This female LEO may have missed a few shots, but despite extreme pressure, she quickly racked and tapped when it counted.
Some persons would have panicked in this situation, I suspect her training saved her life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...8cE&feature=emb_logo

Failure to feed, not face to face.

Holy cow! That went south fast. Good for the officer.

if you slow the video down, it looks like the assailant caused the jam.

His left hand hit the officer's gun, and then at least two casings fell to the ground. others noted what I thought were shell casings were actually the screwdriver and knife originally in his right hand




After he is initially shot, he drops the knife (knives ?). Then bends over and picks the knife up and stands up.

totally justified to keep shooting


This is a bizarre story.

https://www.policeone.com/offi...te-nlVyglqmY9evlM3j/

Michigan State Police have released video of a man being shot and fatally injured by an Eaton County Sheriff’s deputy after he approached her with a knife.

The incident occurred in a neighborhood area on Jerryson Drive in Delta Township around 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday. Police have identified the man shot by police as Sean Ernest Ruis, 43, of Grand Ledge. He later died in surgery.

The deputy had been pursuing Ruis after he allegedly stabbed a 77-year-old man from Lansing inside a Dimondale Quality Dairy store earlier Tuesday morning.

MSP say an argument began inside the store shortly before 6:45 a.m. over Ruis, who was a customer there, not wearing a mask. Ruis was refused service by the store. Ruis is accused of stabbing an older man in the store before he fled in a vehicle.

The graphic police video shows Ruis exiting the vehicle and walking toward the deputy with a knife in his hand. The female deputy, a 22-year veteran officer, can be seen yelling at the man to drop the weapon while backing away from Ruis.

The video then shows the deputy firing several rounds at Ruis when he fails to comply and makes an aggressive motion toward her. He then drops to the ground.

The stabbing victim was treated for his injuries, police said. The incident remains under investigation by the Michigan State Police.

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She did well with the jam.

I would like to know how many hits she got.

And lets show this video to the "why shoot him more than once" and the "shoot him in the leg" idiots. That guy kept attacking for up to four or five seconds after being hit, assuming he was hit by one of the first one or two shots.

Saw that one on Police Activity. What the hell? Looks like he had 2 knives, and she likely caught a slash or stick. Crazy she gets him multiple times and he's still up. Sounded like 5, jam, then 6 more. She had to have landed minimum 2 outta the first five doesn't even phase the guy.

11 rounds fired and he's still talking, probably got a body full of lead. Crazy how that works in real life.

He was playing the ultimate version of the copycat game there. Maybe he never grew up.

Saw that on Liveleak first, but YouTube is better because it can be slowed to frame by frame.

The attacker was carrying a large screwdriver in addition to the knife, and he hit her wrist and maybe the gun with it. That may have been the cause of the malfunction.

It’s lucky the wrist strike didn’t cause the officer to drop her gun. A hit on the inside of the wrist like that is taught as a disarming technique because it can cause the grip to open involuntarily.

A definite demonstration of “shoot until the threat is neutralized.”

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Originally posted by sdy:
After he is initially shot, he drops the knife (knives ?). Then bends over and picks the knife up and stands up.

totally justified to keep shooting

Absolutely.
When I first saw the video I didn’t notice that the man attempted to pick up his knife after being shot and dropping it earlier. I thought that the deputy might be criticized for continuing to shoot him after he started to fold down, but his picking up the knife definitely justified the additional shots.

Very good job officer.

Great job. Should be required viewing for anyone dumb enough to defund/disarm the police.

I may be wrong, but after watching the video several times in slo-mo and freeze frame, I’m not sure any of her shots hit the suspect at all until after she cleared the stoppage.

Glad to see the officer is ok, the BG not so much!

just my guess, but I think she shot him in the front right hip area before the jam.

It looks like bullets hitting the road behind him.

Which would mean if he had stopped then, he might have lived.

Just empty the mag until the target is no longer a threat

Great example of how good training and proficiency with her weapon enabled this officer to survive. Of course there will be idiots out there demanding to know why this incident wasn't "de-escalated", even after viewing the efforts she took to get this crazy guy to stop and comply. Another example of how much good, the video age can do for law enforcement.

She did a great job giving him numerous chances to survive the encounter, keeping as much distance as she could between them, clearing the jamb when as the threat was highest, and taking him down when he continued to be a threat. Great job and glad she's okay.

Good work!

I didn't realize you could slow down youtube video, neat. Looking at it in slow motion, he had a long screwdriver in his left hand and a shorter one in his right along with what appears to be a knife. He drops both objects from his right hand. There's a couple frames where both are in the air then hitting the ground. In a couple of these frames the knife like object reminds me of a masonry trowel. Yeah, I know. Deck chairs on the Titanic.

Over wearing a mask no less!

He had a screwdriver in his left hand and another screwdriver in his right hand along with a knife.

After he dropped the knife and screwdriver in his left hand he then transferred the screwdriver in his left hand to his right hand... because he is right handed I would guess. He then decides to pick the knife back up, so he bends over, reaches down for the knife with his right hand but he has a screwdriver in that hand... so when about 6 inches above the ground he drops the remaining screwdriver in favor of the knife. That action was the last he will ever make. DRT.

In my opinion he was never completely disarmed, good job officer.

oh dang. Only question I have is why did she wait so long to shoot? He had a knife advancing on her, she's lucky to still be alive. Once she started shooting though, she was cool as a cumber. Handled her malfunction like a champ!

As was mentioned, I'd be curious to know how many connected. He didn't seem to flinch at all except when he took one in the leg?

Not quite sure how some out there think not obeying a LEO will end well? That thought is beyond me. Good job officer!