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Times before. he was no stranger to the criminal justice system. the officers had told him he was under arrest. selling unpacked cigarettes in the hierarchy of crimes its not the greatest crime of the century. this is a quality of life crime, new york city, the people of new york city in the community would want addressed. they tell their local politicians, they tell their precinct commanders, i want this among other issues addressed. the police go and do that. >> you don't see excessive force in this video? to the average lay person, civilian, looks like excessive force. you have four police ...

Look at a force continuum, one of the first things you evaluate is what we would call in this case, individual factors, age, size, gender, apparent physical abili abilities. you can't also take into consideration special circumstances. you look at overall -- i mean, when you look from my perspective we look at backgrounds, training and experience of people as well, not just what you get at face value. we try to go deeper to gain a better understanding of physical abilities because you know, we can't compare joe blow and john blow because they may have completely different background, training ...

It down in law enforcement terms the aggressor or your subject and the officer. civilian terms the aggressor and the defender. okay. what you do is you look at the various levels of options available to that individual taking into consideration a wide variety of topics ranging from personal information, subject factors like their age, height, weight, things like that. moving through background training, experience, weapon availability, environment considerations. all these things come into a force continuum, which is a structured way of saying if i were to do "a," you would be permitted to do ...

Just a lower level on the force continuum that's evaluated by those being either using it or evaluating its use. so, myse certifications were th initial level. >> i want to ask you to explain force continuum. is that, explain to the jury what that is. >> it's basically, a force continuum is a systematic approach to the escalation and de-escalation of force options. it's basically looking at an event and saying that all events start, for example, with somebody being present. so, that would be one of the first things that you would look for as you begin your evaluation. who was there? how many w...

To teach the basic course. that course involves proper deployment, target areas and so forth. a similar nature to what you do with the impact weapons. it's just a lower level on the force continuous that's evaluated by those using them or evaluating its use. my instructor's certifications while at the city of riviera beach were the initial instructor level courses. >> you had mentioned a term that i presume is going to come up in your future testimony here today so i want to ask you to explain it to the jury. a concept of a force continuum. does that -- is that -- explain to the jury what that...