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I hope this post isn't deleted if I observe that doesn't leave many hands free for wrestling.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
Additionally most of the emergency buttons are configured to open the mic on the radio for 10-15 sec allowing the dispatcher to hear what's going on without the officer having to keep his/her hand on the mic button. Very effective for emergency communications.MoJo wrote:A lot of the walkies that police and fire use have an orange or red button that when pressed sends out a distress code.
A deputy sheriff friend of mine was trying to cuff a 90 pound "lady of the evening" when she tried to grab his gun. The only thing he could do was hang on to the cuffs and protect his gun. He hit the button and hoped help got there before somebody got shot. Within three minutes he said there were four city cops three deputies and a DPS trooper there to lend a hand. Needless to say, the "lady" who was being picked up for a misdemeanor warrant wound up with a felony resisting arrest charge added.
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.tbrown wrote:I hope this post isn't deleted if I observe that doesn't leave many hands free for wrestling.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
MechAg94 wrote:That was a very long article that said almost nothing about what happened. Also, people do very stupid things when they are drunk or high. "Smart" kids do stupid things too even though those people said what a nice boy he was.
With the lack of information, it is difficult to make any judgement on this one. However, there was likely a struggle or difficulty of some kind. Odds are the cop didn't start it.
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.
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.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 work for a University and I can tell you it is a fact that smart kids get very stupid when they are drunk. Some of them have the mentality that Campus Police aren't really police which brings on a whole other level of stupidity."Smart" kids do stupid things too even though those people said what a nice boy he was.
Any evidence yet that this kid was intoxicated?SC1903A3 wrote:I work for a University and I can tell you it is a fact that smart kids get very stupid when they are drunk. Some of them have the mentality that Campus Police aren't really police which brings on a whole other level of stupidity."Smart" kids do stupid things too even though those people said what a nice boy he was.
I haven't heard any suggestions that he was drinking. An article stated that he was celebrating the end of finals with some friends at 2AM.jmra wrote:Any evidence yet that this kid was intoxicated?SC1903A3 wrote:I work for a University and I can tell you it is a fact that smart kids get very stupid when they are drunk. Some of them have the mentality that Campus Police aren't really police which brings on a whole other level of stupidity."Smart" kids do stupid things too even though those people said what a nice boy he was.
