Over in 2 Seconds: 25 Apr 2026
Many of us have seen the video I’m referencing in this post. Although it’s only part of the picture, if offers some very real and immediately relevant lessons for security professionals.
Category: Half-baked Analyses
If you think you get the whole story from a video–even the complete, raw, unfiltered footage–you are worse off than uninformed. In this era of polarized, 20-second sound-byte analyses, towns have been burned to the ground by angry mobs incensed by what some pundit told them they saw. That said, there are sometimes valuable lessons we can learn, if we keep an open mind, and be mindful that what we see on the screen is rarely, if ever, the whole story.
A Case Study in Comorbidity
As we approached the 4th anniversary of George Floyd’s tragic and unnecessary death on 25 May 2020, pundits on opposite sides of what Lawrence Kasdan called “The Grand Canyon” still separating too many Americans of different colors rolled out the same diametrically opposed versions of the event. I was not there, but as both a law enforcement Use of Force instructor AND a 30+ year EMT, I think there are lessons here that can prevent repeating the mistakes of the past–IF we heed them.