See the bottom line is the cops all plane to got home at night
Harumphh... Splutter... Cough......
Why yes. If you take the incidents you go through as a single event in a normal persons life, the potential for personal injury or worse can be considerable.
Then you do it it time after time, night after night.
Well you realise you are either damn good, damn lucky, or beating the statistics
OOPS, its THAT word.
Either way you develop an ability to move first and question later when people reach a certain emotional point, or they move in certain ways.
None of this of course can be taught, it is the "School of hard knocks" lessons that you pick up on the way.
Personally, he over reached in his manouver putting himself off balance totaly, if the guy had not had his hands in his pocket he probably would have been dog tucker.
A grab across the body line from the victim, along with a pivot and pull through would have had the cop flat on his face with his arm extended. Bloody dangerous place to be with a weapon on your belt.
Let alone if he had had his mates standing by ready to give problems.
NEVER over reach, maintain your balance, step in when you need, it helps with leverage and control. He would also have been able to twist the knobber into a face down position, brace his arm up his back, sink a knee in between his shoulder blades and have complete control in 2 seconds. BTDT.
Apparently it is all about leverage, but who am I to say, they don't give degrees for this Sh!t, Just retirement in one piece.