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Very rarely will helping an LEO require a firearm. Usually it involves helping subdue a combative subject using hard empty hand control. Just a thought.

My memory is not the best (my wife can vouch) but I seem to remember a situation involving a DPS Trooper who had been shot during a traffic stop on I20 outside of Big Spring sometime after midnight. Help was a long way away. The officer was alive, but pinned down behind his cruiser. A man who witnessed the event stopped two or three hundred yards away and used a scoped rifle to take the bad guy down. His name was never released.

ETA: I searched for this incident and didn't find anything. It may be that my memory has failed me.

Again though, having a weapon anywhere near an officer in such a situation could have gone horribly wrong the other way. My thought would be to not reveal or draw a weapon until you had reached the officer's side and he made sure you were there to help and then notified responding officers of that fact. Then inform him that you have a weapon and what would he like you to do. My thoughts, anyway.

Nooz is reporting that a woman assisted an HPD officer last night when a guy he was rolling around with was trying to get his gun. Said she jumped on his back and "held him" until another officer arrived.

jamisjockey wrote:Nooz is reporting that a woman assisted an HPD officer last night when a guy he was rolling around with was trying to get his gun. Said she jumped on his back and "held him" until another officer arrived.

Way to go girl!

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- Jim

--PeteCamp--
That was back a ways, but big news at the time.
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The astonishing thing was the police refusing to release any info. on the bystander who helped.

--They said it was to protect the bystander who helped.--

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Sadly, in todays times, that would most likely not even be considered.
There were some REAL LAWMEN back then. Today - not so much.

gigag04 wrote:Very rarely will helping an LEO require a firearm. Usually it involves helping subdue a combative subject using hard empty hand control. Just a thought.

The few I've been involved in were that way, but in one incident I thought we were going to guns.