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The naked rear choke and it's uses..
Coming in to work today I felt something was bound to happen a wee bit out of line.
I started the shift promptly at 9PM and hopped in my partners squad car for the daily routine.
After handling a usual amount of calls for service we decided to go enforce a corner we’ve been working on clearing for the past several weeks.
Almost daily we’d go to that corner and arrest every single person violating the law, ie: Loitering; Drinking Alcohol in front of the gas station; carrying concealed weapon; selling / possessing any form of narcotics or contraband, ect..
Tonight, after weeks of arresting everything that moved the corner only had two patrons on it. Amazing what a little focused pro-active police work can accomplish.
These specific people had been given ‘Trespass’ warnings from myself and my partner on several occasions and tonight was their night to take ‘the ride’.
The first subject, a man in his 40’s was loitering around waiting for the local crack cocaine dealer to come by to sell him his fix. What he didn’t know was that the dealer he was waiting for was still sitting in county jail from when I arrested him the previous night. So much for high hopes.
I arrested him for ‘Trespass after warning’.
While I was there, the second patron was also sitting outside only several feet from our first arrestee. I arrested her immediately for the same thing, ‘Trespass after warning’. While going through her purse to inventory her belongings I found a small plastic Vodka bottle (50mL) with the usual cut holes so it was now effectively a crack pipe.
To add insult to injury, the crack cocaine residue was still blantantly visible and the burn marks didn’t give her any help avoiding the next two obvious charges, ‘Possession of Cocaine, Under, 1/10th’ and ‘Possession of Paraphernalia’. Petty charges to say the least but it would get her off the street for a longer period of time as those charges are felonies, which furthers our cause of cleaning up the district, one corner at a time.
A gal on my squad also picked up an arrest so I offered over the radio to transport him for her. Apparently there was a situation about him being extremely hostile so my sergeant preferred my partner and I to take him because we’ve proven ourselves more then capable of handling any hand to hand engagements and in case this fella decided to get violent we had the skill to counter and contain any threat he could throw at us.
The minute her subject got into the back of our patrol car with our two other arrestees, he went crazy. He was screaming for the entire duration of the ride to the county jail everything from ‘Ill kill you’ to ‘I cant wait for you to take these cuffs off so I can beat your asses’.
As always, I thought to myself, “Its always the people that scream the loudest that have the smallest bite”. I’ve seen it a hundred times. The same vocalization leads to empty threats and are followed up with nothing but more vocalization when they’re uncuffed in the booking area of the jail and have easy access to us to backup their threats.
Let me start of with some background of why he was arrested. This man got into a traffic crash with a couple that spoke no english. He ran them off the road and then at gun point demanded their money (yes, a robbery). A Sergeant responded first since he was nearby the call as it went out as an emergency call in progress. The Sergeant that responded immediately requested emergency backup because the guy was extremely aggressive and screaming he wanted to fight as many Cops as he could.
So, we got to the jail and started the booking process on our calm arrestees, saving this angry 24 year old for last, ‘just in case’.
After getting the calm ones out of the way I uncuffed our fine citizen and he didn’t do a single thing. He talked a lot of game but didn’t take any action. Problem was, we were only on the first step of booking. We still had to impound his property at the property receiving room which was down a long narrow hallway far away from the Corrections Officer staff. It is basically a mano e mano setting.
At the property window he started up his game talking again. “I want you *****‘s to start something, I dare you punk mother*******s”, he snarled. I wasn’t taking any bait from this moron, there are a ton of video cameras all over that building and my job wasn’t worth this fool.
I said, “You need to calm down, if you’re going to do something then do it, otherwise sign your property receipt and shut up.”
He didn’t shut up but he signed the paper.
Now that the 2nd process was over, came the long hallway walk back to the main booking area where we drop off the prisoner into Correction Officers custody.
Following standard operating procedure I escorted the prisoner from one area to another by grabbing his arm and maintaining control of his actions until he was out of my custody.
My partner was following about five feet behind us. We got about halfway down the hallway when the subject said, “Get the **** off me” and pulled his arm out of my grasp. I told him “You need to relax, we’re almost done” and grabbed his arm again and kept on walking. This time he decided he was going to make his move. He quickly pulled his arm out of my grasp and shoulder rushed me into the nearby wall.
Unfortunately for him I’ve fought many people in my career so far and most have been twice his size or larger.
Before making contact with the wall I grabbed his right arm and with my hand on his wrist and my other hand on the top of his arms I took his momentum and made it into an arm bar take down.
During the heat of the moment I forgot that we were only a foot or so away from the wall, so this reflex counter action effectively threw him chest first into the wall.
He followed up with an elbow at the fastest speed he could muster headed for my face but once again, I’ve fought my share of battles and knew an opening when I saw one.
I easily bypassed his attempt at a second battery on me and immediately got him into rear naked choke. Basically, using the wall as my floor I pinned both of his legs while putting one arm around the front of his neck and the other around the rear forming a tight seal around the two major blood arteries leading to the brain. What this move causes is a lack of blood flow from the brain and effectively makes the blood pool and pool quickly.
This extra blood in the brain basically short circuits the brain and the person having the move done on them within seconds is unconscious with no idea how they ended up on the floor.
For all his talking about kicking the crap out of my partner and I, he didn’t last more then 6 seconds from his point of attack to his unconscious body face down on the floor with me still holding him until help arrived to cuff him, again.
My partner barely had time to assist as the fight was over almost as fast as it began. He arrived in time to grab the subjects limp left arm and then all I saw was a wave of green bodies flood around me.
The Correction Officers rushed in to help and also arrived seconds to late. They jumped on him and took over for my partner and I.
This would be the second time in 6 months I put someone to sleep inside the county jail.
My sergeant and lieutenant responded to the jail because I was now a victim in a crime. I charged the subject with ‘Battery on a LEO inside a Jail Facility’ which is a Felony to add on his other Felonies.
There was a pizza waiting for me when I got back to the station.
When you’re in a brotherhood that not only enforces the law at any costs and maintains the safety of the general public on a daily on and off duty basis, you also get friends that care for your well being and know what will cheer you up after a hard night at work. The Officers you work with are an extension of your family. Ones your close with love you in the same way Jesus loves us. Unconditionally and would die to save us. Its quite a bond we have and to see a close squad in action is a beautiful thing.
I enjoyed my slices of pizza with my brothers and called it a night.
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