listen we have additional units coming we're going to get you off just walk off he look tell you I got a backpack right here you can't tell me I got a backpack hey guys all you guys if you guys can exit exit please come out this side and and walk down the rail all the way to 23rd make a left walk off hey you guys in the front car get out and start getting out towards uh the main street over there I was working overtime detail uh MTA and I was assigned the Expo line uh with a partner from Olympic division uh we responded to a man with a gun call that either went on the blue line to the Expo line we approached the train that was uh slowing down and me and my partner look at each other and say okay we might be on this train as we're walking up the platform the train has stopped and then uh I do notice someone matching the description uh pacing back and forth on the train cart and you can tell the occupants in the train look terrified I told everybody on the train cart to get up and exit so now that would leave me and him in the train cart um I just thought if it would escalate at that point I didn't want uh background of civilians inside the uh the train cart at that point the mill steps out of the train stands up reaches into his pocket and end up producing a handgun at that point he points it towards his head obviously at that point we we were unholstered we give him my partner give him commands and he told us to shoot him Hey sir hey hey hey hands out of your pockets hands out of your pockets I got everybody get off the platform move get off the platform I kill myself right now you let me know what my everybody put it down to kill myself Central showed up with a with a bean bag and started deploying it we formulated a quick game plan uh to assist the officers who were at scene once we reached the officers uh we were able to see that they're giving commands for a suspect who was holding the gun to his head the bean bag was in place and I gave the Preparatory command so everybody would know hey B back ready B Bank standby ready back standby I made contact with them once he fell down he slid down some stairs still holding the gun to his head um stands up looks at us runs ends up uh all the way in figuro and Adams lays in the middle of the street with the gun to his head telling us to shoot him officer Hodge shows up and he he uh has the PA on his shop he's a signed of Southwest and he then verbally starts communicating with the suspect Mr Lis my brother let me help you out cu me me and you being Brothers right now let let me help you out man your life matters Mr LS your life matters man I don't want you to get hurt I don't want you to do anything silly you are good I can see it in you I can see it when you look at me I can see it in your eyes man every time you step up and look at me I see the goodness in you God put that in both my heart and yours I utilize everything I had in my in my my bag of tricks right like um whether it was life experiences uh on the job experiences um trying to go the religious route uh cuz I'm a man of God and I just wanted to try to reflect that with him and see if he anything was going to hook with them uh it did at a certain point um but yeah I think it was about an hour and 30 minutes I was verbalizing with them trying to get him to put down the gun and he eventually fell asleep and uh a SWAT team came in with their robot and uh they utilized the the robot and the magnet to uh remove the pistol and took him into custody without incident so it was a success I was just happy it had a good ending happy that think nobody was hurt that we were able to take somebody off the street that that was armed with the weapon that could have caused harm to somebody else so that's that's the most important thing yes it was a team effort but they're the ones that doing the work I was just lucky enough to be there to direct and make sure that everything turned out fine it it is what it is I I'm getting this award I appreciate it but it was just me doing my job I think officers do this type of work uh on a daily basis I mean we're talking all our divisions traffic everybody so I feel like there's incidents like this that are occurring uh everywhere throughout our city so so I feel like uh there's there's a lot of other good stuff that goes on said that the LAPD does [Music] oh [Applause] [Music]