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Old May 16, 2014, 12:53 AM   #3
jeager106
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Join Date: November 24, 2006
Location: N.E. Oh.
Posts: 527
I had a situation, the one that ended my career, when NOT going for my pistol was the right thing to do. ( I think )
I was 48, 5'10, 170, "he" was 23, 6-2, 220 & stoned on crack.
I had secured a warrent for him for aggrevated robbery, spotted him in the hood. He ran, I chased without a prayer of catching him but he tripped & I was on him, but who had who?
He was whooping me pretty bad & actually lifting me off the ground a bit with the butt of the pistol which was in a retention holster.
I thought for a second about shooting him (disparity of force & size etc) but figured as beat as I was & strong, young, stoned as he was it was likely he'd rip the gun away & shoot me with it.
I managed to get him in the "choke" hold, really a sleeper hold, & put him out.
I had a broken back, both knees blown out but didn't know it at the time.
That was my last arrest.
I spent 9 months, 5 days a week, in rehab getting use of the left leg back.
Maybe I could have shot him, maybe not.
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