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welcome to today's active self-
protection lesson I'm your host John
Korea today's video comes to us out of
Madison Wisconsin in the United States
and it shows a bank robber who chose the
wrong Bank we're going to see a couple
angles here one from behind one of the
tellers you can see this guy come in and
announce a bank robbery we're going to
see it from a second angle here from the
lobby but the bank that he chose to Rob
actually has a security guard plain
clothes I said officer I didn't mean
that he is not an off-duty officer he a
plane Clos security guy then when he
comes up and announces the robbery the
plane Clos guy here is going to draw his
firearm get a different spot shoot him
once in the back and then hold him there
and now start having to work through
what else is going on go read the news
stories he says man I I I thought about
rendering first aid but I didn't want to
because I didn't couldn't see his hands
and there were other people there and so
he's just going to hold him here for
about five minutes while somebody else
got on the phone with 911 to get the
police there and by the time the cops
got there the guy had taken the room
temperature challenge uh a couple things
to think about through this one is that
this armed security guard uh the news
story said had had received no training
from the company that he was employed by
and no training by the bank to do what
he's doing but thankfully only the bad
guy was harmed in this one and that's
where it ends pretty excellent work All
Around by this off duty officer if you
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want to talk about the legalities of
shooting someone in the back I also want
to talk talk about reasonable belief and
whether he had to actually be armed in
order to be legally and morally capable
of shooting him third I want to talk
about appropriate follow-up actions to
keep you and bystanders safe first I do
want to think about the transitional
space that is a bank you notice this guy
comes in here and he immediately you
know he's got his face covered in all
that stuff and just in a matter of
seconds this goes from just another
normal day at the bank to a a violent
felony in progress and of course if
you're sitting there where you know off
the screen to the right where the armed
guard is and again he's playing clothed
uh clothed rather but you notice this
guy's got his face completely covered
and he comes in and announces a robbery
stuffs a uh um a bag under the counter
to the clerk says fill it or whatever
and may have made uh some intimations
that he had a gun he definitely had a
hand like in his pocket like he had a
gun so you see him come in here like
this stick his hand in his pocket and
push the the uh bag underneath and
that's what our guard is looking at so
you notice the guard has got a gun up
and out and driven out on this guy and
what we have to ask a question for is
that at the end of the day this guy was
actually unarmed however that's really
irrelevant it's did the guard reasonably
believe in that moment that this guy
recognized it was a recognized imminent
deadly threat I think the answer to that
is pretty clearly yes a bank robbery by
its definition is a violent felony and
this guy is a violent felon come to find
out he actually had committed armed bank
robbery before and had done 10 years for
it in all of that now I want to also pay
attention to the fact that this armed
guard has got a gun that he is drawing
from a seated position difficult for him
you notice he's trying to use his
support hand here to kind of figure out
what's going on with that gun I would
really recommend spending some time
under instruction learning how to draw a
firearm from a compromised position not
just standing on the Square range but
maybe seated like this guy is sitting in
your car even laying down so that you
have some exposure to those kind of
things so do so in a safe manner now
Noti as the guy comes up put his hands
away from him and notice that he's
moving back with his right hand so his
left hand has the bag moving back with
his right hand towards his pocket and
notice here that our guard has his gun
out but boy that's a difficult shot
because he has a bystander right next to
him now of course the tellers aren't
under any really any threat they have
bulletproof glass between them and this
robber but the guard is under threat and
the people that are in the bank are
under threat and therefore our guards
like wait a minute this is a violent
felony and progress that I have to stop
and that is very reasonable the police
did not charge this guy notice that he
moved to his right to our left and and I
think that was really wise because it
gave him a better back stop it first of
all got him in a better position now a
couple questions number one does he have
to verbally warn the guy the answer to
that is no you can take action to stop a
deadly threat without a verbal warning
now in most places most police
departments will try to give a verbal
warning but you're under no moral
obligation to give somebody a verbal
warning like that now of course we can
see that the robber has his right hand
out of his jacket and up on the counter
but again the the guard cannot see that
he's just seen him go back towards his
right pocket and therefore again a
reasonable belief of an imminent deadly
threat he can take action in this moment
he absolutely can because this is a
violent felony because of the totality
of the circumstances a reasonable person
would believe that this is a deadly
threat to everyone around and therefore
he can act on that doesn't have to and
uh give a warning and it doesn't matter
that he shot him in the back it's not
really about where he shot him it's
about why because the guy is's a violent
bank robber puts one shot in him and
that puts him down I think it was
actually really good as well that you
can see that our our um Defender here
puts a shot in him follows him to the
ground and then assesses what's going on
through his sights and actually think
that was a really good restraint he
didn't Blaze him down with 47 shots he
he put a shot in him and then assessed
what that had done now of course that is
a little bit dangerous you might have
wanted to start with a little bit more
serving than that but it worked in this
instance and the guard was doing what he
felt like was the reasonable thing in
the moment and I agree it was which is
why the da chose not to charge him and
and if you go read the news story he is
pretty emotionally traumatized by all of
this he'd only been employed by this
bank for about three weeks when all of
this went down now he starts taking
follow-up actions and I do notice a
couple things number one that's not a
bad grip on that pistol good thumbs
forward grip so he's got at least a
little bit of skill set here got was in
the Marine Corps is what it said though
I I would guess he got his pistol skills
elsewhere and now start doing follow-up
actions interestingly enough here go
read the news story again and you'll see
in follow-up actions he decided he's
communicating with other people pointing
them in the direction and he's keeping
his firearm on the bad guy if you've got
to stay in the vicinity of a downed
attacker you make sure that you get
yourself enough distance and you keep
your firearm ready to use if you
absolutely need to and the guard
articulated that he chose not to to
offer Medical Care to the guy because he
didn't have any cuffs on him he didn't
couldn't see the guy's hands didn't know
if he continued to be a threat and
wasn't safe he didn't feel safe to do so
and I think that was really wise I I
carry medical equipment on me and I
recommend you do as well but I I
generally speaking say you wouldn't
offer Medical Care to somebody who was
just a deadly threat to you because you
don't have cuffs on you in order to take
them into custody wait for the police
officers to come and do that so let's
remember some stuff here about keeping
your tools on you about watching
transitional spaces about the Justified
use of deadly force and a reasonable
belief would a reasonable person believe
that they were under imminent threat of
Grievous bodily harm or death them or
somebody else in the room the answer to
that in this case clearly was yes this
is a violent felony so let's learn when
we can use deadly force let's learn how
to use deadly force let's take
appropriate follow-up actions to cover
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