Background
A lane ended due to construction and the driver of the car parked in front of the Dash Cam wedged his vehicle in front of the vehicle with the Dash Cam. A minor amount of paint was swapped.
Actors will be called "Stellantis" and "Dash Cam".
Link to 31 seconds into the event
ERJ note one: Look at the hands of Stellantis as he exits his vehicle and approaches Dash Cam.
ERJ note two: Observe that Dash Cam turns his back on Stellantis from 0:43 until 0:47. Perhaps not a good move, tactically. At 0:47 Stellantis removes his right hand from the hoodie and hits Dash Cam in the side of the face. His hand may or may-not have been holding a weapon.
ERJ note three: Stellantis's weapon is clearly visible at 0:49 and he is raising it to shoot Dash Cam. At this point, things speed up. I advise you slow it down to 25% speed.
Still at 0:49: Both men appear to fire simultaneously at a range of five-to-seven paces.
ERJ note four: Before 0:50, Dash Cam pulled his weapon after Stellantis's weapon became clearly visible and Dash Cam fired twice and Stellantis fired at least once. The first shot was Stellantis's only "aimed" shot. From the sounds, the men were firing in near unison and Stellantis fired at least one more shot based on smoke.
ERJ note five: Unless there is an echo, Dash Cam is cranking off more than two shots per second. At 0.50, a puff of concrete dust spouts off off the utility pole in the median at about 7' of height.
ERJ note six: At 0:51, Dash Cam shoots through the rear window of Stellantis's car even though Stellantis might not have been visible. It may have been Dash Cam's 6th shot in three seconds. It is difficult to tell from the acoustics.
ERJ note seven: Shooting re-starts at 0:58. Dash Cam shoots six more times in two seconds. No reverb issues. It does not seem that Stellantis fires another shot.
What Dash Cam could have done differently
He could have stayed in his vehicle, vehicle running with transmission in gear and starting to call 9-1-1, especially after Stellantis's walking toward Dash Cam while keeping one hand hidden in the pocket of his hoodie until Stellantis started shooting.
Dash Cam could have talked through the window and been ready to floor the vehicle if Stellantis got hinky.
If he had gotten out of the vehicle, he should not have walked in front of Stellantis. Better to walk beside him so he can keep him in his peripheral vision.
Considering that Dash Cam just got clonked in the face and his eyes were probably watering, he was able to rip his weapon out of the holster and return accurate fire amazingly fast. Also amazing, to me, was the volume of fire he generated.
Things went sideways very, very quickly. Stellantis really didn't leave Dash Cam any good options.
Opinions from my readers will be appreciated. The event happened in Milwaukee.
Dash Cam did return fire quickly. I don't think the other person thought he was armed but when removing his hand from hoodie, he was clearly armed. I think he was the escalator from what I see and Dash Cam was lucky he was carrying at the time.
ReplyDeleteAll could have been avoided if Dash Cam had allowed the other driver to move in front.. Just a few seconds to slow down. Dash Cam was under no obligation to do so, it was the other driver's lane who was blocked off.
I don't know if either was hit or seriously injured - I hope not. Not over this.
ERJ
DeleteStellantis died
DeleteAnd the world is a better place now.
DeleteI've never, ever been willing to kill someone else, or die, over getting cut off in traffic.
ReplyDeleteLike, wtf is wrong with people, that they would escalate....
Oh, its them again, isn't it?
Yes, its them. Again.
See the problem yet, or are we just going to keep dancing around the topic like a bunch of scared kittens?
Road Rage is seen in all skin colors.
DeleteI had someone get all crazy and driving like to force me off the road last year. White person flipping me off and yelling something. I kept driving and he kept following. So I drove over to the police station and parked. White trash kept on driving.
Yeah I judged him for his demonstrated behavior,not his skin color.
BTW no clue what set him off. He cut me off and I just slowed down. Then he tried to stop me and I drove around him. Maybe he thought I was someone else?
Crazy people are getting more common.
Failed victim selection process. It's always "them".
ReplyDeleteStellantis hesitated Dash Cam did not. Not much in the way of aimed fire and Dash Cam reverted to using suppressing fire at the end. Not a good idea with limited magazine capacity.
ReplyDeleteDash Cams split times were quick but he was just chucking bullets down range. Who knows where they ended up.
Still he won and that's what counts.
The most important take away is that Dash Cam had and was using a dash cam that allows for the actual facts to be seen and not the bullshit story of some agenda driven prosecutor. It's not a win if you survive the gun fight only to be locked away for life because some low life politician hates self defense.
ReplyDelete