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“Don’t Mess With The Tulsa Police...”
For the past ten years, I and several other officers have worked a rough area, the kind of area that any contact or arrest usually draws a large crowd of people, many of whom are not fond of the police.
One night about a month ago, we got into a short vehicle pursuit and foot chase with a suspect who, unbeknownst to us, had a Shooting with Intent to Kill warrant out for him out of a nearby city. The foot chase went over what seemed like a hundred fences and though numerous backyards. The powerful beam from my TigerLight performed flawlessly. The chase finally came to a stop, though, in a backyard that the officers who work the area now call the “minefield”. It seems that someone had cut down nearly forty small, 1-2” inch in diameter trees in his backyard but had left about 4-6 inches of each one sticking up out of the ground. They blended in perfectly with brown grass. As we learned very painfully, these things were / are invisible at night.
The suspect jumped a fence, entered the “minefield” and immediately tripped. He was followed by my partner who did the exact same thing. My partner though, having seen the suspect go down, was mid-draw so when he tripped, his weapon went flying across the yard. I hit the yard next and, not to be left out, also tripped. The suspect got back up, ran a few feet, and tripped again. While my partner secured his weapon, I got up, ran, and ate it again. Every time we fell, we fell onto these small, blunt-ended trees and it HURT. It was like getting punched in a couple of different places every time we ran and tripped.
Eventually, I tripped my way to within tackling distance of the suspect only to find that he was much bigger than he had looked when the chase started. He had me by about 5 inches in height and about 60 lbs. I managed to take him down but, like we had done several times before, we fell on the tops of more of those cut down trees. What little breath I had left after the foot chase had been knocked out by a tree to the ribs. My falls had also left me with a knee that hurt like hell and a gashed open right leg. Somehow though, I had managed to keep hold of my TigerLight.
After my takedown the suspect started to get back up. Rather than try to out-muscle him and considering the beating those freaking trees were laying on us, I went straight to my TigerLight. I reached over the suspect and deployed the “1-second” burst.
It turned out that the suspect had almost no breath left either and the Sabre Red from my TigerLight took care of what remained. He gave up immediately.
We guided the suspect back to my patrol car where the car chase ended. Once back there and having been surrounded by a large crowd of local residents, the suspect began rolling back and forth on the ground yelling; “Don’t run from the $#%&@ police! They’ll turn your ass into a &%$@* chili pepper!!!”
My TigerLight survived getting slammed to the ground HARD several times. Although the cut down trees were too perfectly camouflaged to be seen, the brilliance of the TigerLight’s beam did allow me to constantly watch the suspect’s hands for threats. In addition, the immediate accessibility of the OC spray brought a fast end to a painful chase.
One final thought… The suspect’s ringing endorsement of the OC spray’s effects, when given at high volume to an attentive audience, makes an impact. If only one potential future suspect in that crowd remembers those words and the image of our suspect rolling around in pain, perhaps they will think twice before resisting arrest or assaulting an officer. All in all, I’d say it was a good night’s work for my TigerLight.
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