I say it all the time if you're in your
car in a defensive encounter it is
usually your best tool to protect you
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lesson out of weld County in Colorado in
the United States here we have a dash
cam of an assault by multiple attackers
that's pretty scary dash cam here shows
this guy hasn't taken great care of his
car but you can see this other guy here
has is you know given him the one
fingered salute out the window and and
we don't know exactly what was going on
ahead of time but clearly these guys had
had some kind of a road rage incident
and now the guys gonna pull in front of
him and start to slow down and stop him
on the road now our driver in the car
obviously is giving him some space and
trying to figure out what to do and as
they start to get out of the car here
our driver starts to think about going
around him but chooses not to then the
passenger isn't right now is gonna
actually throw what looks like a beer
bottle at him to me and then come around
towards him and open up his driver's
door we're not gonna be able to see that
but the news story I've got linked in
the description says that they actually
pulled him out of the car beat him
pretty good the driver there and add a
baseball bat goes after the windshield a
couple times here now I'm not sure what
that was from the passenger there what
he's holding his hands out in front
whether he's acting like he has a gun or
whatever and wants to fight the guy but
when the door opens they're gonna beat
him up pretty good I sped it up just for
the sake of time then those guys are
gonna get in their car and everything
that I've seen from the news story says
they're still looking for them
scary stuff indeed there and maybe
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single day out of today's video I want
to talk about using your car in your
self-defense I also want to talk about
the dangers of multiple attackers and
when a threat goes from merely physical
to deadly so of course road rage is
stupid friends that's the first lesson
out of this one all day every day road
rage is dumb do not participate
let people go don't get into ego battles
on the road
secondly we got to talk about the
vehicles here okay so this guy pulls in
front and I do like that the drivers
giving him a significant amount of space
that guy might be brake checking him
otherwise or whatever but he gives them
a lot of space and slows as that guy
slows now of course once this guy comes
to a stop nothing good is happening here
friends and you got to recognize
de-escalation escape and avoidance is
your best bet
notice that our driver had started to
think about edging around him but it
decided against it now you might say
well where was he gonna go I don't know
where he's gonna go but he's gonna get
on the phone with 911 and use that
vehicle to escape in most in incidents
involving your vehicle your vehicle is
your best tool and so you have to be
willing to use it
that means escaping out of this problem
as soon as these guys get out whether
that's hitting reverse running a quick J
turn and getting out of there as fast as
you can or wait until they get out and
running past them in the car even if
that means taking his driver's side door
off because the guy now has a baseball
bat
notice here that these two guys getting
out without multiple attackers one of
which has a baseball bat in his hand may
not even be able to see in that moment
that it's a baseball bat but clearly a
stick of some kind now we have two guys
who are armed who are coming at you who
have made road rage so we might ask in
this moment it would deadly force be
authorized well you know again can you
make an objective reasonable argument
that there's a deadly threat not while
you're in your car and the doors are
locked probably your better bet is to
get the heck out of there besides you
don't want to shoot through the
windshield that's a lot of problems that
you know most people can't handle now as
the guy throws the the beer bottle Adam
and they are coming guys you cannot stay
in this vicinity clearly something's
going on here this person's like oh no
what am I gonna do I tell you what
you're gonna do you are going to put it
in Drive and you're gonna get the heck
out of there and even if they can't get
out of the way in time and you end up
putting one of them under the wheels at
that point you have a reasonable fear of
great bodily harm at the very least he's
not coming at you with that baseball bat
in order to play a game of catch you've
got to get the heck out of there and you
got to recognize that the other part of
this is you've got to lock your doors
friend these guys gonna end up getting
out now the guys yelling at him whatever
and the dudes smashing his window my
guess is at this point they haven't
gotten inside the car and that's why the
guy comes over here and says hey man you
know what are you doing let's come on
let's fight or whatever he's pointing at
him and doing those things but that
actually kind of looks like you know not
knowing what's going on in his hands
that looks like he might be also armed
but friends I can't tell you enough
don't accept ego challenges like this
keep your doors locked
stay away from the danger and use the
car to get the heck out of there even if
you end up having to use a firearm if
you had a firearm and these guys are
bashing on your glass and all that stuff
that might be an acceptable time to use
your firearm because you go I gotta stop
these guys from harming me but
unfortunately instead this driver
instead of fleeing the scene instead of
having a tool available to him he opened
his door to get out and was badly beaten
so let's learn the lessons here use our
vehicle effectively don't get put in
these kind of situations and instead
cover our ass
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