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on today's active self protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa today's video
comes to us from Shreveport Louisiana in
the United States after thorough testing
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the guy coming from the left here is our
perpetrator he's just wandering through
this gas station looking for an intended
victim and watch what happens here as
this woman's gonna come from the left
hand side going to her car that's on the
right she doesn't really notice this guy
or see him and when she goes to get in
her car he is going to come at her from
behind and stuff her into the car and
get in behind her now we can't really
see what's going on inside the car but
you can see that that car is rocking and
rolling and see just enough to recognize
that now she gets the passenger door
open and they are arguing and fighting
on the inside of that car you see that
the windshield wipers go which tells me
they're flailing inside that car and
she's working hard to get away from this
guy and if you go in and read the news
story it took them quite a while to find
him but she is not having it here and is
not going to be taken to another
location so what's gonna happen here is
she's gonna fight and fight and fight
and finally get out of the car and even
grab her purse and get away from this
guy
and close the door he did run off it
took police quite a while to find him in
fact it was some US Marshals that ended
up taking him into custody he faces
charges of burglary and of kidnapping
man I'm really glad they eventually
caught that guy I hope he stays behind
bars an awful long time you ought to get
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those would ya first thing I want to
think about here is the fact that you
really want to pay attention to a
baseline normal and what you expect in a
gas station is people come
and going to their cars people coming
and going inside of the place where
they're gonna you know the inside the
convenience store or whatever somebody
just kind of wandering between cars and
not going inside or coming from inside
or those kinds of things is absolutely a
pre attack indicator and a warning sign
it's something that I really want you to
pay attention to and say hey wait a
minute this is out of the normal that's
that environmental awareness that really
helps now this guy's walking across and
just kind of ambling and I want you to
see the target glance right here you
notice that he looks over and sees what
he thinks of is going to be a target for
him that kind of target glance is very
important now it might just be a person
who is just normally kind of curious of
their world
okay fine but when you combine somebody
who is not doing what you'd expect in a
gas station with somebody who's paying
attention to you personally now you
start to have the ability to say aha
this is a particular problem and I want
to be very careful and cautious of it so
these are those kind of pre attack
indicators that those target glances
really help us with now what we're gonna
see here is this guy's just gonna kind
of mosey on past and we see our intended
victim here and again why would he
choose her she's a vulnerable person
notice he doesn't choose a big strong
guy to victimize he chooses a woman why
because he probably feels like he can
overwhelm her physically if you are in a
vulnerable population that includes
women that includes the elderly that
includes the physically disabled you
want to be especially careful to pay
attention to those pre attack indicators
also to keep your tools on you have that
attitude skills and plan now I don't
mean that she's done a terrible job here
of not paying attention I just think she
didn't see the fact that this guy kind
of was looking at her and wondering if
she was gonna be a good victim had she
done that I don't think she would have
turned her back like this on this guy
this is a very normal thing but
recognize that when you are getting in
your car you do tend to kind of get
focused on the inside of your car and
that is a mistake from a self defense
perspective when you open that door take
that last look around as you're gonna go
to open the door of your car just make
sure that everything around you is okay
and you have the time and space to get
in your car safely and that no one's
paying attention to you who shouldn't
she might have been able to avoid the
the fight that is to come if she had
simply done that which again I'm not
saying that she's terrible from not
having done that that's kind of advanced
around your car 101 now notice he stuffs
her in the
here's where emotional fitness is so
critically important that obviously this
is you know just completely knocking her
off her rocker
but she has the emotional fitness the
presence of mind to stay here and to
turn this up and to say no I am NOT
going softly and to start fighting this
guy and that's really I think the most
important part of active self-protection
is having the attitude of a self
defender no one has a right to hurt me
and I will not be taken I love the fact
as well that she doesn't get kidnapped
here because she fights we know that
statistically speaking particularly in
rape attempts that women who fight back
against rapists and against kidnappers
are no more likely to be injured that
those who don't and they are far less
likely to be taken or to be raped and so
I think that women across America and
across the world need to be taught to
fight back and fight like their life
depends on it because it probably does
depend on it she does a very good job
here of getting herself out of the
danger zone and getting away from the
car now obviously if she had children in
the car or something like that she
wouldn't be able to get away from the
car but in this case she was so get the
heck out of the danger zone and then
again let him get away even if he steals
your car let the car go your person is
what is the most valuable and let the
cops get him later so pay attention to
your surroundings know what those
pre-attack indicators are make sure your
emotional fitness is strong be ready to
fight on the inside of a vehicle and
know how to cover your ass