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magillapad:

Yes, you are correct. If I had quickly reviewed the short dashcam, the officer's service weapon
is clearly visible on his right side. I should have seen that before commenting.

SIA

magillapd wrote:I'm glad the officer is ok, but in my opinion, he showed awful officer safety during this stop. Flashlight should never be in gun hand, when he was approaching the passenger side, he was doing so very casually. It appeared that he was completly in condition white and was suprised at what just happened.

I hope that other officers see this and learn.

The LEO had the flashlight in his right hand. If you assume that he's right-handed,
then yes, he made a mistake by having the light in his strong hand.

But about 10% of the population is left-handed, so it's possible that he had the light
in his off hand.

HIs slowness to draw and begin shooting seems to be the more definite problem here, IMHO.

SIA

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/17148539/201 ... =printable

The above is a 29 second dashcam from a Cape Coral, Florida police dashcam. The LEO pulled over the Caddy
for expired tags. He speaks with the 17 year old female driver, then goes around to the passenger side to get the
passenger's ID.

The passenger sticks a handgun out the window and fires 3 shots at point blank range. The LEO's vest catches 2 of the
rounds, but one hits him in the abdomen, just below the vest's bottom.

The officer is of course stunned by getting shot. He takes a long few seconds, then fires 7 rounds at the fleeing car.

This may or may not have been the right thing to do since there were innocent civilian cars in the line of fire.
Neither the suspect's car or any civilians were struck by the 7 rounds.

The suspects crashed the car a quarter mile from the shooting scene, and the 20 year old man was arrested for
attempted murder of a LEO.

SIA