even if the police are in route you and
only you are responsible for your
self-defense
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i'm john korea the founder and owner
here at active self protection and i
welcome you to today's
lesson at active self-protection it
comes to us from indianapolis indiana
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there's a news story linked in the
description but i've actually
talked to the guy on camera right here
he's the owner of a security company
in indiana and he is guarding an
apartment complex it's an overnight you
can see it's 4 30 in the morning
and what has happened is there's a guy
who is a known felon and he known to
carry a gun
and he's a you know just mischief on the
property all the time and has been
trespassed off the property and this
night
our guys name's melvin has actually
trespassed this guy off the property and
the guy when he was trespass said
i'm going to come back and i'm going to
kill you and so he's like dude get out
of here
so you can see our dude he's on the
phone with 9-1-1 he's saying walk away
from me get away from me because the
dudes will cross the street
so now what we're going to see is we're
going to see melvin get out of the car
here we'll move to the back of the
vehicle
and light the guy up with his
pistol-mounted light it's a streamlight
tlr-1 hl
so then we're gonna see some movement
here watch to the right you're gonna
you're gonna see
he actually shoots seven times hits him
five times
and then stops now what we're gonna see
is actually that dude
was carrying a firearm he did actually
draw that firearm now what you're going
to see from the right as you're going to
see as he continues to cover him
that the cops are going to show up but
they're going to show up too late to do
anything here
this guy the the felon is facing a host
of charges
actually did live through this they got
him to the hospital very very quickly
and he lived through being shot five
times with a pistol
it was determined to be justified
conduct by the guard in this instance
and we'll show you why in a little bit
and our bad guy is facing a host of
charges and that is where this one
ends man that's scary it does lead me to
a question
that i hope i know the answer to the
question is this
how do you keep your firearm when you
are in the car
please please please tell me that you
just leave it in the holster and leave
it on your body that's the answer that
i'm looking for
but i'm open tell me what you do will
you let's think about lessons from today
a couple of things as we begin here
number one when you're running security
man
and doing professional security services
this is when you're gonna run in
to sketchy guys like this now most of us
if we're private citizens we're not
doing this kind of work
if we trespass a guy out of our house or
whatever we're going to be behind a
locked door
but he's guarding the property this is
what he's paid to do and so he has to
take these risks
and this is whether that's paid security
or that is uh you know law enforcement
or whatever the next thing that i like
is again he knows this guy
said he's threatened him all these
things so he's called the cops okay fine
he's on the phone with 9-1-1
but they're not going to be there fast
enough to save you now as the guy starts
coming across the street
a couple of interesting things he's
actually hollering out his window saying
stay away from me don't come near me
stay across the street
now a couple of good things about that
recognize number one that your 911 call
is being recorded if you call emergency
services
from the time the phone rings it is
being recorded even before they pick up
and so the things that you say can be
used against you but can also show
that you are doing reasonable things and
in this case definitely shows hey man i
don't want to fight stay away from me
get off of me now i do notice here that
my friend has his gun
already in hand i don't know that that's
a great idea because now what he's going
to do is he's going to transition that
gun from his left hand to his right he's
a right-handed shooter
probably better off here to leave the
gun in the holster until you really need
it in your hand
because he's recognizing oh no i might
need to shoot this guy so i'm going to
put it in my right hand
better to leave it in the holster he's
carrying a holster on his strong side
i'll show you that in a minute
to leave it there until such time as you
need it because every time you transfer
the gun back hand to hand
a you're pointing the gun in directions
that you may not want to be pointing
guns
and b you run the risk of administrative
gun handling errors and therefore
negligent discharges
okay fine now he's going to jump out of
the vehicle here and there you notice he
transitioned it back to his left hand
because he's putting the car in park now
he didn't need to put the car in park
necessarily
could have gotten away here but i get it
so he's gonna get out and i do like that
now you notice on the right there you
can see his holster
which is where i would have suggested he
said it second thing i want to see here
is as soon as he gets out he does use
his pistol mounted light
now i think that all home defense guns
should have bright white lights on it
for those who are private citizens i
don't know that you need a light on your
concealed carry gun
but for all working professionals with a
gun especially working late nights those
kinds of things
absolutely recommend the brightest
flashlight on your firearm that you can
and he's going to use that here to
identify threats you better recognize
that you don't want to point a gun at
somebody until you need to shoot them
so you learn to use the spill as well as
the throw now i love that he comes over
to the other side of the vehicle and
uses the vehicle for cover here a he got
out of the car at the right time
remember if your car's not mobile it's
going to cause you significant problems
so getting away from it is a good thing
out of it gives you more mobility
number two using the car for cover slash
concealment
really smart because it puts you in a
better place to find a good angle
and gives you something between you and
the bad guy and i think that really
makes a lot of sense here
so we use that cover really well getting
behind the vehicle
lighting this guy up telling him stay
away from me man i have a gun so giving
him every chance
now i do want to notice here that we saw
a movement and that movement right there
with the shadow so our bad guy here is
again a known felon known to be in
possession of guns
has threatened death on our good guy
and then has made this big furtive
gesture and again known to carry a
firearm
so we can't see it right here but as he
starts moving we can see on the
left-hand side
that the first shot breaks from our dude
and let's recognize here that he's gonna
get after it and watch how fast he
shoots at about a car length of distance
he's gonna put five shots in the guy and
you can see the muzzle rising i've
slowed it down here
at about point three splits so why would
he do that well you can see right here
now in our bad guy's left hand
that he has drawn a firearm now we saw
his right hand move in the shadow
but that's indicative again that he's
moving both hands out at once we just
couldn't see the left in the shadow
and it's when that gun came out that our
good guy went to work on him so
thankfully it was caught here on his
dash cam and that gives us a little bit
more information clearly it would have
been around
otherwise because a guy had a gun out or
whatever but we see why he did what he
did
and he puts five shots out of the seven
that he shoots into him that's pretty
decent marksmanship but recognize
there's a backstop
issue here and then he stopped and why
did he stop shooting
because you can see this guy rolling
away from him with his hands in the air
that looks like a surrender posture
that being the case the thing to do is
stop shooting again we care about
stopping the threat
and melvin stopped the threat and
stopped it very very well here and then
stopped
shooting and that was his goal that's
what he did and he used his defensive
firearm appropriately now then notice he
keeps him covered
and is still looking and using his
pistol mounted light
very well so if you're going to use a
pistol-mounted light you need to train
with it in low-light environments
you need to recognize how to use the
throw and the spill how to cover a
suspect who has just pointed a gun at
you while you're waiting for the cops
and not to get shot by those cops
when they show up now that first officer
actually buzzed by him it's the second
one that's going to come and stop with
him they had some discussions about that
but when the cops show up make sure
you're able to put that gun away safely
or put it down on the ground i think
melvin did a fine job here
of covering his asp