[randog]

Cochran, a five-year veteran and member of the department’s elite S.W.A.T. team...

Sounds like the "elite" SWAT team needs to put their fancy gear aside and practice some basic hand-to-hand combat techniques.

[xsrdx]

Sounds like the "elite" SWAT team needs to put their fancy gear aside and practice some basic hand-to-hand combat techniques.

My guess is the perp was a large, confident fighter. Shrinking violets don't usually tackle the police.

Cops are good at ground fighting and submission holds, but a serious brawler with a size advantage is a formidable adversary.

[Nov3]

Sounds like the "elite" SWAT team needs to put their fancy gear aside and practice some basic hand-to-hand combat techniques.

It doesn't matter how much training you have there are some bad people out there. I am sure the keyboard rambos here could have handled the situation easily but the rest of us we might have been in trouble.

[Melas]

Sounds like the "elite" SWAT team needs to put their fancy gear aside and practice some basic hand-to-hand combat techniques.

Sounds like he held his own. It's some kind of hollywood fantasy myth where the good guys easily win all the hand to hand. Truth is that the average cop is way beyond his physical prime, and the average thug is right there in those primo 18-25 years. At 41, I realize that I'm no nowhere near the fighter I was at 21.