I may be late to this party, since the story broke several days ago, but I think this video is worth covering to highlight all the things the Allen PD officer (whose name, as far as I can tell, hasn’t been released yet) did right.
He instructed others to get to safety before moving to engage the shooter.
He paused to get a better weapon out of his car and take a moment to assess the situation.
He maintained constant communication with the dispatcher to let other officers know where he was all the time to reduce the possibility of friendly fire.
He constantly moved toward the sound of gunfire to engage the target.
He maintained solid trigger discipline throughout running to contact.
He engaged the shooter from behind cover, and continued controlled fire until putting him down.
As far as things to be improved on, he did slow noticeably while moving toward contact, so maybe better cardio is in order. But I’m hardly one to cast aspersions here…
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10 Responses to “Bodycam Footage of Cop Taking Down Active Shooter”
the responding police officers are heroes. The world needs more like them. I wonder how much of the cardio problem was the officer’s body being apprehensive about running into danger.
“I wonder how much of the cardio problem was the officer’s body being apprehensive about running into danger.”
Any sane person would be apprehensive about running into danger. As the saying goes, “Courage isn’t not being afraid. It’s being afraid and going in anyway.”
well,, yeah. stress has a lot to do with it. you can be as fit as anyone, but in times like that your heart rate will go thru the roof.
although he does sound like he needs to do more cardio.
Adrenaline does weird things. You can train and train and train, and then when the moment comes, the sheer shock of it all actually happening drives the training straight out of your mind and body.
Then, too… You get guys who’re so exhausted, burnt-out, and adrenalized that it’s like when a skunk has exhausted their scent glands. They’re standing there in the midst of utter horror and chaos, and they can’t even respond to it rationally any more, which then leads to some really amazing acts of what others see as “bravery” and “courage”. The reality is that they’re so far gone that they just don’t care, can’t react emotionally, and just become completely incapable of emotion, shock, or much of anything besides acting.
I will testify to the reality of this… I’ve had more than a few guys who’ve told me that their citations for valor really ought to have been referrals for mental health help, because they’d been so far gone at the time of their “valor” that it was better described as “flat affect”, in that they were incapable of fear or much of anything else at all.
You would be surprised at the number of “heroes” who regard their acts as being entirely out of character and entirely performed in a state of temporary insanity. I had to walk one guy through what he’d done after the fact for the paperwork, and he wound up vomiting when he saw what he’d actually done on the ground where he did it… He’d had a severe fear of heights before the incident, and being shown where he’d gone to get at the kid he rescued, he lost his sh*t. At the time of, he’d had no idea at all what he was really doing.
Cardio is one thing, running in body armor, full gear, and boots with a massive adrenaline dump is an order of magnitude different. And since it became apparent, he didn’t know how far he would end up going or where the suspect was, slowing was prudent to conserve energy and to not blunder into the suspect.
My one critique was that he was well into the hunt before he remembered to power up his optic.
On the whole he did really well. We can all hope to do so good under the circumstance.
“Yay for all fat middle aged men. They literally make our world work.”
If certain wealthy amateur playboys that didn’t study deep-sea engineering but did stay at a Holiday Inn last night had recognized this axiom, 4 wealthy thrill-seeking amateurs might still be alive.
And as soon as the world is made to run by a “diverse” set, the rest of the world will have surgical, nuclear and strategic consequences just like that submarine. Standards are white supremacy, you see.
The future world will be one imploding sub equivalence after another from now on. We’re going to see nuclear accidents, great big chemical explosions, doctors hacking off wrong limbs, planes flying into buildings by *accident* and idiot presidents galore now.
Thank God my doctor is young enough to be with me through my life and old enough not to have been “educated” past America’s 2015 sanity cutoff. I wouldn’t trust a young doctor now if I had to sew my OWN hand back on. The dead from diversity is just beginning.
the responding police officers are heroes. The world needs more like them. I wonder how much of the cardio problem was the officer’s body being apprehensive about running into danger.
“I wonder how much of the cardio problem was the officer’s body being apprehensive about running into danger.”
Any sane person would be apprehensive about running into danger. As the saying goes, “Courage isn’t not being afraid. It’s being afraid and going in anyway.”
well,, yeah. stress has a lot to do with it. you can be as fit as anyone, but in times like that your heart rate will go thru the roof.
although he does sound like he needs to do more cardio.
Adrenaline does weird things. You can train and train and train, and then when the moment comes, the sheer shock of it all actually happening drives the training straight out of your mind and body.
Then, too… You get guys who’re so exhausted, burnt-out, and adrenalized that it’s like when a skunk has exhausted their scent glands. They’re standing there in the midst of utter horror and chaos, and they can’t even respond to it rationally any more, which then leads to some really amazing acts of what others see as “bravery” and “courage”. The reality is that they’re so far gone that they just don’t care, can’t react emotionally, and just become completely incapable of emotion, shock, or much of anything besides acting.
I will testify to the reality of this… I’ve had more than a few guys who’ve told me that their citations for valor really ought to have been referrals for mental health help, because they’d been so far gone at the time of their “valor” that it was better described as “flat affect”, in that they were incapable of fear or much of anything else at all.
You would be surprised at the number of “heroes” who regard their acts as being entirely out of character and entirely performed in a state of temporary insanity. I had to walk one guy through what he’d done after the fact for the paperwork, and he wound up vomiting when he saw what he’d actually done on the ground where he did it… He’d had a severe fear of heights before the incident, and being shown where he’d gone to get at the kid he rescued, he lost his sh*t. At the time of, he’d had no idea at all what he was really doing.
Well done.
Well done. One for the good guys.
Cardio is one thing, running in body armor, full gear, and boots with a massive adrenaline dump is an order of magnitude different. And since it became apparent, he didn’t know how far he would end up going or where the suspect was, slowing was prudent to conserve energy and to not blunder into the suspect.
My one critique was that he was well into the hunt before he remembered to power up his optic.
On the whole he did really well. We can all hope to do so good under the circumstance.
“On the whole he did really well. We can all hope to do so good under the circumstance.”
Well? He did fantastically! He was fat old fart who ran like Peter Griffin and took out an active shooter like a pro.
Yay for all fat middle aged men. They literally make our world work.
“Yay for all fat middle aged men. They literally make our world work.”
If certain wealthy amateur playboys that didn’t study deep-sea engineering but did stay at a Holiday Inn last night had recognized this axiom, 4 wealthy thrill-seeking amateurs might still be alive.
And as soon as the world is made to run by a “diverse” set, the rest of the world will have surgical, nuclear and strategic consequences just like that submarine. Standards are white supremacy, you see.
The future world will be one imploding sub equivalence after another from now on. We’re going to see nuclear accidents, great big chemical explosions, doctors hacking off wrong limbs, planes flying into buildings by *accident* and idiot presidents galore now.
Thank God my doctor is young enough to be with me through my life and old enough not to have been “educated” past America’s 2015 sanity cutoff. I wouldn’t trust a young doctor now if I had to sew my OWN hand back on. The dead from diversity is just beginning.