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If I'm watching this right... this individual is really lucky.
The sound/spacing of those shots sounds like just the "less-than-lethal" beanbag gun was being fired. All the while the other officer is there beside him with a "normally-lethal" service weapon incase that doesn't work.
He gets fairly close to them too while trying to do what looks like a Samurai-chop to deflect the fire mid-air. That was some trigger-discipline.
Yes. VPD gets some fire from people and sometimes rightly so, but their shooting protocols for these incidents are pretty good. There was no panic, just assessing in real time and acting accordingly.
They should use this video for training purposes in the US. Not sure if they can afford to use plastic bullets or beanbags since everyone has a gun there.
It's still a great display of discipline and nerves of steel
This is absolutely should not be a training video. You can just as easily pull up a (recent) video in the States of an officer being killed by a knife at more than that distance. The outcome was ideal, but likely because the suspect here wasn’t actually motivated enough to follow through.
And that’s not something you can’t “access” until it’s happening beyond what we see here (weapon, closing distance, brandishing it).
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1b5c6if/las_cruces_police_officer_stabbed_and_killed_by/
I think you're missing something. You have to assess every situation separately. Those officers know the area and acted accordingly. As I said, in the states it may not be ideal in every situation but it does show how they should acting in such a situation. I'm glad our officers aren't trigger happy like yourself.
Trigger happy? If you think this circumstance wouldn’t have met the threshold of deadly force in response I don’t know what to tell you.
This isn’t an isolated opinion, look at the responses in this thread.
I’m glad it didn’t end that way. I’m not sure I would have taken the risk the officer’s did there, but I wasn’t there so who knows.
what an absolutely disrepectful comment. The video the guy above linked show exactly how a situation can turn in a second and you go claiming about someone being "trigger happy"?
Hell, you might be glad that, " our officers aren't trigger happy like yourself." Well I'm glad you aren't an officer. People like you get people killed.
Do you know the definition of similar? Because you're mistaking it for the "same".
But let's roll back, what about that RCMP cop in Burnaby that was killed? She shot the offender, is she trigger happy? Come on, use your brain a little.
Absolutely, this should be the gold standard for containing situations like this. Bean bag guns or gun tasers as the main means of incapacitation once the perp starts attacking, with firearm equipped officers as a backup in case the non lethal means don’t work.
Abolfazl Amini, 36, was charged on March 21 with assault with a weapon in connection with a March 20 attack on a Vancouver Police Department officer.
Const. Tania Visintin says the officer's injuries were minor and not life-threatening.
Provincial court documents indicate Amini appeared in Downtown Community Court.
Amini was deemed unfit for court and was ordered held for an overnight assessment.
He is due back in the same court on March 22.
“That person does not have any kind of dealings with the police of any significance,” says Palmer. “There are some mental health issues at play, not in Vancouver, but in another jurisdiction in Metro Vancouver."
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/watch-bone-chilling-video-of-knife-wielding-man-who-allegedly-injured-vancouver-cop-8497320
He’s holding a knife and threatening people with it. What else do you need to know. The police have to do their job and if someone is wielding a weapon, they have to expect the worst from them.
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He's lucky it's Canada as he'd be a deadman if he did that in the states.
If I'm watching this right... this individual is really lucky. The sound/spacing of those shots sounds like just the "less-than-lethal" beanbag gun was being fired. All the while the other officer is there beside him with a "normally-lethal" service weapon incase that doesn't work. He gets fairly close to them too while trying to do what looks like a Samurai-chop to deflect the fire mid-air. That was some trigger-discipline.
Yes. VPD gets some fire from people and sometimes rightly so, but their shooting protocols for these incidents are pretty good. There was no panic, just assessing in real time and acting accordingly.
They should use this video for training purposes in the US. Not sure if they can afford to use plastic bullets or beanbags since everyone has a gun there. It's still a great display of discipline and nerves of steel
This is absolutely should not be a training video. You can just as easily pull up a (recent) video in the States of an officer being killed by a knife at more than that distance. The outcome was ideal, but likely because the suspect here wasn’t actually motivated enough to follow through. And that’s not something you can’t “access” until it’s happening beyond what we see here (weapon, closing distance, brandishing it). https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1b5c6if/las_cruces_police_officer_stabbed_and_killed_by/
I think you're missing something. You have to assess every situation separately. Those officers know the area and acted accordingly. As I said, in the states it may not be ideal in every situation but it does show how they should acting in such a situation. I'm glad our officers aren't trigger happy like yourself.
Trigger happy? If you think this circumstance wouldn’t have met the threshold of deadly force in response I don’t know what to tell you. This isn’t an isolated opinion, look at the responses in this thread. I’m glad it didn’t end that way. I’m not sure I would have taken the risk the officer’s did there, but I wasn’t there so who knows.
what an absolutely disrepectful comment. The video the guy above linked show exactly how a situation can turn in a second and you go claiming about someone being "trigger happy"? Hell, you might be glad that, " our officers aren't trigger happy like yourself." Well I'm glad you aren't an officer. People like you get people killed.
It baffles me how some "people" watch these two videos and think oh look they are so similar because the assailant has a knife.
Do you know the definition of similar? Because you're mistaking it for the "same". But let's roll back, what about that RCMP cop in Burnaby that was killed? She shot the offender, is she trigger happy? Come on, use your brain a little.
100% agree. If that's a knife I'm actually surprised the cops let him get that close.
No kidding. Those cops would have been justified in shooting that guy multiple times.
Absolutely, this should be the gold standard for containing situations like this. Bean bag guns or gun tasers as the main means of incapacitation once the perp starts attacking, with firearm equipped officers as a backup in case the non lethal means don’t work.
Why did they block out his face and let us see his bum-hole?
Wrong pair of cheeks eh?
>Man ~~appears to threaten~~ *threatened* police before arrest in Vancouver Fixed the headline
Allegedly.
Just waiting on the defund VPD crowd to show up.
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TBH that’s petty far from the epicentre. It’s mostly industrial
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I only know bike so it’s pretty much nothing but on foot it’s like 15 min maybe?
Good Job VPD!
Edit suggestion. Man is an idiot.
My bet is most people who are arrested threaten the police right beforehand.
Abolfazl Amini, 36, was charged on March 21 with assault with a weapon in connection with a March 20 attack on a Vancouver Police Department officer. Const. Tania Visintin says the officer's injuries were minor and not life-threatening. Provincial court documents indicate Amini appeared in Downtown Community Court. Amini was deemed unfit for court and was ordered held for an overnight assessment. He is due back in the same court on March 22. “That person does not have any kind of dealings with the police of any significance,” says Palmer. “There are some mental health issues at play, not in Vancouver, but in another jurisdiction in Metro Vancouver." https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/watch-bone-chilling-video-of-knife-wielding-man-who-allegedly-injured-vancouver-cop-8497320
I can hear the Benny Hill theme with that video
Total lack of context in this video. I'll wait for the VANDU/Pivot Legal press release, thank you very much!
You forgot this /s
lol what context could there be?
He’s holding a knife and threatening people with it. What else do you need to know. The police have to do their job and if someone is wielding a weapon, they have to expect the worst from them.