Does anybody know if the officers body cam video has been released yet.
As a LEO I have been assaulted by nearly naked assailants never a fully naked one but ones just down to their underwear.
Normally those people are very intoxicated on some serious drugs they were in my cases. They tend to be very pain resistant. Back when these assaults happened the drug normally was PCP.
Now days the drugs seem to evolved to be just as or more dangerous to the user. The reason they get naked is the their body is over heating and shutting down causing them to strip off their clothes trying to cool down.
They can not be reason with, they can be very violent, they can be very dangerous, even if not armed. If you have never been assaulted by some truly trying to beat the Sh!t out of you, you mostly well not understand.
Or if you never seen someone killed or seriously hurt by some one just using their hands and feet, you most likely well not understand how dangerous it is to take kicks and punches.
I seen and investigated people who were murdered by single punches, let alone those who ended up hospitalized with serious injuries.
It is not TV where people take many serious hits and keep fighting, most street fights are won by the person who lands the first good solid hit.
These people who are high can take blows and keep on coming that would lay low someone who was not under the influence.
We did not have tasers back then or OC, what I would have given to have that option. Might have save those attackers from being hurt.
I fully credit not getting severely injured in those assaults to being in top physical shape and highly trained.
If I had not been running 10 K in under 36 minutes doing a hundred pushups, sit-ups practicing by defensive skills daily.
I could very well have been killed or seriously injured by those attackers that were intent on doing me seriously harm.
Most officers today have no life experience in the fighting they are not in great shape. In a lot of departments they are no longer well trained with or have no access to batons.
I was highly trained with my PR24 and consider it one of the most effective impact weapon that a LEO can carry to defend themselves with.
I was able to use it to great effectiveness to keep from being too seriously injured and hurt by those attackers .
I came very close to shooting one unarmed assailant that I did everything short of shooting him to stop the assault.
If a by stander had not jumped on his back to help me, most likely with in 30 seconds I would had to have shot him to stop him.
This was after several minutes of him assaulting me. I was able defend him off with my baton but barely, he took many full power strikes to what are considered not vital areas.
I was down to using a strike to a vital area and could be consider deadly force, he took that blow dropped to the ground jumped back up and continued his assault on me.
That is when the by stander jumped on his back and took him down and I jumped on him and got him hand cuffed.
We were laying on him to keep him from getting up with him still kicking and trying to head butt us after a minute or so I very glad to hear the sirens of my back up coming.
The whole assault lasted most likely lasted at the most 5 minutes seemed like a lot longer.
Again if I hadn't been in the very good shape with highly developed defensive skills I most likely would have shot him.
I could very well see why some officers could very well be justified in doing so.
Side note I saw him several years later he thank me for not shooting him. At that time he told be he had been sober for several years and was a born again Christian.
