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so one of the issues that's going on in
the in in the police world now is
obviously the the tragedy in the school
shooting that happened in
uvalde texas so i know that there are a
lot of people who have questions about
not just what happened but also the
response from the police officers there
so if there's any questions there i'd be
more than happy to go through those and
answer some of those for you
detain them i'm not sure what that means
my uh let's see
i love the content i like the videos
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makes uh that makes sense that's that's
typically what we do what brand of
flannel is that that's such a nice
question it's uh smith thank you i'm
sure that was a a joke comment but thank
you all right um so um yeah so they
asked if i'm a police officer so a
little bit about my background i do have
15 years experience in in law
enforcement um i also have a master's
degree in criminal justice and
a
law degree as well
so that's a little bit about my
background i'm really interested in news
and politics and current events when it
comes to
exactly what police officers are going
through
so that's that's one of the interests
that i have is just trying to create
content and talk about current issues in
policing and in the the law enforcement
world um
so
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i i just like the final well thank you
my enemy i appreciate that
uh okay so here's here's a question from
america first i want to know why the
police locked the door to the shooter
where he murdered the kids while they
saved their own kids okay so that is a
really good question so the first thing
that i can say about this incident is we
don't know exactly what happened um
there's a lot of different conflicting
reports so i think for some of this it
makes the most sense to
really reserve judgment
until the end so the there has been some
reports
that the police officers went into the
school and saved their own kids and
didn't save any other kids so i know
that the police and we can get into it
but the response from police officers
was not
it seems like it was a problematic
response from police officers and that
was reported by the associated press
from the daily wire cnn fox news almost
every one of the last couple days had
that same report
but the idea that a police officer went
in
and saved their own kid in the classroom
and then left other kids in there that
doesn't make a whole lot of sense so um
i i i
obviously anything is possible
especially in the situation like this
but but until we get a little more
information i i don't think that was the
case um and also when it comes to the
door locking so some of the reports were
that when the individual went into the
school he went into the classroom and
the door to the classroom was open and
he locked the door behind him so the the
reports are that the police officers had
trouble getting into that classroom and
they needed they didn't have the proper
breaching tools and that they needed a
key from the administration in order to
get into that classroom um so it seems
like the bad guy had
not a hard time getting in but then once
the door was closed the police officers
had an issue getting in so that's what's
at least been reported by multiple news
stations when it comes to
the door locking and stuff like that um
we've heard so many
lies so far the video shows parents
begging police to go in and stop the
shooter and you've all day one woman was
handcuffed another pepper sprayed yeah
so and like i said i i think the
response
seems like it was problematic but let's
just go through a couple things like
that so if we look at it in the light
you know most favorable or or you know
not favorable to the police officers
that's what it seems like is that the
police officers were all standing
outside and they weren't doing what they
should have done from the inside which
if you're a parent that is there i can't
even imagine what that would be like but
that's a reasonable thing to think but i
think we also have to realize that at
that point once there were a lot of
police officers on scene you can imagine
a situation let's say and i'm just
making up this number let's say there
were 100 police officers there you could
see a situation where
80 or 90 police officers were trying to
engage with the bad guy and were doing
the actual work of trying to resolve the
situation and 10 or 20 police officers
were outside creating a perimeter so i
just want to put it out there that just
because
there were police officers on the
perimeter
making sure that no one else got into
the scene which is reasonable doesn't
mean that there weren't a lot of other
police officers inside so again we don't
know what happened but i at least wanted
to
put that possibility out and i'm not
trying to defend the police officers
here because again it does seem like the
response was prop uh was a problematic
response
and just a little bit more about this so
prior to columbine that happened in 1999
in littleton colorado the best practices
or the the training from police officers
and four officers was when there was an
active shooter incident that officers
don't go in right away especially if
it's only one or two officers that you
wait until there is a team of officers
and it's at that point that you would
you would go in the thinking behind it
and i'm not saying it's correct because
it's changed but the thinking at least
at the time was that
the thinking at the time
the thinking at the time
was that if you send in one police
officer
against an active shooter who might have
a high-powered weapon that that police
officer wouldn't be able to do much good
if that's the case not only would the
police officer die but they wouldn't be
any help to the the victims inside who
they actually
should be helping so the idea was to get
you know multiple officers there and
then all enter at once try to end the
threat well after columbine that that
changed and now it's essentially once
one or two officers get there and
there's gunfire you enter that's the
training
all over the country and and since 1999
i don't know of any other active shooter
training that would say
anything different um
also um so here at cop watch we have a
team that is really good at doing public
requests for records
and that's how we get a lot of the body
camera and dash cam video from all over
the country is because we have experts
who that is what they do
however as you can imagine when you're
dealing with body cams from different
states some states are better than
others
and texas unfortunately isn't great
about responding to
requests for body cameras so we do have
in a public records request from texas
like i'm sure a lot of different media
outlets do um but texas is just not one
of the states that produces things
quickly um but we do have a have a
request and to try to get as much
information out as as as possible um so
let's let's get back to the to the
questions we have someone uh integrity
farms teachers shouldn't have to be
armed just like the rest of the world
where this doesn't happen and gun laws
are in place no teachers shouldn't have
to be armed but one of the
one of the suggestions um from people
who are trying to solve this issue is
that you know we should arm teachers um
and if that were ever
and that's a debate to have i think in
between each individual community or
individual school but that would be a
situation where no one would be forced
to be armed um but you know teachers
might be able to opt in after they've
taken the proper safety classes and
concealed carry courses
let's let's see what other questions we
got
so again america first thank you so much
for the comments yes so why didn't they
engage why did they wait an hour for an
off-duty border agent to show up and
that so what you just asked that is the
question um pretty much every media
outlet or people who are interested in
exactly what happened here which is
pretty much all of us that's the
question why did they wait 40 minutes um
and i can tell you what's been reported
but obviously i can't tell you if it's
true or more important if it's
reasonable so what was reported is that
when police got there after bad guy went
into the school the rep again the report
is that the police officers two officers
got there within four minutes um the
report is that once they got in there
that they were met with gunfire and at
that point as they were taking rounds
that they called in for more backup at
that point um and that's where
it's at that point that they're saying
so from when they first got there to
when
the bad guy was
actually killed they said we've heard
anything from 40 minutes to an hour so
does that mean that
you know how long were they in the
school before they engaged with the
shooter how long were they standing at
that door not able to get in um is it
possible that they went into the school
within 10 minutes and it took 20 minutes
to open the door i mean sure or did they
wait outside for the entire hour so
these are the questions that everybody
needs to be everybody needs to be in to
to have answered
um so someone asked about the
jurisdiction of border patrol so so
border patrol is obviously a federal
agency and when you have a situation
typically you know border patrol doesn't
serve normal law enforcement purposes
now if we have now i've never worked for
border patrol and uh the jurisdiction
that i've worked in is several hundred
miles from the border so if we do have
anybody from border patrol or with
specific knowledge about border patrol
um watching the live if you could put a
comment in the chat um i'd be more than
happy to defer to a subject matter
expert on this but you know but
border patrol is is in the area this is
close to the border
and
when there's a situation like this and
um
especially something as serious and as
dangerous as an active shooter at a
school
jurisdiction doesn't matter um
it it jurisdiction it just it doesn't
matter if if there's something like this
happens and you're a law enforcement
officer and you hear the call out for
help everybody goes um so that's what
board of border patrol did
and i think it was a member of their
swat team border patrol did um and i
think it was a member of their swat team
who um eventually did the um and ended
this into the situation um so a question
from tristan sedora do you feel with
modern media coverage of police
interactions there will be more deaths
of officers due to a timid response from
these officers due to a fear of doing
the wrong thing
that's an unbelievable question um so so
what you're kind of getting at is what
has been referred to as the ferguson
effect so what the ferguson effect is it
was you know after michael brown was
killed by a police officer uh darren
wilson in in ferguson
missouri back in believe 2013 or 2014
the the idea because so the the i
the idea behind this is that the officer
didn't do
anything criminal yet was treated like
he had done something criminal so
whether or not we agree with that or not
but does that idea from the police
officers does that put into their minds
well if i do my job if i do what i was
trained to do
will i be charged will i be criminally
charged so so and if police officers are
more timid not to do you know at least
what it traditionally has been the job
of police officers will that cause
police officers to be more timid and if
that's the case does that put the rest
of the community at risk so that's a
debate that that people have and i think
that there's reasonable arguments on
both sides but that's that's a great
question like i said that's that's
called the the the ferguson effect is
what they've called it and i think it
absolutely does happen um
i can't say to what extent i think it
depends upon the jurisdiction that
people work in and the the leadership of
individual police departments um there
are somewhere between seven and eight
hundred thousand police officers in the
united states so you know what might be
going on for uh for police officers in
portland might not be the same situation
that is going on for police officers in
tupelo mississippi
um
so we have a question from my enemy
what's the protocol for swat when are
they called in excellent question so
every police department has a different
protocol a different sop a different
policy for when they call in the swat
team but essentially
most departments are going to have
individuals who are
armed who are
barricaded when there's someone else in
in danger
those are the situations that most
police departments and most police
officers are going to call in a a swat
team and most police departments or
jurisdictions have swat teams at least
on call 24 7.
all right let's see what other questions
we got here
uh
let's see
the country someone said uh margaret
rose the country is violent guns are
everywhere nobody is safe yeah so on
that
what's what's been reported is that
there are somewhere
in and around 400 million guns in the
united states um owned by about a
hundred million different americans so
if we look at some of the of the math
behind this it's it's you know there's
400 million guns is what's reported and
of those 400 million guns about 20
million of those are ar-15s um so those
ar-15s um you know there's about 20
million of those that are in uh
circulation somewhere in the country and
that is the the best estimate that we
have
so also over the last couple days
because obviously any time there is a
tragedy or an incident like this
it's it talks about you know gun control
and you know people asking
on both sides reasonable questions about
well how can we prevent this in the in
the future so i think if it that's a
great question to ask but i think that
people have to have some of the facts
behind that so some of the information
behind that is so you know there are
approximately forty thousand murders in
the country are forty thousand gun
deaths in the country
of those forty thousand gun deaths 20
000 of those are suicide so we have
approximately 20 000
gun
murders every single year it's also been
reported that three percent of those so
600 are due to ar-15s so you know ar-15s
um what's typically called assault rifle
um i i guess is responsible for
three three percent of the gun deaths or
about 600 people a year so those are the
numbers that we're talking about so if
we think about it
20 million ar-15s are are involved in in
gun shootings of 600 people
let's see all right so let's see what
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likes that so we have we have a question
from one of our um one of one of our uh
big time viewers um so so james freeman
he asks um so do you have to be an
officer to take out an active shooter so
that's that's a really good question i'm
not trying to provide any legal advice
obviously but
we can talk about what a hypothetical
situation is so i would absolutely check
the laws in your current state but most
states are going to allow individuals to
use um force or deadly force if there is
a reasonable belief that yourself or
someone else is in danger um so like i
would i would
check any law in your state because
every state is going to be a little a
little different but i think it's
reasonable to say
i think it's reasonable to say that if
you have a reasonable belief that your
life or somebody's life is in danger
that you could take steps in order to
preserve life um i i feel like that's
that's a reasonable way to to answer
that question obviously the best thing
to do if you see a situation like that
is to the two prior to
taking action yourself is to make sure
that you call police and at least have
police officers law enforcement
emergency professionals on the way and a
lot of times even if you're a police
officer who's off duty a lot of times
the best thing that you can possibly do
is to just be a good witness
be a good witness and be a good on the
ground eyes and ears for police officers
who are in uniform and on duty to come
and handle whatever situation happens to
be there but that is a really really
good question
um
oh my gosh we got some comments about um
minneapolis um let's see uh
yeah so so america first again thank you
i said just don't get yourself killed by
arriving police officers that's a really
smart comment and that's pretty much
what i said so you can imagine a
situation where you're off duty and
maybe you're dressed in a nice flannel
shirt and you know if there's an active
shooter that's happening or there's some
incident where someone is shooting you
can imagine a situation where multiple
people are calling police officers and
it's like a game of telephone so it goes
from whoever takes the 911 call to the
dispatcher to the officers and the
officers who are responding how much of
that information are they actually
getting and they're not just sitting
there you know listening in like a
perfect quiet place getting the
information they're also they're they're
they're driving they're trying to run
code and and operate their their
vehicles and
coordinate with other resources to get
there so you know
if the information so if you're
you don't want to you don't want the
arriving police officers to mistake you
good person who's trying to help an end
you know possibly active shooter
situation you don't want the police
officers to confuse you
for
bad guy if that if that makes sense so
that is a really good question a really
good comment um
the next reasonable question would be
well how do you
determine that um i mean the best thing
or how do you avoid that well the best
can do if you happen to find yourself in
a situation like that you know once you
see police officers arrive on scene make
sure if you have a weapon make sure it's
holstered it's put away so what you
don't want is to arrive in a situation
where you're armed with a firearm and
it's you're active with it and police
officers are arriving on scene because
you can imagine the situation how
reasonable police officers might make
that mistake um and that would be
obviously a worse
a worst case
scenario to happen um let's see how do
you feel about
how do you feel about some of the meteor
ports that are coming out of the lmpd
i'm not sure what that is so if anyone
knows what lmpd is uh please please let
me let me know um
let's see so
just wait for it
uh watch out
okay so um
any other questions about about this
incident you know we'd be we'd be more
than more than happy to to handle um to
to go
through um a lot of people are typing
about um
jalen randall the the poli the
the case
by houston pd so i try to cover these
issues um as much as i can and i'm
trying to
off top my head i'm trying to think of
which case that is so um i tried to stay
up to date on these but if someone could
put in a sentence or two on on exactly
what that case was um i'd be more than
happy to to to go through it and to and
to talk about it but these are the kinds
of things i like so if you have a
request for different cases you would
like us to talk about or maybe you're
like i don't want to listen to this guy
talk about an entire case but i've got
this one specific question about this
one case um you know more than happy to
answer that as well you can put that in
the in in different um
chats and different comments and videos
and you know we'd be more than happy to
handle it um you know what would be what
would be nice what would be i ideal is
that you know if we get you know even
prior to um us going live which we're
going to do on a more regular basis is
to have questions in advance that people
have asked so we can make sure that we
are answering questions and more
importantly talking about issues and
topics that you think are interesting um
so let's see any comments about the
incident where the cop used his taser on
a suspect after he was tackled while
putting gas in his motorcycle and the
taser set the gas fire burning 70
percent of his body yeah absolutely so i
i have i'll do it quick but i have a
whole bunch on that one yeah so that was
a situation in osceola county florida
and actually the sheriff there is a
really colorful guy i think his name is
marcus lopez and um
he did a a briefing on it but the long
story short on that one is
there were people on motorcycles and
bikes who were driving driving in a
reckless fashion
people called in and actually the police
helicopter captured a lot of this on
their video so they
and as the police officers tried to to
stop the individuals the the the one guy
he ran he didn't stop for police then
for some reason he went to a gas station
really close to his house well because
he was being tracked by the helicopter
the helicopter was able to guide in
police officers so a police officer
arrived on scene and where the guy who
he
thought and i think his even his
attorney even confirmed that it was him
had was pumping gas so the police
officer tried to arrest him um
if you watch the video and the video is
is around it it doesn't seem like there
was much uh de-escalation or it seemed
like pretty much as soon as he contacted
him
it seems like as soon as he contacted
him um you know it was pretty much a use
of force and maybe we would call like an
empty hand takedown and during that
takedown
the individual's motorcycle got pushed
over while he was pumping gas so gas was
everywhere then another police officer
showed up and tried to use a taser the
taser was ineffective
and at that point the officer
the first officer who was doing the
takedown grabbed the individual's taser
the other officer's taser that he had
discarded when it didn't work and then
he used the taser on on the individual
when he did he set himself two other
officers and the guy that they were
arresting on fire um and
it's it's it's almost an unbelievable
thing um so a couple things on this is
that you know a reasonable question to
ask is well maybe he didn't know that
there was gas well it's on body camera
video that prior to deploying the taser
that set everybody on fire that he said
on his body camera shut off the pumps
there's gas
so
what the officer was thinking at the
time it's hard to tell because it wasn't
just
the individual they were trying to
arrest who now has burned over 70 of his
body but it was also
the officer and three other police
officers who were set on fire as well um
so that police officer who used the
taser was actually charged with culpable
negligence um which in florida can be
either a misdemeanor or a felony um the
there's some criticism because the
sheriff's department didn't send this
case to the uh attorney general's office
or to the state that they kept it local
um so they did charge that officer with
a misdemeanor offense for uh culpable uh
negligence but it is it could also be a
a felony in florida and once it gets to
the da's office um i'm not sure how much
discretion the da has in this pretend
and the jurisdiction we're talking about
but i wouldn't be surprised that if the
d.a
decided to up those charges i know that
would happen in a lot of other cities
and states um also police are losing a
lot of their rights this is why a lot of
departments are not being proactive
anymore yeah and i think that's that's
an absolutely reasonable thing to say um
so when we talk about police officers
losing their rights um so i i i think to
be more specific you know there has been
a push to end qualified immunity which i
i can talk about qualified immunity and
i'll i'll do this topic really quick
just so people understand what that is
so what qualified immunity is is it's
essentially
a protection for police officers and
other government workers you know
teachers and judges
people who work for
public works and sanitation all
government workers have public have
qualified immunity which means they
can't be personally sued
unless they violate clearly established
constitutional rights so what that means
is that qualified immunity so having
qualified immunity that doesn't prevent
police officers from initiating internal
affairs investigations it doesn't
prevent police departments
from
issuing discipline
firing officers suspending it doesn't
prevent any of that
qualified immunity also doesn't prevent
the district attorney's office from
filing
criminal charges against a police
officer or it also doesn't prevent
the feds from going after police
officers for violations of civil rights
so when people talk about so i think a
lot of people who don't necessarily
understand what qualified immunity is
think that well you know if we end
qualified immunity it's going to fix
some of these issues that we have with
police and it and it really won't um so
even if we go to colorado so colorado
ended qualified immunity
um i think i believe for state claims
i'd have to verify that but but i think
it's
i think it's essentially you know maybe
a police officer
um maybe a police officer would have to
pay at most twenty thousand twenty five
thousand well
what's going to happen is there are
insurance companies that are already in
talks with police departments so if this
happens um police officers are going to
have their insurance providers pay these
things um pay these pay these different
claims which
if the goal is to change behavior of
police which bad behavior absolutely we
should should find ways to change that
but if the goal is to change or alter or
discourage bad behavior from police
ending qualified immunity i just really
isn't a good tool for that and those are
some of the reasons why and we can go
into more detail on it on a different
video if people are interested in that
topic i'm not sure how popular i think
it's interesting but not sure how many
other people do i'm also qualified
immunity wasn't a right it was a
protection for bad actors yeah so
qualified immunity is like i said even
in states that have qualified immunity
police officers can be investigated
disciplined terminated charged by a
local prosecutor and charged by a fed uh
the federal government for civil rights
violations all that qualified immunity
does is make it so police officers don't
personally have to pay
um for um
for bad acts i guess
um let's see what other questions did we
did we have
all right okay so we got a couple more
questions um and and while we're doing
this um i really want to thank the
audience who's watching um i know it's
it's friday during during during the day
and people have a lot going on so i
really appreciate everybody um joining
in being here and and watching us um and
and definitely give us give us feedback
because like i said we want this to be
um something that is interactive and
something that you think that the
audience likes and thinks is is
interesting and and worthwhile so thank
you all for
for for being here and for asking just
really good questions a lot a lot better
than i than i thought i thought they'd
be good but
these been really really good good good
questions um
oh my gosh
let's see
let's see if we got any other questions
or or comments
uh let's see
oh my gosh marco polo's got some
interesting interesting comments
uh
okay so let's let's talk about this i
mean i just don't want to talk about the
things that people like about police
officers i think it's also interesting
to talk about things that people don't
like about police officers and it's okay
to not agree i think those are the most
interesting conversations and
discussions are with people who might
have a different opinion i see it as
that's how we learn things and get
better so let's read this comment from
smcg police officers already don't do
anything we should change the type of
standards we have for officers the kind
of people that want to be police aren't
the kind of people we want okay so i
guess i would just ask for more more
information about that um like what are
you talking about specifically so i know
that some of the criticisms are is that
they want police officers to all have a
college degree or some some other people
say that all police officers should have
to have military experience or all
police officers should have to work in a
jail first before they go out on the
road so there's a lot of different
criticisms
of of police officers and the type of
people that are being hired but
typically a hiring process for not all
but most police departments is a written
test a physical test a psychological
test an interview with a psychologist a
polygraph test a medical test and an
interview with the leaders of police
departments so that's a typical process
to get hired on a police department
it's not
the
departments that have those processes
it's not it's not an easy process but
you know there definitely should be a
conference because the police officers
work for the community so the individual
community should be the ones to you know
have a lot of say in the type of people
that are patrolling their streets and
keeping them safe so um do you have any
more who um s meg i think it was who
made that comment um yeah i i think that
um you have any more information or
suggestions i think everything is is
reasonable to to uh to to talk about and
discuss
um so
i i wanted to throw a question out there
did you guys we did a video um
uh on a a police sergeant who was
arrested for driving while intoxicated
so did you guys like the video about the
dwi the the the dwi video we did with
the the the sergeant um
that was pretty much arrested by police
officers that he knows so are those the
type of um
videos that you guys like did you did
you think that video was good or
interesting
also
did you enjoy the voice of the of the
d
dwi officer um
um with the video we did about the
politician who was arrested for dwi so
we got a lot of comments about this
guy's voice i'm just curious if any of
the people who
i mean
typically you know i don't get comments
on my on my final shirts and we
typically don't get comments about
people's voices so you know when there
are a lot of comments i think it's just
an interesting thing to act um
let's see
uh
body okay body camera let's see this is
body cam body cameras don't help until
the mute button is not there anymore and
then no pause button and then charge
them for turning off early okay i think
i think that's interesting so so body
camera so obviously if we go around the
country the last statistic i saw on this
is that
80 percent of all police officers in the
united states have body cameras i think
that's great i think the more body
cameras we have
the better not just because we like to
show those on this channel but because
it not only protects the public but it
protects the police officer and it's
transparency and really the best way to
get to
police and the public you know having a
really it's for the public trusting the
police is to have transparency so i
think body cameras are great i think
that every police officer and the
country should have them um and
and there are different so there are
different companies that have that issue
different body cameras so you know
depending upon what company a department
goes with those body cameras might have
different features one of the most
popular ones is is axon has has body
cameras that is very popular a lot of a
lot of different police officers
a lot of different police officers
is
departments use that and they actually
have the best quality video so if you
know a lot of the times the video
quality is is
it's as good as it can be from what the
type of um what the type of camera is
but yeah so most police departments at
least for
um
so it's it's about
let me think so it's um
most police departments
the body camera system that they use you
know doesn't have a pause button
and
they don't have a pause button obviously
police officers can turn them on and
turn them off so really what that comes
down to is
the policy from the police department so
not only is the officer operating the
camera but there are policies saying
that police officers you have to record
this you have to record that okay if
it's you in another officer in a car and
you're driving to get something to eat
you don't have to record that um or if
you and an officer are talking up to a
confidential informant or if you're at a
hospital and there's medical information
being given so so typically there are
police departments have you know rules
and for different
um situations on when body cameras can
be turned off and should be turned off
and should should be recorded um so i i
mean you know whatever those policies
are police officers absolutely should
follow and they should always err on the
side of caution of um of of
recording as much as possible um so we
are going to be releasing a new video um
about a a nasty pastor later today um so
watch out for that that'll be a great
video but we'll have it out later today
um about uh about a pastor um
so
we're gonna do a few more minutes and um
uh so so uh one more body camera some
cameras come on and then audio comes on
30 seconds later yeah so i so the way
that body cameras work is um if a body
camera is completely turned off
then you know you have to go through the
process of turning it on but there's
kind of like a purgatory there's like a
middle station that most body cameras
have and it i think it's called you know
everyone calls them different let's call
it buffering mode so when it's in that
mode the camera is on um so but it's not
recording so then when an officer hits
the button to turn it on the video
starts immediately um but because the
camera was you know was was on you get
30 seconds of video before
you hit the button so the audio starts
once the officer turns on hits the
button but you get 30 seconds of video
before that that was there so the reason
for that is you can imagine a situation
where an officer maybe they're just stan
standing at a police station or they're
buying something at a gas station or
in a different situation where it
wouldn't be required to have their body
camera on but something happens fast
something happens quick well if an
officer hits the button and turns it on
the audio starts right away but the
video goes back 30 seconds so it's
that's a great feature to have built in
because then you know even though the
officer wasn't planning on recording it
because they weren't planning to turn on
the body camera it automatically
captures 30 seconds up to what initiated
the the triggering of that body camera
so that is a good feature but if you
ever see what you're going to see a lot
of videos where the first 30 seconds
doesn't have any audio that's why
that's that that's how it builds
uh let's see
okay so
uh my friend is a director at axon taser
and he loves channels like yours they
bring his company much promotion that's
from reds general district court um yeah
so um axon is the the body camera
company that has the the best um before
this individual said that they have um
the best the best questions um i mean
they have the best the best quality of
video um someone asked if i was in the
military no i i was not in the military
i graduated my undergrad degree in 2005
and
when i was 22 and then a couple months
later
i went into the i went into the police
academy right after that um
let's see uh
okay
okay
all right um so i think we're gonna go
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