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ELB wrote:

Beiruty wrote:

Paladin wrote:Personally I would have gone for the disarm in the first officer's situation, but to be confident of a disarm does require proper disarm training.

On Auto-pilot mode, your "inner-brain" would take over. Survivalism mode is ON.

That's why you train. You can train your "inner brain", but it takes time and work.

Sweat saves blood

Paladin wrote:Personally I would have gone for the disarm in the first officer's situation, but to be confident of a disarm does require proper disarm training.

On Auto-pilot mode, your "inner-brain" would take over. Survivalism mode is ON.

I agree, In the first example, the highest priority was to get out of the X AND disarm the bad guy and/or hold the Pistol Muzzle and pointed away from you. The police tried to push forward, he should have kept with his strategy and ram the bad guy and turn behind him and try to disarm him.
In the second example, the shot was way too close. The hostage could have been shot in the face. However, the strategy worked, distract, draw, and return fire.

That being said, in the first example, the adrenaline dump was high that the LEO has narrowed tunnel vision and "less time to think".
Oh, it is not graphic.... no gore, no blood, and it is a grainy video.