have to choose to de-escalate but i think these officers did a pretty good job of trying to establish contact and build rapport and when he was loud and obnoxious and whatever they're like okay sir if you don't want us here we will leave i think that was absolutely the right choice because he hadn't committed any crimes or anything like that there was no like you know it didn't matter he didn't like cops he didn't want them there he even said mean nasty things about i don't like women and i'll tell you why and all that stuff and i love that the officers didn't take the bait they stayed cool they stayed collected hey we're here to help you we're here for the fire department to see you if they need to so whatever can we do sir to help you and and i think that that was really excellent work from these officers now of course by the time that the third one shows up here we've got some pretty significant change so he's called and harassed NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN a whole bunch and and you might say well we're just going to ignore him for the night but really can you i mean ignoring a NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN call is going to cause huge negative repercussions in the community so the police clearly can't do that and they also can't pass the buck to someone else so i know some people are going to say well why didn't a social worker show up well these officers are crisis intervention trained officers and since this guy has said i will kill you and those kinds of things well the fire department wasn't willing to go certainly a a social worker or a mental health professional is not going to go without some officers there for their protection so there's really no other solution here other than to try to intervene on this guy ahead of time and i don't know his family situation or those things but the officers were forced to be in this kind of bad situation and he's the one who escalated it and i think they did a pretty good job of de-escalating it let's talk from a tactical perspective at this point i do think that there's definitely some things that we can think about and i want to notice here that he decides to come to the door and he says i've got a gun now first thing here this is a handheld light that this officer has we'll see it in some other frames that she has her hand held light up and i think that is a great choice but notice here that in the camera it gets washed out big time but from an eyeball perspective you want to have a light that's bright enough to get some light photons through that that white door to your subject and back to you and that's going to take a pretty good amount you actually want less spill here rather than more to bounce fewer of the barrier past you so you got a pretty big barrier here but lighting up a target so that you can see because there's you know again darkness right at the doorway and you want to be able to see through that and see what's in his hands i think is very important now of course you can see right here he comes through and that certainly looks to me like a firearm as we pointed out it there this guy comes out says he
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