let's move from riviera beach. where did you go after that?> the next agency i was with for a very short period of time was the jupiter police department where i was assigned, again, to road patrol duties. >> okay. how long were you there? >> that was just under a year. i was there just under a year. and during that time, i had the opportunity also to take on a lead role as a defensive tactics instructor. when i was recruited by the city of jupiter, i started and immediately began being presented with opportunities to bring the skills and things i had learned from riviera beach to the jupiter police department. i began training with some of their other lead trainers on defensive tactics techniques and various things dealing with defensive tactics. >> so in layman's terms then, defensive tactics, is -- how somebody would defend themselves against somebody else? >> it's fighting. layman's terms, it's fightinging. >> fighting in a way that men myselves injury to yourself? >> absolutely. the reason was initially termed defensive tactics is in law

i began law enforcement career with the city of riviera beach. i performed duties primarily for road patrol. also offered the opportunity to obtain an instructor certification for defense of tactics, which is the lead instructor's position for force related hand-to-hand type training. i went to subsequent training courses for oc, which is a pepper spray training and also impact weapons. and i managed to become the elite instructor for defensive tactics with the city of riviera beach, while i was there. >> sir, if i might. i know some of the terms from having spoken to you before and my experience doing this, but i want to make sure that the jury understands when we use term like impact weapons. >> oh, sure. >> if you could, as you go through it, i may interrupt you once or twice more along the way. if you could advise the jury what you mean and the science behind impact weapons? >> sure. for the impact weapons we're talking about the batons. anything from a side handled baton to what most commonly carried now which is an expandable or collapsible

the raindrops are near middle river, riviera beach, crossing the bay. and chestertown have a light showers. there are more light showers on the radar, very light in nature, and light rain is pushing its way toward ocean city. moving toward substantial showers to hagerstown and east of cumberland. more showers are building into garrett county. they will pass through. the atmosphere will become more unstable and the showers could turn into thunderstorms, something we have to watch out for. 79 at the airport. the temperature has fallen after the rain moved through. 80 downtown. 80 in parkton. you can see how much warmer it is along the eastern shore because they have not had the rain. it will bring the temperature down and then they will bounce back in the afternoon. much colder in the mountains for that reason -- cloud cover and rain through the morning. many areas will reach the upper 80's, but if you get a lot of rain, it will not go up that much. otherwise, breaks for sunshine and an isolated thunderstorm around 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.. isolated would