A Crippling Shotgun Ambush: Then a Humble Flex-Cuf to the Rescue!

摘要

Is a Flex-Cuf good for anything besides temporary restraint? How about saving a severely wounded officer's life? For Deputy Ed Martin, one of those simple little nylon strips became the ultimate example of the old Street Survival® mantra, "Improvise, Adapt and Overcome." On a graveyard shift that began quietly last June 30, a surprise shotgun blast from an offender who had already murdered three people tore into Martin's left arm, ruptured an artery and sent him reeling toward the brink of death. "If it wasn't for that Flex-Cuf," he told PoliceOne recently, "we wouldn't be having this conversation."