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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Bad Guy Calls Cop's Bluff
The fantasy: A gun solves every self defense situation.
The reality: You can only use a gun if there is "justified use of deadly force".
Every scumbag criminal knows this and will not think twice about resisting or evading when guns are drawn.
In this video the cop pulls his firearm in hopes to scare the shit out of the bad guy. Bad guy knows the cop won't shoot. Bad guy resists and attacks the cop. Now the gun is a deadly liability. This cop is lucky that the criminal only wanted to distract him to escape and not put a severe hurting on him.
In a perfect world, if you resist with any use of force, the officer should have the right to shoot you. Hey, where I come from if the police tell you to freeze, you freeze. The poor cop is actually fighting the guy with one hand while he tries to holster his weapon.
It was later reported that the bad guy had a box cutter and some other paraphernalia, but nothing that couldn't be explained as a "tool" by even the worst public defender.
The department later said the the officer "acted correctly". In my opinion, the officer may have "acted correctly" but is a hell of a lot more lucky than good. This officer is lucky that this guy just didn't beat the living shit out of him, which he is probably regretting right now and the next time he's backed up against the wall, he's going to be damn sure he gets away.
Police Policy and use of force laws have literally sterilized law enforcement. The training and tactics taught are all but useless in the real world. A cops only chance is if he gets an instructor who has been in the real world and teaches "off the book." Seriously, if the officer in this situation did something that would render the bad guy unconscious from the get go, he would have been safe, the store manager would have been safe and the bad guy would have woken up in custody.
This is why the GUARDIAN DEFENSIVE TACTICS POLICE COMBATIVES has become so popular over the past year. Simply because it puts the good guys first and the scumbags second.
I'll say it again, this cop is lucky.
There is a full report on the incident HERE
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3 comments:
First, the cop walked away, so hats off. Second, it is easy to second guess a situation from a nice warm room with a keyboard and no bad guys.
That being said, the cop should not have pulled his gun. The taser would have been a better choice.
If he did choose to go the gun route, he should have stepped backwards and drew. Then order the guy to the ground. As close as he was to the guy, he is lucky the retained the gun.
Nice analysis.
Hope to see some more in the future
I totally agree with Mark. From my point of view the police officer was a complete idiot. He pulled his gun and used it really badly. The bad guy could have disarmed him with ease. A taser gun is much better but even then there are rules that have to be respected. Even so, that police officer needs more real life fighting training.
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