's finally gonna leave
after threatening this person police are
gonna finally find this guy about 50
minutes later in his apartment complex
we have bad audio from here so let's
listen in and see what's going on
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hold the hello there / didn't make it on
this one and officers were uninjured and
that is where this one ends so much for
us to think of here in tons of lessons
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defender out of today's video there is
so much to talk about among them though
I want to talk about the importance of
using cover and concealment about
marksmanship and why it's King and why
you got to know how to clear a
malfunction out of your gun boy there is
literally so much for us to talk about
here first of all that you are your own
agent in self-defense notice that he is
committing aggravated assault here
waving a gun around at somebody and
threatening them with that and it's 50
minutes later when the cops find him so
guess what they can
I'll protect you in that moment you are
gonna have to protect you now when
officers find him you can actually hear
him say go ahead and shoot me shoot me
so this is a suicide-by-cop for sure
bunch of stuff we want to think about
here that I am you know just super
grateful for these officers they showed
incredible restraint maybe even too much
here so first thing I want to talk about
is the fact that the officer here
stepping out of the car could have shot
this guy right now he's waving a gun
around suspect in an aggravated assault
has a gun out officer definitely should
have his gun up and on this guy but he's
trying to get to a better position and
get himself to a place of cover and
concealment I totally get that and the
guy is again trying to get him to shoot
him so you're gonna try to do everything
you can to prevent that from happening
as an officer and officers do that kind
of thing every day
so getting to a better place issuing
some commands may be a very very good
thing here however notice as soon as he
gets that gun up he is absolutely a
deadly threat you've got to assume that
he is ready to use it and use your own
to protect yourself now you're thinking
about where that is you can see the
officer on the right hand side has a
shot there that is about four parking
spaces away he's about 13 yards away
that's a pretty good shot if he's ready
to take it the other officer didn't have
his gun up so he wasn't ready to take it
now what we see here first shot by the
bad guy this bad guy now is going after
these guys and they got to be ready to
defend their life a couple things on
this one
marksmanship matters notice how far this
is we're gonna talk about backstop in a
minute but the first officer here if you
look at the parking spots he's about two
parking spots and a half away from the
guy if the average parking spot is eight
to eight and a half feet this guy is
right now around 21 22 feet from the
first officer the closest one seven
yards the other officer about ten yards
away at this point
these are marksmanship problems you've
got to be able to hit what you aim at
next thing I want to pay attention to is
you can see the glass breaking out here
is the officer strafing to his left
trying to get shots on this guy who is
shooting at him notice the FIPS a factor
not sure if he hit him there if it's
fibs or fibs up but notice that that
bullets had to go through two pieces of
glass for law enforcement officers
I really think intermediate barrier
penetration is important to their self
defense and is important to their duty
firearms so that's why they start using
those criteria and the FBI calls for
ammo and as a non someone we don't so
much now you notice here whole bunch of
bullets flying everywhere
an awful lot of bullets going down into
the ground now this guy has gone down on
this grass but I do want to notice the
fact that they are putting a lot of
rounds down in front of him couple
things with that number one marksmanship
is King guys you got to be able to keep
that firearm secure grip the gun sight
the gun trigger the gun got lessons on
that on extra make sure that you go
watch those so if you're hitting your
target and not missing your target low
if he's bad enough to shoot out you need
to put that bullet in him but if you're
gonna miss in this instance better to
miss low then miss over the top of him
where there's a backstop problem with
civilians around and those kind of
things now they got to follow up with
this guy after he's gone down get that
gun out of his hand make sure that they
are safe thankfully they did enough and
the guy you know isn't gonna create
anymore problems for them or anyone else
now let's start looking at the badge
cams lot to think about here that number
one this is the farther officer at first
notice the shop that he has right here
very very difficult shot for him to take
as the bullets start I want you to see
us he's shooting notice the guy is
moving from the officers right to his
left so this is not your typical square
range problem here he's not just
shooting at a stationary target and also
notice his back stop his back stop is a
fellow officer or very very near to a
fellow officer which is why we say
marksmanship so important in the real
world that 360 degree range you're very
seldom gonna have an easy or complete
backstop so the only safe backstop is in
the bad guy and shooting that guy
effectively on the move like that very
difficult problem indeed the officers
did enough there to do that let's think
about the next badge cam here he's got a
lot on his plate
as he sees the guy with a gun and now
he's gonna go for some cover because the
guy is looking at him right and he's
like hey man go ahead and shoot me shoot
me shoot me so listen he takes some some
concealment behind the pickup truck bet
recognize that's what it is it's
concealment not cover maybe you can say
the fact that the axle is cover or
whatever but a bullets gonna go right
through both sides of that bed and right
just in there on him so you've got to be
ready in that instance to move and to
recognize that that's not gonna stop a
bullet but it may keep him from shooting
at you didn't in this case and
thankfully would save the officers of
bad marksmanship on the bad guy now
notice he's going left and shooting
through the car but it has that same
problem there where he has to see
effectively
and use his cover and concealment well
now notice he's out and now he starts
his reload let's start talking about
reload stuff I don't see this with
non-sworn very often so it's not a big
problem for them however I do see on
duty law enforcement officers have to
reload all the time so they should
really be able to do that well and
you've got to let that magazine drop
free notice he's using his hand to strip
that magazine now that Glock that he's
carrying should drop free no problem he
should already be getting his second
magazine and getting it up to the gun
while that magazine is dropping free him
using his other hand here takes time
thankfully had a partner in the fight
but won't always do that next comes up
there you notice he had a hard time to
go watch the other angle he actually
reached across himself to go get that
magazine so he didn't really have a good
grip on that magazine you really should
have the index finger of your support
hand all the way up on the first bullet
in that magazine and that gun should be
tilted towards that so you can get that
in there quickly and so we say those
things that you got to practice an
efficient and effective reload because
you want to do that quickly because the
guns not in the fight right now which
means you're not in the fight get it
done quickly he finally does is able to
get the magazine in the gun get it going
and get back on the target but by that
point notice that the threat is down so
this ended up being an administrative
action the faster you can get your gun
back in the fight the more likely it is
that you can be effective and actually
affect things rather than just watching
the end of the fight happen when bad
things can be happening to your partners
so knowing how to reload effectively and
efficiently incredibly important
thankfully they did enough because they
work together as a team there was enough
of them that the guy really had no
chance against them alright let's look
at the next officer here this one's
pretty important first of all I want to
pay attention to his back stop is this
officer comes up sees the threat as well
notice that the first officer is over
here he's part of the backstop they got
the other officer bracketing the guy on
the other side and that means not only
are they your backstop but you are their
backstop so learning how to get off line
and get out of their way again them out
of your way is one of the reasons that
we talk about being able to move and
move quickly and get to a better spot
where your backstop and you're not the
backstop is incredibly important now I
really do want to pay attention to what
goes down with this officer here first
time I've seen a type 3 malfunction
caught on camera on a badge cam like
this so his gun is out of the
do you notice that his slide is locked
halfway back he has what we call a
double feet or a type 3 malfunction now
normally what we do in these instances
is first of all we do a non diagnostic
linear malfunction clearance that's what
most people call a tap rack reassess so
he's gonna tap the baseplate and which
is what he should do he goes oh no I got
a bad gun now he looks down and sees it
oh no what is going on here now I don't
recommend in our training regimen that
you formally you normally look and see
what's going on guns not going you got
to click when you wanted a bang if you
want to tap great a lot of times I don't
think the tap is very necessary but
whatever tap rack and see what the heck
is going on there don't spend the time
looking and going oh no my gun didn't
work you know it didn't work
you wanted recoil and you didn't get it
you already know something's wrong so
here's what he's gonna do cuz the guy's
still in the fight he has to get to a
better spot recognize the time that you
spend now trying to figure out oh no
what do I do is time that that guy can
do deadly harm to you because notice he
still has a gun in his hand you need to
get your gun back in the fight as fast
as possible non-diagnostic clearance to
tap that baseplate run that slide see if
that solves a problem it will most of
the time he didn't tap the baseplate I'm
totally ok with that but he starts with
racking the slide okay in most failures
to fire or most failures to have a you
know an ejection you had some kind of
problem in the gun running the slide
will get a new round in the chamber and
solve most every problem you have okay
great but he didn't and so he runs the
slide again unnecessary you already knew
the first time that it didn't do what
you wanted it to do because you didn't
feel the gun go back in now you got to
start your next one you're just wasting
time at this point just why you got to
know how to do that now you notice what
he does here he drops that magazine out
he did not lock the slide to the rear
and actually I think that's the right
choice if you go on extra I have another
video about clearing this malfunction a
little bit faster because somebody's
trying to kill you and it involves just
leaving the slide where it isn't ripping
that magazine all the way out of the gun
because taking the time to lock the
slide back and then doing that is again
more time where somebody can do you or
yours deadly harm so he presses the
button rips that magazine clear watch
what it does soon as he does that and
rips that magazine clear you're gonna
see slide goes forward okay fine
whatever problem well there was in the
gun because he's ripped that magazine
all the way out of the gun it will fall
out the bottom whatever was going on in
the chamber is over now now I'm not
saying that the gun is loaded and ready
to rock but it is ready to be brought
back into a condition so just put the
mag back in it and run the slide now the
officer doesn't do that here instead he
runs the slide several times with his
magazine in his hand that's more the
classic way that they talk about
clearing the double feet that you want
to run the slide several times however
is going to be very difficult for him to
see if he's done any good and whatever
condition it was in it's gonna get put
back in that good condition when you put
the magazine in it so don't waste time
doing this he finally gets the magazine
firmly seated back in the gun great now
you've got to load the gun because you
know that there's nothing there so now
he's gonna go ahead and turn that gun
over get it loaded get it back in the
fight so I think if you go and watch
that video on a faster way to get a type
three malfunction cleared would have
saved him a couple of seconds here now
of course the other partners had done
enough so it wasn't a fight stopping
problem for him in this moment but we
see with both of these officers here the
importance of being able to reload the
firearm and the importance of being able
to clear malfunctions without really
having to think about it thankfully
these officers did enough they work
together enough as a team they got out
of there without getting harmed and that
was good enough to cover their ass
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