Florida shootout video released

[trob]

Trob,

I didn't realize you were perfect and never made any mistakes. Are you familiar with "tunnel vision?" Are you even an LEO, or just an "awesome dude" who does everything right?

If you were an LEO, you would be familiar with the concept of "I don't know. I wasn't there." We don't judge our brothers and sisters from a couple of minutes of a stationary camera. I can't see, smell, hear, or feel what's going on off camera.

I am a LEO. It looked like it was a good start by blocking his car, but they didn't even look at the car as they casually walked past it. Control, restrain, search....

We all make mistakes, i wasnt crucifying them. But, its going to be a helpful video to learn from their mistakes.

[navin r]

Thanks for posting, I hope the LEO makes a quick recovery. It was interesting to me that on the first vid the bad guy starts shooting about 1:00, it looks like he's hit in the body at least once, then receives a head shot at about 1:30, and at about 3:00 is still moving his legs and arms around; what the h*** do you have to do to make sure a guy is out of the fight?

[1CavScout]

^^^I think he was out of the fight after the head shot. My partner shot a guy in the 10 ring, and he was done even though he moved around for a minute or two. The guy died while we attempted CPR, but he was really done as soon as he took the round in the chest.

I agree with the poster that brought up tunnel vision on the subject near the door. You can't walk past cars like that without clearing them, but we have all made mistakes in the heat of the moment.

[zombiescanlearn]

why would you draw on three officers unless it was your intent on ending up being dead. Not the sharpest tool in the shed. Hope all the officers recover nicely. that was stressful to watch!

[Warhawk014]

that was rather hard to watch. tunnel vision is very hard to overcome in situations like this. good to hear the officer shot did recover.