Body Cam Shows How Little Time Officer Has to React | Active Self Protection
One of the biggest benefits of body cam videos like this one is that they show us how fast real encounters happen. This perp was obviously disturbed and the officer had very little time to react when the threat got right on him. Many lessons here!
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Raw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwbVhDmN5ZU
Raw of the mobile footage at the end: https://get-asp.com/dnf4
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DA press conference discussing the particulars: https://get-asp.com/g8l1
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