I always say that when seconds count
police are only minutes away but every
once in a while it's just not true thank
you for joining us on today's active
self protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from Chicago Illinois in the United
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ammo I put through my rifles or pistols
at the range we have audio on this one
it's a little hard to hear because of
the music but let's listen in and get
what we can at the end we'll think about
some lessons
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I actually don't have a news story on
this one so if you do put it in a
comment I'll add it to the description
but finally all the cops are gonna come
in after this and start issuing
high-fives to everyone as they all
showed up at the end of this one purpose
taken into custody victim was not hurt
and that's where this one ends got to
admit I love it when I see the tables
turned like that from today's video I
just want to say for all of us do me a
favor and treat other people in your
world with kindness today I know
everybody's scared right now I know
things are a little bit crazy and that
there's a really uncertain time that
we're going in right now but that
doesn't get solved by us being ugly to
each other so go spread a little bit of
love online in person in your
neighborhood at your place of employment
and let's make our world a better place
and get through this together okay let's
learn lessons from this one lots of
lessons in this one from the victims
perspective as well as the officers so
first of all this guy comes in and I see
this more and more he's got his gun
actually in this little party bag shows
it to her but doesn't leave it out now
notice he goes hey here is this gun I am
announcing a robbery and if you were
listening real careful it was hard to
hear over the music but he was saying
hey you know what's going on don't try
to run don't cause any problems just
give me the money and we'll be okay so
we see this guy has just shown the gun
and then put it back in the bag so that
he is not it's visible to somebody
outside this is a tactic I'm seeing bad
guys use you should be ready for it now
notice here that compliance can be a
fine strategy but as a self defender you
have opportunities here so she initially
complies and if we're a self defender
then purposeful compliance is a thing
and a good thing and she pushed the
panic button but notice that when he
looked away here she had her first
opportunity for a counter ambush now she
doesn't have a firearm owner here I'm
not
she should have done that or whatever
but if she had had a firearm on her you
know gunfights are MetroPCS employees or
three-and-oh and gun fights on the
channel then this was a good time to go
because he's looking away and in that
looking away if she had a 1.5 second
draw on a first shot there's no way that
he could physiologically beat her draw
to the shop there so if she had those
skills and was confident in those skills
she would have been able to counter
ambush him and absolutely wreck this guy
but she doesn't have that so she chooses
to comply instead and that is an
acceptable strategy again just give him
what he wants if you don't have the
attitude the skills and the plan to
protect yourself then you just have to
comply now the officers are gonna take a
full minute to respond to her alarm
which is ridiculously fast that said
though she finally gets out of the way
and the officer comes a minute is
forever in an armed robbery she left her
cellphone Irbil to him for an entire
minute now let's think about this from
the officers perspective this officers
coming in and I know some people are
gonna say but he doesn't have his gun
out when he comes in that's because it's
a panic alarm and officers get these as
false alarms hundreds of times they get
this all the time Oh false alarm sorry
officer didn't mean to push the button
or whatever so they come in an awful lot
of times when they are not you know
really thinking about it's probably not
real or whatever and this officer came
in because he probably was having dinner
right next to it whatever sees the guy
and gets his gun out now he does
something really good here and he sees
that guy and okay this isn't a false
alarm and he gets his gun at the low
ready because he doesn't see a deadly
threat so he doesn't point a gun at the
guy that's how we do it that's his wile
already is a valuable tool in every self
defenders repertoire to be able to draw
the gun to a low ready position that it
is below your line of sight so you can
see the eyes the hands and the waist of
somebody who might be a deadly threat
and issue them commands is a good skill
to have and you should have that as a
self defender now notice the guy gives
up okay fine dude puts this stuff down
shows his hands that's exactly right now
there's some confusion here because once
I put your hands I'll put your hands
down put your hands up learn to
communicate together guys and say simple
things tell them the right thing to do
and make them do it guy goes down okay
fine notice that our victim has gotten
out of the danger zone absolutely right
and put a door between her and them it's
not bulletproof but it's something now
notice here we're going to see some
crazy stuff as an officer behind the
counter is gonna get his stuff out and
then put his gun down on the counter and
I will say this this is why you have a
holster on your person this is why this
holster should be open and should stay
open when you take the gun out of it
don't put the stinking gun down on the
counter put the stupid gun back in your
holster this is why you have a holster
and this is why I tell all non-sworn
that they should have a holster that
stays open on their person this is why I
don't like those soft nylon holsters
that go in pockets or crappy nylon
holsters that go on your waist because
they won't stay open you won't be able
to put the gun away you got to do
something silly like put the gun down on
the counter like this which ok fine he's
got another cop buddy around he's got a
gun out but that's just not a secure
place to put the gun a holster is a
secure place to put a gun now he gets
the gun back in his hand now here's the
next part this guy's not a deadly threat
anymore he is in custody he has
handcuffs on get him searched and put
the guns away there's no reason to have
a gun out now this increases the
likelihood of negligent discharge and
the like so instead again why do you
have a gun out and pointed at this guy's
back this is a chance to have a
negligent discharge and to create
problems you don't want so put the gun
back in the stupid holster now they did
finally go and find the victim that's
great she's fine
and now they're gonna go and start
yelling at this guy now I'm gonna say
this for all of us sworn and non-sworn
you've got to control your emotions I
get it that he's angry at the guy I get
it that he's like hey we got you you
sucker but you got to control your
emotions and be the bigger person
because we are the ones who act in moral
ways we are the ones who act by the code
that we do the right thing all the time
so you want to maintain emotional
fitness that says I'm okay to this and I
don't have to prove something to him or
to anyone else because yelling at the
guy like this I don't think did this
officer any favors now again notice
officer with the gun in his hand is and
there's gonna be a whole bunch of
responding officers here who are going
to show up with guns in hand when the
guy bangs on the window says hey guys
we're in here and we're cool notice the
first guy comes in with his gun up this
is why I say as a private citizen that
you want to not have a gun in your hand
when the cops show up so this is why if
you have a good holster on your person
you put that gun in the holster leave
your hand on it as soon as you see those
red and blues flashing you get that gun
out of your hand now it's okay in this
instance because the guys got the big
you know it's got a uniform on says
police on him all those things he's
probably not gonna get shot by his buddy
in blue but for those of us who are
private citizens big
lesson here that cop came in with his
gun up and I would not recommend it that
you have a gun in your hand when he does
now of course okay all these guys are
showing up and it's now going to be a
party because hey look we finally got it
or whatever but notice here this is
probably the one of the very few times
that I've ever seen on the channel that
the police have showed up in time to
stop a crime so this is why I do say I
want you to have the ability to stop it
I want you to have the attitude the
skills and the plan to do so in this
case worked out okay in the panic button
worked
stupid perp got taken into custody
everything worked out okay few mistakes
here I think we want to do better than
this though as we cover our ass