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Description
This motion is a recreation of a shooting
scenario with a suspect running away from an
officer with the weapon in their strong arm
pointing the weapon backwards on their strong side,
toward the officer, firing at the officer and then
coming back into a full forward running position.
The subject in the study was instructed to run away
from the fictional officer, point the gun back,
pull the trigger and then bring the weapon back
into a bent arm running position, and to do this as
quickly as possible. Because suspects in the street
could shoot one or more rounds at an officer before
returning to a full forward running motion, the
timing of the movement was begun after the subject
pulled the trigger and then moved into the drop off
position where the barrel of the weapon would no
longer be pointed directly at the officer and
subsequently no longer be an immediate, direct
threat. This drop off position was the start of the
return of the arm to a running movement and
happened in different ways. Sometime the subjects
simply turned the barrel as they started to bring
the weapon forward and into the arm position for
running. Sometimes they dropped their hand by a few
inches or twisted it away. The timing of the motion
ended when the subject had returned to a square
back running position. The square back position is
one where the subject would be moving in a straight
line directly away from the officer and in the same
direction as the officer would be facing. The
square back would be at an 80-90 degree shoulder
angle to the lateral plane of the movement of the
subject. In this study, in almost all subjects, the
hip or waist was often square back to the officer
for the full motion of rotating and shooting, and
did not shift from this position, so the
measurement for this study was done on only the
shoulder axis. Even in the full 90-degree square
back position almost all subjects had a slight
forward lean to their upper body. The angle of
forward lean was not measured in this study. All
actions were completed and the measurements were
done within 20 yards of the subject starting to
run.
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