Police Shootings, and what we can learn.

[teratos]

Many of you know much of this already. It may be somewhat disturbing for some to watch, but I think it’s very important to know what to expect if, God forbid, you ever need to fire a gun in self defense. There is a channel on YouTube that compiles police involved shootings. This is not a channel that criticizes police, and no opinion is presented. Just body cam footage. All of the shootings appear to be justified. It’s eye-opening how much time people have to retaliate after they have been shot multiple times. It’s something to consider. I hope you find this useful. I feel badly for the officers. Some literally beg the perps to comply.

https://youtube.com/@policeshootingcompilation

 

[Mule]

Thank you for sharing.

 

[hillbilly grandpa]

Sobering Images. Thanks for sharing.

 

[teratos]

Sobering Images. Thanks for sharing.

Sobering indeed. I don’t ever want to be in that position, but my desire to go home at the end of the day is much stronger. People need to know what they are up against.

 

[JohnnyE]

Law-abiding folk, like us here, should note that it does not matter why there is a gun in our hand when approached by an officer, when says drop it, you may only have moments to do so.

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

This presents itself as very sad.

 

[teratos]

This presents itself as very sad.

It is very sad narrative of the human condition.

 

[Stoveman]

Disturbing how many of those were clearly suicide by cop.

 

[DanGuy48]

Says I have to “sign in”…

 

[teratos]

Says I have to “sign in”…

Probably because of the nature of the content. It is quite graphic

 

[Mr. Ed]

I imagine one mistake a regular citizen might make is to assume that the bad guy is rational. Seems like in a lot of these situations the perps are either drugged up or mentally incapacitated. No way many of them are going to be able to understand or comply with rational commands.

Also, in a lot of these videos there are multiple LEOs giving contradictory commands. Might be better if the commands are only given by one LEO.

 

[FrankZ]

Also, in a lot of these videos there are multiple LEOs giving contradictory commands. Might be better if the commands are only given by one LEO.

Maybe they if they had a chain of command to decide who gave the commands.

 

[Blaster229]

I imagine one mistake a regular citizen might make is to assume that the bad guy is rational. Seems like in a lot of these situations the perps are either drugged up or mentally incapacitated. No way many of them are going to be able to understand or comply with rational commands.

Also, in a lot of these videos there are multiple LEOs giving contradictory commands. Might be better if the commands are only given by one LEO.

"DON'T MOVE!!!!! PUT YOUR HANDS UP!!!!!" Wait, I have to move to put my hands up.

The one thing wrong with police training, are the commands. It's typically taught to start shouting commands out to bring attention to the threat you are facing in order for people to witness the actions. " Oh yeah, I saw and heard the cop shout before the bad guy ran at him.". Now multiply that by the number of cops there. Cops need/should try to affect an arrest when possible.

Fortunately for citizens, we don't need a threat to be able to rationalize anything. We just need to know what our deadly force threat "Go to" action is before we use lethal force. Nothing else matters.

 

[RRomig]

I’ve been on the wrong side of a police barrel a couple times. One cop was definitely dumping way more adrenaline than I was. Just using some common or maybe uncommon sense and I was fine. If you’re holding a gun , knife etc. with police drawing down on you do you really need to hear drop the weapon or are you smart enough to make yourself a non threat. Notice none of the people I saw were perfectly still and unarmed. Pretty simple to drop weapon and freeze. Police Training could always be better but that’s not going to stop idiots from getting shot.

 

[clandestine]

Its my opinion that people who disobey police commands at gunpoint are processing how to flee, or how to attack the officer/s.

 

[wpage]

Common sense when dealing with cops is best bet. Put yourself in LEO position today. No one signs on to die on the job...

 

[JohnnyE]

This murder still infuriates me.

 

[linkstate]

I would also submit that “drop the weapon” should register as anything in your hands including a cell phone, wallet, etc. Thinking “it’s not a weapon” and holding it up for the officer to see probably won’t end well either. You can get a new phone.

 

[RRomig]

This murder still infuriates me.

I’m assuming you have seen the full video. I can’t say what happened. The video froze right before things went bad. Is there a full video? Was he armed? Why were the police arresting them, what was the call?
Thanks

 

[teratos]

I would also submit that “drop the weapon” should register as anything in your hands including a cell phone, wallet, etc. Thinking “it’s not a weapon” and holding it up for the officer to see probably won’t end well either. You can get a new phone.

Definitely.

"amygdala hijack" is some interesting reading.