today we get to see a private citizen
use their firearm to help protect a
police officer
hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active cell protection I'm your
host John Korea it comes to us from
Genoa in Illinois and I'm doing this one
as a main lesson because the main lesson
here I think is for private citizens
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watch the original I've linked it in the
description it's got some more audio you
see this state trooper has been super
chill with this guy pulled him over
doing like 109 miles an hour in a 75 so
he says look man I'm not going to take
you to jail but I do have to impound the
car whatever and and he's being super
cool with him I've given you a lower
speed we are going to have to impound
the car but I'm not going to take you to
jail today and the guy gets upset and
then tackles the officer takes him to
the ground they didn't release all of
the footage of that but he's going to
beat that officer up pretty good
including grabbing officers pepper spray
and spraying him and trying to grab his
gun and and the guy finally backs off
when what you're going to see here is
he's going to kind of try to get away
and a private citizen jumped out there
and pointed a gun at the guy so he did
not uh you know he finally let off and
then tried to jump in the tow truck and
drive off and the tow truck driver then
grabbed him and they held him down until
a bunch of backup could arrive which was
10 minutes later listening to the
officer's interaction
I tried being nice I left my guard down
you stay right there
that
came out with the gun thank you
officer is expected to make a full
recovery perps facing a host of charges
and we're gonna think lessons all right
show of hands would you have stopped to
help this officer or would you just kept
driving on by I think I would have
stopped to help but you got to do the
calculus in advance let's talk about it
now of course this is an
officer-involved interaction but we're
not doing this one as a badge cam I want
to talk about this from the private
citizens perspective and and think about
this whether you're an officer or a
private citizen because I do think
there's some significant pre-assault
indicators here you see the guy looking
away and that kind of Target glance or
away glance is a is absolutely a
pre-attack indicator it can mean that he
is looking for Witnesses it can mean
he's looking for Escape Routes but in
this case it means he is just looking a
way to gather his thoughts and gather
the courage to attack and we see those
all the time so if you're having a
direct conversation a conflict with
somebody and they look off away from you
like this then you got to recognize that
is a pre-assault indicator and and that
is a an absolute tell and you need to
watch that tell and create a little bit
of space the officer needed some space
here to stay away from the guy and he
didn't get that space so he actually
closed that distance because that's what
cops do but a little bit of space might
have given him a better opportunity to
sprawl and prevent this takedown but
he's too close and so then the guy has
him now listen I think every cop in
America should you know take at least
six months of Jiu Jitsu quite frankly at
least six months maybe a year of of you
know a couple times a week hitting the
mats will make you fairly much a God on
the street more is better of course but
in private citizens too six months to a
year of good you know empty-handed
skills training can really give you the
basics that you need to create a little
space learn how to sprawl but if you do
get taken down know how to get taken
down know how to work from the bottom
position know how to keep this guy from
hurting you and our officer is going to
have a really tough time of that here
because his bottom game ain't great you
see the guy here he's got a hand up and
then he gets the officer's OC spray and
this is a problem for officers private
citizens a little bit too
because if they get a hold of your tools
do you know what's going to happen
certainly a firearm that's going to be a
deadly threat but I would recommend for
all private citizens that carry OC spray
that that you get a live exposure now I
know that's going to be scary for people
and if you don't do that I get it but
man knowing how it affects you and how
to fight through that and how to
continue to fight especially in a
grappling environment where you don't
need your eyes where you can work that
on you know just on feel and
kinesthetics is an important part of
knowing self-defense so if it gets used
against you okay now is this guy trying
to kill the officer he was he was trying
to get the officer's gun okay finally
gets off let's talk about the private
citizen here first of all I think the
guy's a hero and and his the presence of
his firearm is what back this guy off
the officer to get him away from him so
then that way the officer could recover
himself secondly they'll be very careful
as a private citizen announce yourself
to the officer right generally if
they're fighting officer I'm here to
help you do you need help is the first
response and the correct answer so if
they don't mistake you for an accomplice
of the bad guy I also also love that he
pointed the gun here but then the guy
backed off and he didn't have a gun
didn't have a weapon so he didn't shoot
him he used the gun very appropriately
here to to Simply uh get him off and
that's a good defensive gun use and now
the guy doesn't need to have a gun to
actually shoot him he can use that to
take him instead of shoot him and I also
even like here that okay you've got the
gun out and on the guy but if the guy's
gonna steal a car and drive off
especially the car is not yours probably
shooting him is the wrong answer so he
chooses not to now make sure that you
don't point that gun in any bystander
you got to know when to put that gun
away and transition to other skills
whether that's to use your own OC spray
which is a private citizen self-defender
you absolutely should be carrying or to
go Hands-On and you should have those
skills as well generally as a private
citizen those Hands-On skills are for
breaking contact not for taking people
into custody but knowing when not to use
the gun and put it back in the holster
is an important skill I think that that
this private citizen was an absolute
hero thank God that he was there thank
God that he was willing to engage to
help this officer and I want you to
think through that in advance as well
who am I willing to help what I should
what I step in how would that go for me
and make sure that you have those things
in advance with the toolkit and
knowledge of when to use it and when not
to use it as you work on covering your
aspect