In this video, Personal Defense Network’s Rob Pincus dissects a particularly heartbreaking law-enforcement bodycam video–and we’ll warn you, although it’s not graphic, it’s definitely tough to watch. What makes this so tragic is that, as Pincus demonstrates, neither the armed homeowner who was shot by the officer nor the officer himself did anything wrong legally, morally, or ethically. But as unpleasant as it is to think about this event, which happened earlier this year in Aurora, Colo., it’s still got a number of lessons that we, as armed defenders, should internalize. The armed defender, a hero veteran who can actually be heard on the video saving his grandchild’s life, could just as easily be any one of us defending our families. That’s why it’s so critical that we pay attention to what was going on from the officer’s perspective so we can take away lessons of our own about how to interact with law enforcement as legally armed citizens.
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If you carry a firearm and happen to be a First Responder (even in your own home) to a crime it is incumbent upon YOU to have a well-rehearsed plan of what to do when the Law Enforcement Officers arrive on the scene. How will you SAFELY transition control quickly to the Officers? You better not try to do that with a firearm in your hand.
I disagree with your assessment near the end (16;35) that the officer and/or the man should have asked/said who else was in the house. At that point, shots had not been fired and the man had no way of knowing if it was the good guy that shot or was shot by the intruder when they did hear the two shots. It would have been distracting to interview and react to shots later. The guy should have said his relative and a stranger were still in there but that wouldn’t have helped enough to make a difference.
Never heard the officer tell him he was the police ?
Great explanation, especially with the first “gentleman” exiting the residence.
what is bothersome tome is that today,, our “law officers” have no problem shooting first , and asking and lying about it later in cover ups. proper training of officers should be a must. All the training we can get for protecting our homes and family will not stop gun happy officers .
He needs to, “set the stage”!
Proper and truly instructiomal method in this case would have been to SHOW the video first, THEN talk, THEN re-play portions of the video as he discusses the video, then using the video for a teaching tool AFTER the audience fully grasps the video he is TALKING about.
Too much talking and no video and peoe leave the room.