An Eaton County, Michigan Sheriff's Deputy demonstrated the importance of the Tueller drill in a rather dramatic fashion.
Knife attacks happen fast, as this scenario demonstrates.
She also demonstrated how to coolly and quickly clear a failure while being charged at by a multiple blade-wielding attacker. She also demonstrates that you need to keep shooting until the attack ceases, as one-shot stops are nice, but certainly not guarranteed against a motivated attacker, and in this case he took a lot of hits and was still talking at the end of the encounter.
While you may argue she let the attacker get too close before she started shooting, that encounter happened fast, and was still very good shooting and reflexes on her part. Next time someone ignorantly asks why the police can't just shoot an attacker in the leg, show them this video and ask them if they think they could do any better under the circumstances.
I'd say an excellent job on the part of this deputy, and lots can be learned from the video of this encounter.
5 comments:
When he said, "Ow." I thought that was a bit of an understatement.
Good malfunction clearing!
Tueller drill in real life.
Officer, why did you shoot at him 14 times?
Because I didn't have any more rounds.
Good job backing away and shooting, too.
Good work on the deputy's part under extreme stress.
I'm waiting for his mother/sister/spouse to come out and say was turning his life around and was an aspiring rap/country/rock artist and that the deputy didn't really need to shoot him. Also, per Sleepy Joe, he was an "unarmed knife wielding" person and should have only been shot in the leg, if at all.
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