Thanks for the professional training info. Great insight.Someone else asked if LE gets training dealing with handicap subjects as well.
Answer for my Agency is no and to be honest, Ive never really gone over this scenario in my head before.
Possible that we don’t get training in this by design; use of force is the same.
Another thing this video brings to light is dealing with a seated subject. We are trained to shoot to stop the threat of death or imminent life threatening injury to self or others.
This is typically judged when a standing or advancing subject hits the ground. With a seated subject, that’s going to be a little different.
I know I would’ve been wondering if he was actually handicapped as 9/10 street people I see are faking it. Just saw one today actually.
Some comments were made RE clubbing him in the head or some other mode of force. We get run through many scenarios RE folks with knives and it’s a deadly force encounter, end of story. We just got shown a video of a female officer tazing a subject that was advancing with a knife. He fought through it and got his hands on her and was slashing her. Second officer used his service weapon but he was lucky not to have hit her in my opinion.
The wheelchair def throws a curveball into it.
We also get drilled on how much trouble we can get in if we strike a subject in the head with the baton; only authorized in a deadly force encounter. Absolutely are not trained to grab a 2x4 from the lumber dept and smoke the guy with it or anything.
The one thing they appeared to have was a lot of time. Could they have used a service vehicle to pin the wheelchair? I don’t know. If he gets hurt, you’re in trouble. You might be able to get away with it if ramming him occurred right at the moment where injury/death was imminent to self or others as ramming people is deadly force as well.
Now I’m going to be going over how to handle a bum in a wheelchair with a knife at every stoplight.
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