for this kid. that hug, that compassion for minutes afterwards is probably going to change this kid s life forever for the good. mm-hmm. and hopefully others see this and take something good away from this encounter with this young man. coach lowe is amazing. we don t see the exact moment that the gun is taken from the student. but i mean grabbing a shotgun out of someone s hands, not an easy thing to do. no, it s not. but coach lowe, obviously he appears to be in great physical condition. we know he played wide receiver for the ducks. he s the coach at the school. but i ll tell you something. this is what coaches do. coaches understand when there s a time to be a warrior, when there s a time to be tough, to be tough on kids, but then they can take that hat off and put on the hat of compassion. and as we ve seen with coach lowe in this video, that s exactly what he did. there are opportunities to make good things happen, and he recognized that in both of these
school intending to use the gun to take his own life. when this happened back in may, reports said the coach tackled the student, but new video released by officials show something very different. after the student enters a classroom with the shotgun, video footage shows that coach lowe backing out of that classroom with the shotgun in his right hand. then with his other arm, he holds the student just a little bit away from him. and that s when another staff member enters. you see him. there you ll see him come in a moment. there he is right there. then he takes the gun away. and then a moment of embrace. you can see it is far from a tackle. the coach wraps his arms around the student s arms, and then he rubs the student s back, and he holds him close. coach lowe says it was all instinct. pretty crazy situation, you know, in a fraction of a second, i analyzed everything really fast. i saw the look in his face, look in his eyes, looked at the gun.
compassion that he demonstrated for this kid. that hug, that compassion for minutes afterwards is probably going to change this kid s life forever for the good. mm-hmm. and hopefully others see this and take something good away from this encounter with this young man. coach lowe is amazing. we don t see the exact moment that the gun is taken from the student. but i mean grabbing a shotgun out of someone s hands, not an easy thing to do. no, it s not. but coach lowe, obviously he appears to be in great physical condition. we know he played wide receiver for the ducks. he s the coach at the school. but i ll tell you something. this is what coaches do. coaches understand when there s a time to be a warrior, when there s a time to be tough, to be tough on kids, but then they can take that hat off and put on the hat of compassion. and as we ve seen with coach lowe in this video, that s exactly what he did. there are opportunities to make good things happen, and he recognized that in
track coach keanon lowe disarms a student with a shotgun. the student walks into a classroom at parkrose high school intending to use the gun to take his own life. when this happened back in may, reports said the coach tackled the student, but new video released by officials show something very different. after the student enters a classroom with the shotgun, video footage shows that coach lowe backing out of that classroom with the shotgun in his right hand. then with his other arm, he holds the student just a little bit away from him. and that s when another staff member enters. you see him. there you ll see him come in a moment. there he is right there. then he takes the gun away.
and then a moment of embrace. you can see it is far from a tackle. the coach wraps his arms around the student s arms, and then he rubs the student s back, and he holds him close. coach lowe says it was all instinct. pretty crazy situation, you know, in a fraction of a second, i analyzed everything really fast. i saw the look in his face, look in his eyes, looked at the gun. i realized it was a real gun and my instincts took over. here to discuss now is neil franklin. neil, so good to have you on to talk about this. what are officers trained to do in a situation like this? did the coach do everything right, you think? oh, he definitely did. i can t think of anything that he did not do right. it s acting quickly. he s unarmed, but he recognized something. he recognized something in this kid. as we know, most of these kids are troubled, and they re dealing with some emotional issues, and he recognized that. he recognized the kid was armed. he recognized an opportunity to do somethi