The “Street Survival” seminar Yanez attended was not the only training of this sort he received. Interestingly in addition to the familiar instruction regarding officer safety and the “sheepdog mentality,” those who attend “Bulletproof” training events are also taught about “Threats to Democracy” – an examination of “the current relationship between law enforcement and the community they are sworn to protect while also identifying the most current threats to both.” In this depiction, the public are “sheep” – to be protected and, of course, sheared as their overseers see fit. Philando Castile lay dead after being shot and killed by officer Jeronimo Yanez. Colonel and former Army Ranger who originated the now-common conceit that police and military personnel are “sheepdogs” blessed with the “gift of aggression” and who have a divine duty to deal out violence against “wolves.” “Establish, articulate, and indoctrinate.”Ĭalibre’s“Bulletproof” lectures are jointly taught by Glennon and David Grossman, a retired Army Lt. This is why police must act as evangelists to the ignorant public, catechizing them about the sacred imperative of officer safety, and the duty of citizens to submit with docility in every encounter with the state’s agents of coercion. “Does the public understand, and are they trained in the dynamics of use of force as you and I are? No!” continues the harangue. “And who judges if it is `reasonable and necessary’? It is to the officer’s standards.” “The force used has to be `reasonable and necessary,’” “Street Survival” attendees are told. The officer’s attorney insists that the mere presence of a gun was sufficient to trigger the officer’s lethal reaction – which makes sense, given that Yanez had been marinated in Calibre’s “officer safety” alarmism. This may explain why he made what appears to be a “pretext stop.” It neither explains nor justifies why he opened fire on a citizen who was compliant, and who possessed a valid carry permit. Officer Yanez reportedly believed that Castile broadly resembled a suspect in a recent armed robbery.
Anthony Police Department, which patrolled the town where the fatal traffic stop occurred. Although he had no criminal record beyond traffic misdemeanors, Castile was known to the St. Local police had certainly feasted on Philando Castile, who had been stopped 52 times over the course of 14 years, and paid thousands of dollars in citations. “But – and I’ll say this – it’s our bread and butter for enforcement.” “Traffic stops kill police officers, injure police officers – that’s a fact,” insists another lecturer. “That’s winning, ladies and gentlemen,” he declares.
“In order to accomplish this mission we need to tackle the realities and complexities of policing today for officers on the street … while placing the responsibility for winning right where it belongs – with the individual officer.”Ī brief video excerpt from a “Street Survival” course shows a presenter lecturing officers about the need to visualize shooting someone as part of the “Psychological Game” necessary to “win” encounters with what trainees are told is an implacably hostile public.
“The goal and purpose of the Calibre Press Street Survival Seminar is twofold: Keep officers alive and give them the tools to enjoy a successful career in law enforcement,” explains the company’s promotional literature. As one instructor summarized the course for the benefit of his students, “We’ve got to survive this job!” The company’s “Street Survival Seminar” overview displays a monomaniacal focus on that most important of all policy considerations, “officer safety.” It treats every police encounter as a combat situation in which only one life truly matters – that of the government’s armed emissary, not that of the citizen who is supposedly being protected and served by him.Īlthough Calibre co-owner Jim Glennon has written that viewing “police as the enemy is not a healthy or helpful position for a society to take,” the courses presented by his company relentlessly teach officers that the public is their enemy. In May of 2014, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Yanez underwent a 20-hour seminar on “Street Survival” taught by Illinois-based Calibre Press, which teaches courses on the subject to police officers nationwide. Anthony, Minnesota Police Officer who fatally shot Philando Castile, underwent “Bulletproof Warrior” officer survival indoctrination that imparts what one police trainer calls a “paranoid” and“militaristic” mindset. Officer Jeronimo Yanez (pictured), the cop who shot Philando Castile Wednesday night during a traffic stop, has claimed he was reacting to the man’s gun – not his race
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