Norwegian paramedic here. Any penetrating injuries to the head or neck are difficult to deal with, especially GSWs as they may have a weird trajectory, but first aid follows the same principles and priorities as always: X: Exsanguation - We need to control any life-threatening bleedings and control any c-spine injuries. That's difficult to do here without compromising the airway, so we need to secure that first. A: Airway - Secure the airway with an ETI - after the airway is secured, and if I were alone here, I'd go back to putting pressure on the injury. B: Breathing - Ensure the lungs are ventilated C: Circulation - If alone, I'd just focus on chest compressions once I've controlled the bleeding. Otherwise, get IV/IO access and push fluids. D: Disability - She seems fairly unconscious at this point so nothing to care about there. E: Exposure - Head-to-toe exam, thermo-management.
Thank you so much for this comment! This is incredibly valuable information that's only gleaned from training and experience 😊 Thank you for enriching our comments section! Pinning this to the top.
I live in the US and once a month I do emt training where I'm a patient and I aid the students in their final exam but my mom was a RN when I was growing up so I've learned a lot of medical stuff
Anderson always seems so mild mannered and level-headed throughout the show so if they were going to kill her off I’m glad they let her go out like an absolute badass
Anderson was never mild mannered, she just chose to be nice. It's established pretty early in an episode with Chen that she's legitimately more of a real badass than Bradford. She joined the LAPD after 2 tours in Afghanistan and rose in the ranks but can't agree more that it's one of the most badass scenes in the show
That was a rough episode, I didn’t expect the show to kill her Edit to add, I truly appreciate the emotionality you showed at the end talking cops killed in the line of duty and the victims of gang violence.
We experienced both while police officers so it hits us a little closer to home. It's a hard part of the job and a big reason why we always stress that the job is not for everyone and should be taken with the utmost preparation and caution. Thank you for the comment 😊
@@OnlyCopsI think that's one of the reasons why I like this show so much sure it has its problems in the later seasons But that first fews seasons , just feel so real When a character is Killed off You are genuinely feeling like What the fuck just happened A pretty good representation of the chaos that is well being a police officer
When I was with APD, any time someone higher than a Sgt responded to any call, at least 2 cars rolled with them. There's zero percent chance a Captain calls in an open door / in progress and they don't send everybody.
they adressed that in a previous episode where the Captain was angry bcs other units showed up without them calling reinforcement, that's why here no one else showed up
@@MsVale1977 they showed up after Officer Chen out out the all clear and here she did not update dispatch after entering the house so after a few minutes they should have pulled up at that location not wait until literal nightfall lol
Yeah, it rains in LA, and because of filming schedules a large number of episodes of each season are filmed during the coldest and wettest times of the year. A lot of Baywatch's episodes where you see sunny beaches were filmed in December through February and the girls wore puffy jackets in stood in front of heaters between takes
I was a correctional deputy at my county jail for two years. My body camera never once showed me being abusive or using excessive force, it did however show that the inmates were lying. I will admit it did catch me cussing under my breath lmao.
For reference, "winter" in southern California is December to February, also called the "rainy season". During February, which is the wettest month, there's an average of 5 days when it rains. So rain isn't exactly unheard of for the time of year this episode would have filmed, but they must have had a bit of bad luck.
I'm training as a dispatcher in indiana. We check officers status 2 minutes after arrival and every 4 minutes after that. If they don't respond we give 5 seconds then we ask again if they don't respond the patrol supervisor advises code 10 which is our code for officer needs backup immediately. I would like to hear more of the dispatch center checking status in this show then they actually do
We had a similar policy for traffic stops from our dispatchers. I'm the day and age of bodycams and policies like these, this is so incredibly unlikely to happen its hilarious to see on a show
You feel it just seeing on officer die anywhere in America. Someone suited up just let you did that day and they didn't get to come home, it a hard thing to explain to people
He might not be on property records but his address is definitely in the system from employment records and his driver's license. I'm sure the gang had someone who can find it.
I “love” (for a lack of a better word) that you can see both officers instantly get emotional with Anderson her death, must have hit home. God bless you.
We definitely saw one too many of those ceremonies and it's a sobering reminder that we were so fortunate to not have to give our lives for the job. God bless the ones who did and their families
I was thinking about being a cop while driving on the interstate. A car of hippies was behind me. Their front wheel broke. The car flipped and rolled. Pulled over to offer aid. Cops showed up 10 minutes later. Then they realized the five yo girl was missing. There was no place she could have been but under the car. I kept my day job.
Your experience with the kids that had cops who died kinda reminds me of Boot Camp when a ‘Nam vet (marine sniper) was telling us about his time in the marines and just how he lost friends. The worst part is when he told us he hated going back home. He said the worst orders you could get was you’re going back home, that he’d rather stay in ‘Nam because you’d get spit in and called baby killer at home.
If self-defense is legal under a life-or-death situation then surely driving under age to save a life isn't as big of a problem plus the worst they can do is juvie
I just want to say how sorry I am that the two of you had to live in that situation where so many good police officers where killed. I have a deep respect for the police. I’ve known good cops and really bad ones but I know overall we are so lucky to have police officers risking their lives protecting us everyday in this country.
Right? I've been Russian nesting doll'ing my food service gloves since I was 6 years old. Its wild how many people learned about basic hygiene and common sense around health during the depths of COVID, who didn't know before.
This is a beautiful reaction to one of my favorite episodes in the series. I like hearing your own personal experiences and how they relate to the show. I wish y’all would ease up on West though 😭😭😭 side note: you said “you don’t need to back up for narcan, chill out”, taking the kid back is a smart move actually. He’s not going to get hit by the narcan or anything, but you never know how someone will react after narcan. I’ve had people become extremely combative, start projectile vomiting, start seizing, etc... remember using narcan is going to effectively send them into withdrawal. having the kid a few steps back to make sure he doesn’t get hit by anything like that was a smart move. (i’m an ER nurse btw)
We have actually really enjoyed the show so far and we're actually crushed to see what happened to the Captain. West gets our hate due to how poorly they wrote his character (the actor seems like a pretty okay guy). I'm with you that pulling the kid back isn't a bad idea, we are probably just a little jaded 😅
Forget about the 100 round scar mag thats somehow the size of a 20 round one, I wanna know how he managed that .308 full auto recoil from the hip so well
They killed off the captain to apparently show "anything can happen and you shouldn't get attached to characters" and then proceeded to kill off only one other character in the next 5 seasons. Rendering their point pretty much moot.
I mean, combat veteran, respectable and honorable boss and public servant, dedicated and loyal to her duty, caring and kind to even the lowest ranked officer in the department. Never treating their issues as trivial or beneath her, She was one of the best most honorable characters of the show. And She will be sorely missed. She appears in one other episode where they are chasing a suspect in a Grave yard, The suspect is arrested and Nolan and Bishop go to visit her as the suspect is in their shop. And she has been LAPD for 15 years (each Bar on her lower arm is Five Years) 5, 10, 15.
What's unclear to me is why if the LAPD could hit the southern front that hard in one day they waited for the greenlight on Nolan instead of doing that already
If I had to guess, i would say that LAPD is operating on the assumption that hitting those businesses would only cost southern front a week of operations and then would be set up again in a new spot. That new spot would be unknown for a while which means any intelligence to be gleamed from knowing about it would be missed. Thus its not worth the time and effort when more subtle longer term actions can be set up against higher echelons of the organization through observation and control Please keep in mind I'm not an expert in law enforcement.
They said in the episode if they keep hitting businesses like southern front more would just pop up in their place although idk how it works in real life im not a police officer
For some context if you missed it regarding Captain Anderson, she was a marine before becoming a cop(I believe she was a staff sergeant? Maybe lieutenant? Been a minute since I saw the episode it was mentioned in) that’s why she’s such a badass
The thing that confused me, Why are you keeping it state-wide? As soon as a cop is targeted, all bets are off. Use every possible law in the book that you can legally use without infringing on their basic rights. "When a cop goes down, All bets are off" - Henry 'Pop' Reagan. (Blue Bloods) One of his best qoutes.
58:12 "He killed my captain!!" Always breaks me and makes me feel so bad for Sergeant Grey, he is one of the characters that has had the most taken from him.
They didn’t watch that part but I think the reason why nobody “checked” on them was because she told them not to. Something happened earlier and like 10 squad cars came and she said they should focus on other things or something like that.
Cole WOULD probably be killed, but in prison, and not by cops, but because otherwise his father would be seen as weak. Gave an order only for his son to directly disobey him
you're mostly right about the drone thing, drones over 249 grams need to be registered and u need licensure with the faa, u can fly at a max of 400 agl unless you have special permission and you need to file and get a clearance with the faa and the atc if ur flying in the vicinity of controlled airspaces.
The Auditing Community Doesn't hate the police as a person, who's hung out with people like Direct D, LongIslandAudit, The Roaming Stoner, they don't hate police they want reform. They want proper training, they want the cops to actually know the law.
I agree that the concept of auditing is done in the spirit of reform and we are firm believers that police are and should be public servants. But, the same way there are plenty of examples of bad cops doing their job dishonorably or out right unlawfully; there is a decent part of the auditing community that is equally ignorant of the law and simply trying to goat officers into confrontations for lawsuits or click baiting content. If you watch our lives you'll see that we spend more time calling out bad polcy/policing than we do covering puff pieces. We catch more actual misconduct on police bodycam footage than most auditors do with cellphones. I'd like to see more auditors come to the table with solutions now that we collectively have enough complaints. Feel free to DM us for a conversation, we are all ears
In honor of captain Andersen, I recommend watching season 1 episode 10 where she makes herself and sergeant gray ride with Lucy and Nolan for a day ( just a short reaction video 🙏🏾)
On the topic of CPR in this situation. The purpose of CPR is to pump blood around to vital organs (heart and brain) because the heart isn’t doing that effectively itself. In this situation where the captain has either : a) lost a lot of blood b) sustained an airway injury +/- bleeding into the airway CPR is unlikely to be too helpful on its own without stopping major bleeding and securing the airway. Nolan is limited to compressing external bleeding only. (And it didn’t look like there as a tonne of that). So yeah. The CPR medically wasn’t realistically going to make much of a difference but from Nolan’s perspective, can’t blame him for attempting EVERYTHING possible to save his captain (who had just saved his own life).
@@evergreentree8042 Could well be. Would be really interesting to see a directors/writers/actors commentary on the scene. Either way. Very powerful scene and hits like a sledgehammer.
"There's almost no valor in law enforcement" Fuck that, knowing that you can be shived by a crack addict in an alleyway or drive-byd by some street gang just cuz they're garbage people AND STILL going to work every single day takes so much more balls than being in a wrong place at a wrong time and dying in a way people remember you. Thanks for keeping the peace, boys.
Thanks 😊 Our point was that most the the acts you do will go unnoticed and under appreciated. Similar to Vietnam vets you will out right be hated by some for what you do. If you're doing it for the right reasons it won't matter, but the live changing/preserving WILL be appreciated by those you help and those who understand what you do. And that is enough
Watching this Memorial Day weekend. Got to the part talking about dying in the line of duty. I served 5 years in the USMC with my end of service coming 8 months before 9/11 happened. While I was still in several men I served along side died in the line of duty. I was a helicopter crew chief (enlisted air crew that flew on cargo helicopters almost every day) for CH-53Es, and I was paid hazardous duty pay though is was during peace time service. Because flying has associated dangers. The men I served with who died all died due to aviation crashes where they had been on board and the aircraft crashed with them on board. One man was a SSgt in the skids community (AH-1/UH-1) who I had deployed on a MEU with. About a month after getting back from that deployment he was onboard a UH-1 Huey that crashed in the Pacific off the California coast. All hands lost. I do not recall if they ever even recovered his body for burial. Two others I served with were part of another H-53 USMC squadron I had been attached to while waiting on my own unit to come back from Okinawa. The personnel move, the aircraft stay and they send a group of people in advance of the rest of the unit to ensure a smooth change over. A month or two after the others had gone off to Okinawa one of the helicopters crashed into the ocean on a NVG flight. Pilot lost track of the horizon and flew straight into the water, all hands lost. I don't have survivors guilt, but part of me resents not even remembering their names. Edit: I'm posting this to say that death in the line of duty is common even in peacetime for military members too. It sucks when it happens and it's never a good thing. I often say that cops are the only people outside of soldiers serving in wartime who get shot at just for wearing a uniform. The only difference is that a cops "war zone" is right outside their front door 24/7/365. So, much respect to those who wear the badge, and wear it with honor. RIP to all who served and never got to go home.
Thank you so much for your service and we will do everything we can to honor the sacrifices of your brothers and sisters. Every time I see a flag at half mass, it's a sobering reminder of how lucky we were to only have to serve
Yes, it does rain in L.A., just very rarely. Now, snowing, that would be absurd. "I should have kept that Ring Camera footage." ... I am sure that Ring has kept it given how many times they've, illegally and without warrant, handed over footage to law enforcement that had been deleted by the user. While I agree with you, I believe the Captain riding with Nolan was a "I would never assign anyone to do something I wouldn't do myself" type move. Basically, taking not just full responsibility but full risk of the situation if things go wrong.
Snow in LA would be wild 🤣 Ring is definitely notorious for sharing private footage with police. I still don't like the idea of the captain stepping in only because she will not be as sharp as the people already on patrol everyday
18:28 Having the boy step back was probably a good idea. You never know how the person will react when coming out of an OD and may start swinging in anger or panic. ✌️💙
Love hearing y’all’s reactions to this one. This is tied with Day of Death for me as the most moving episodes. Incredibly heavy but also triumphant. O Captain my Captain 🫡
Loving these reaction videos! I don't know your guys' whole story and or how schooling works in the U.S. (as a 🇨🇦), but has Josh ever thought of teaching? The way in which he articulates the realities of policing/service is a great skill. I could see him teaching a college or university course.
Thank you for the kind words 😊 we use this channel to teach in a way but haven't considered it as a profession. I guess we should maybe try guest speaking or at least giving presentations maybe 😁
New to your channel - just subscribed. Watching your faces during the scene where the Captain is killed, and the fall out from that, it was easy to see that both of you have seen things in your careers. I appreciate the thoughtful commentary during the show, and the wrap up after the episode ended. Great job! I look forward to seeing more from you both (and there's already a whole bunch of content I get to enjoy while waiting for new stuff).
I'd say going in order works best, 1x16 means they're a bit away from 2x11 but it's gonna be worth it, 2x11 is a crazy episode though and I am really looking forward to that reaction
Re: no one coming to check status. They already put out over the air that they had signs of forced entry, and they were making entry to investigate, shouldn’t additional units start automatically?
"Transparency" - There are many PDs out there that still get around transparency by refusing BWC access "because there is an ongoing investigation" and doing the "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" trick. Then prosecutors refuse to prosecute cops because they have to work with the PD every day. Transparency still has a long way to go.
You're 100% right, I don't mind the ongoing investigation portion (just because some of that info only the suspect would know like murder weapons and sequence of events). But at the end of it all, everything should be public record and police departments should never do criminal investigations on themselves or their own people. It's too big of a conflict of interest
I attended a Polytechnic High School (job/career oriented), GPA based, basically meaning you had to want to be there. We had no gang violence on campus and only two major fights my entire four years. The school came down hard to ensure it wouldn't continue to happen (for instance, my freshman year two girls fought over a boy, their friends jumped in, a teacher was injured, and the school ended up suspending 50 students. They did not mess around). That said, we did have a gang related death because it was Fresno, CA in the 90s: a 15 yr old Hmong student. His mother didn't understand English and didn't understand what was happening when a punk tried to take her purse. The idiot criminal decided to shoot her instead of letting go of the purse and her son stepped in the way. I still remember his empty desk across the room when we found out. Students planted a tree in his name and it's massive now.
Been waiting for this episode since you started reacting to the first episode! Sooo excited and hope you react to the rest of the seasons, also would love if you could edit the volume of the clips of the show to match the volume of your commentary, i keep doing these ones ⬇↙↘↖⬆↗
The wierdest part of the scene where nolan and the captain are being tailed by the brown van. After it splits off, you can see a second brown van identical pull up in the rear view and follow them. You can see it on the glass of the buildings 2. If you were spooked by one brown van, 2 identical brown vans following you. Should send off every alarm in 30 miles.
My uncle is/was a cop in Chicago (He talked about retiring a thousand times so I think by now he's retired.) and took us to a mall to go to a movie, Gangs of New York, for timeframe, not that it matters. But my uncle came back to get us and drove in circles, doubled back, SWITCHED the car we were in, then took us home. Didn't think anything of it, cause our cool cop uncle was driving us home. Yeeeeeeeeeeears later he tells us casually that he's pretty sure he was being followed, so that was something he did regularly.
I always check and have passed my house or whole ass neighborhood a few times when I was convinced I was being followed. Good on him foe staying vigilant 😁
@@OnlyCops I'm guessing the day it sunk in that you don't have to be glued to your rear views any more felt great. (Or, once installed, are you ever able to let your on guard instinct go?).
I actually have family members in El Salvador who are cops and military. There is definitely a drastic difference of running things. The proceedings to organized crime have been dealt with extreme measures (which is fair given how things were). I recently went on a visit and the amount of cops and military I saw patrolling on foot every minute of everyday was uneasy yet understandable. Still a beautiful place lol
It so incredibly sad that so much of South America is rich with culture and such a beautiful land but is full of corruption and crime. Hopefully we will see a better future soon there, the people of all of those countries deserve better
I have always wonder what happend to Astrid, the woman who started it all. She put a greenlight on a cop that got a police captain killed. What is the "normal" way that would be handled ? I mean does she get protected in prison or killed by gang members?
Hey editor! If it is possible, could you please add subtitles for the videos? Cause sometimes with their American accent it is tough to understand what Josh and Bill are saying. And they make some really great jokes, I'd like to follow along. The subs that RU-vid offers also get confused between overlapping dialogues. But only if it is not too much work! Love the channel!
Going through the body cam is not always relaiable, LAPD seems to have an issue of malfunctioning cams as often they don't work, no sound, no video, don't turn on, turn off. Also LACSD was given money to buy it but did not buy a single one for almost a decade
@@OnlyCops Oh they help, and based on the LAPD's records, they will clear the officer more often then they indict the officer. It's reached the point here that if the camera "malfunctions" it's almost always a sign that the something happened that the officers does not want seen
58:30 Big Midas was in total fear and humiliation that his son killed a captain over a Small thing, Anderson is right, Cole is probably gonna get whacked by his father
Jesus that young lady going ballistic on the valet. I literally could not even see the scratch Officer Nolan was referring to. Though considering who we later learn she is affiliated with. I would not be too surprised if racism was a factor in her attempt to bust the valet. He did look asian.
