http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Police

The Maryland State Police are currently issued a Beretta PX4 Storm, but the officer in the video seems to be carrying something of the Beretta type, but I cannot tell. It definitely does not look like a glock which usually have a square slide.

When he holsters the weapon his thumb appears to come up to hit a decocker, which on a Beretta is on the back of the slide and ambidextrous.

I don't know if its standard protocol to have the hammer in ready position, most pistols are double action. However it does appear that he is placing the gun on safe when he holsters the weapon, he is definitely doing something.

In this case I don't think he needed to draw his weapon. Some will say that's protocol; I say if the perpetrator was not armed then there was no need to present a weapon. In my mind the situation did not scale on the force continuum to have need for a weapon. Maybe soft physical force; the officer jumped straight to lethal force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Heh, thanks Nordy. You seem to know a lot about handgun training, so if I may ask a question? Does he appear to take the safety off with his left hand immediately after drawing the weapon? Is that procedure, or is the decision to saftey off a separate event?

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
>> ^schmawy:

Nope. It's not changing.


TELL EM SERIOUS CAT!
GET 'EM!

Translates roughly to North Rider, but more literally to North Riding. Riding in a generally northern direction.


In reply to this comment by marinara:
does your name mean 'northern lights'?

In reply to this comment by highdileeho:
Whatever you cracker ass faggot



In reply to this comment by Heartspark:
This is why people don't say crap when riding public transportation. You don't know the person, or anything about them. Hell they could be on the bus with a handgun ready to take out every coworker they are with and was going to leave you alone till you said "hello".


Racist, mental problems, or not..EBM WAS in the right here. He did defend himself.
Black or white does not matter, you do not act on impulses to do whatever violent act you see fit based on someones words towards you.

If that was the case, half you mother fuckers would be dead on here.


Wow, I had respect for you. Now I don't.

In reply to this comment by highdileeho:
Thanks for that great definition, I would be lost in this world if people like you don't take up the role of degrading peoples intellect. That spelling correction: thank you. I assume you sent out replies to everyone who had an opinion on this video? oh right, you were being a loudmouthed arrogant douchebag.

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
>> ^highdileeho:
I'm pretty sure that mother fucker asked the black guy to spit shine his 'stacy adams'. that's why the whole thing started, and why the woman replied with racial slurs, It was in response to the motherfuckers racism. I'm pretty sure the black guy was just reacting to the white guys racism as well. The motherfucker started it, the motherfucker initiated the bullying, and the black guy was vilified for being in the wrong. Funny how everyone assumed that the black guy must have deserved it. You refer to an asian as a 'chinaman' on the street and see if you get the motherfucker treatment, I bet you will. I just hope the asian won't vilified.
I changed the spelling of the word Vilified to be correct in your quote, so now it is a paraphrase.

We don't know what happened before the video, so there is no way to know for sure who started what. Or how the conversation began to take place. The evidence in the video is circumstantial. This means we have to infer what happened before, and that is highly uncertain. Circumstantial evidence alone is not enough to have a case, there must be corroborating evidence. There simply exists, for us, no way to know what took place before the beginning of this video.

No I was simply replying to your comment, and I took the time to proof it.

Your assumption is wrong. I only replied to those that I thought were interesting enough to comment.

Furthermore you can look at my comment history and find loads of spelling errors, grammar failures and overall stupidity. I take the time to proof read my comments now, because once they are on the internet they are there forever. Or until the internet implodes. Even if that means proofreading the quotes that I use.

HAHAHA!!! NO I DONT WANNA GO STERILE DUE TO THE XRAYS!!!!

In reply to this comment by Don_Juan:
Cod Pieces? Ha! Ashamed of your Cod?? Ha!!

Someone will find a way to subvert this mechanism, and then the security designers will find a way to patch it. So on and so forth. Its not so much a slippery slope argument as a futile effort to avert crisis. Which only adds to the stupidity of it all.

Now we get lead lined cod pieces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa87kayqCk

you might find that interesting

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hi Nordy. Where ya been?

Ive been good. I was gone due to the Videosift catastrophe. I was getting access denied responses from the Login so I assumed that I was banned. I assumed wrong, hah!

I spent most of that time lurking, but when i saw the update I figured I would try to log in and I succeeded.

I chalk it up to user error which means my fault.

I see that the discussion here is still very rich and excellent!

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Thanks for the reply.

But wait- I'm confused. You mean you were fooled by the other 2 into thinking they were paintings?

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
The one in the middle of your blog looks like a photograph... had me fooled.


Fooled by the one in the middle into thinking it was a photo.

The gazebo looks very real.

Fixed, it seems I had an attack of the bad grammar today. Nearly all of my comments are misspelled and butchered.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Threw?

Its lupus


http://images.google.com/images?q=its%20not%20lupus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

The cat returns. I should be punished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Returns

Exactly why I posted it... I don't think any one will figure it out.

Its like ... Infinity, and Pi.

In reply to this comment by roguewrx:
what the hell did I just watch?

I may be a little slow for the cheese, but here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhaQlFLXK4c

Richard Cheese Down with the Sickness

Fixed, its all over you tube now. lol

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
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Thank you for fixing the video.