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by Keith B
Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:41 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Alamo Heights: Officer fatally shoots student
Replies: 40
Views: 13612

Re: Alamo Heights: Officer fatally shoots student

rbwhatever1 wrote:
Keith B wrote:An officer can bounce around a lot if they work as a reserve for various agencies before getting hired permanently by a department.

As for shooting and radioing, I had a speaker microphone in one had, gun in the other while wrestling a subject to the ground when I was a LEO. It wasn't graceful by either of us, but I did get backup radioed for and incapacitated the subject. Luckily I didn't have to shoot him.

Well. You did a fine job since you didn't accidentally shoot anyone, including yourself!
I'm not so graceful. I once had a flight instructor tell me "fly the radio crash the plane or crash the radio fly the plane". I was apparently focusing too much on the radio and not enough on the landing I was about to make going into Nashville.
I was lucky in the fact I accomplished what I did. Learning to kick someone's feet out from under them payed off in that case.
by Keith B
Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:15 am
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Alamo Heights: Officer fatally shoots student
Replies: 40
Views: 13612

Re: Alamo Heights: Officer fatally shoots student

tbrown wrote:
Keith B wrote:I had a speaker microphone in one had, gun in the other while wrestling a subject to the ground when I was a LEO
I hope this post isn't deleted if I observe that doesn't leave many hands free for wrestling.
You don't always need hands for wrestling. When I was in high school we had a student who had a birth defect and had a stub on one arm and only partial use of the other hand. He was one of our best wrestlers on the team.
by Keith B
Sat Dec 07, 2013 5:28 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Alamo Heights: Officer fatally shoots student
Replies: 40
Views: 13612

Re: Alamo Heights: Officer fatally shoots student

An officer can bounce around a lot if they work as a reserve for various agencies before getting hired permanently by a department.

As for shooting and radioing, I had a speaker microphone in one had, gun in the other while wrestling a subject to the ground when I was a LEO. It wasn't graceful by either of us, but I did get backup radioed for and incapacitated the subject. Luckily I didn't have to shoot him.

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