weapons confusion was yeah. wait until i finish the question. before april 11th? it would be mentioned in training, but it wasn t something we physically trained on. and which that you mean what? there was no training on weapons confusion. you would sit in a dark room and told to grap which weapon. i m going to go on to april 11th, 2021, a sunday, and you certainly remember that day, correct? yes. and you re in fto that day for officer lucky? yes, i was. and that day what time did you go on duty? 6:00 a.m. and was lucky on duty at that time, too? yes. and at about what did you do during the morning? if you remember? did you just do drive-around
correct? yes, he continued to fight with him. you never deployed your taser then? no. another incident in 2016, someone was not complying with commands to place them under arrest, right? i don t know what event you are talking about. in this case, there was an individual who was struggling, a female individual. she didn t want to get handcuffed and one of the officers took her down to the ground by force. you pointed your taser but did not deploy it? if that s what the document say. i don t recall the incident. you have drawn your taser and not fired it in your 26 year career? yes. all right. i want to talk more about april 11th. you were serving as an fto.
i did. and why was that? why didn t you attempt to go up the ladder like the other officers that we ve heard from? i liked my work. i enjoyed working with community. i didn t want to be in an administrative role. did you also even though you were a patrol officer and you did take part in other programs, for example, the ftl program? yes, i did. and that was field training? yes, i was a field training option offer for many years. how many years? i don t have an exact number. 10 to 15. and we learned in this court, in this case, what a field training officer does. very briefly what did you do? i would get probationers in different estimation of their training, first phase, second phase, third phase or final phase, and usually the primary phase and the final phase were always with the same fto and the
so on april 11th you were serving as an fto, right? yes. and you said that you have done that for 10 or 15 years. for many years. i don t remember when i got certified but it s been many, many years. you said on the record that your testimony was that you had knock to impart and that mentorship skills that made you suited for that job, right? yes. and so you were serving as officer lucky s fto on april 11. how long have you been his fto? i believe it would be five shifts. it would have started the monday after easter sunday? okay. but you were essentially in a supervisory position, right, serving as his fto? yes. i gooded him? that s a big responsibility, true? yes. and you have to be a good example, sort of set the stage
police work? we just did police work. we would have checked the squad car if we wouldn t have had calls right away. it was a sunday. it was a sunday. so productsly around 2:00 did you pull up in back not you, officer lucky was driving the car, right, the squad? yes. and you were the fto. where were you seated in the car? in the passenger seat. and tell the jury what you remember about first seeing the white buick on that day prodat proximately 2:00 p.m. overs lick and i were driving south on zane avenue north. we were talking about pursuit policies, doing some regular fto training, and he observed a vehicle in the turn lane with a blinker on inappropriately. and was that the white buick? yes. and did you have a