if you've got the attitude the skills
and the plan a bank robber don't got a
chance I'm John Correa the founder and
owner of active self-protection and I
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range guy walking in here has actually
committed a previous bank robbery a
couple weeks before and came into this
Bank the day before and cased the joint
and this guy coming out here is a
security officer actually sent me this
footage who watched him do that paid
attention to him so when he came back in
a second time and puts it on his face
then our security officer goes whoa this
is bad juju now dude walks up to the
counter pulls a gun right there shows a
gun to the clerk and announces an armed
robbery throws her bag and says hey give
me all the money and now he's gonna look
over and what's gonna happen here what
you see his hands and those things you
can see he's covered his face put his
hood up and all those kinds of things
now what we're gonna see from this other
side is when he announces that armed
robbery our security officer has a gun
draws it out and says hey man show me
your hands give up you know and dude
does he's gonna say oh okay fine man
whatever again that gun was in his
pocket not in his hand he just showed it
to put it in his pocket so then our bad
guy is going to then lay down on the
ground our security officer actually
makes him lay down facing away from him
so once he gets it the guys attention
okay fine guy lays down face away from
him with his hands up and now I'm gonna
speed it up just for the sake of time
because he's gonna have to hold him
there for several minutes of course our
security officer has alerted authorities
cops are on the way and all those things
she's gonna maintain some significant
distance from the guy look at him from
several different angles while the
employees get the heck out of there and
get everybody on the way so again I've
sped this up to about five hundred
percent just for the sake of time
several minutes go by here and when the
cops show up he is going to safely and
carefully holster his firearm here
police officers are going to take this
dude into custody and he is facing of
course a host of charges including
felony in possession and
two bank robberies and those kinds of
things dude is going to be doing some
serious time and that is where this one
ends crazy great outcome in this
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think about lessons out of today's video
first thing I want to say this is great
paying attention because again this loss
prevention specialist this this a
security officer has paying attention to
his world sees what's going on saw this
guy in the branch the day before casing
the joint not doing normal banking
things but looking at security cameras
and all those kinds of things seeing
where the money's kept in those kinds of
things and he also met the description
of a bank robber that had hit another
place previously so I think that's a
really good job here of correctly
profiling a week correctly profiled
based on behavioral cues and again this
guy having come in the day before and
cased the joint that's the kind of
behavioral cue you want to pay attention
to so again it's not based on any
demographic other than actual behavioral
cues and that's correct
so dude walks up and he puts his mask up
now of course in our current pandemic
world where masks are required in a lot
of places simply wearing a mask in this
day and age is not going to be a sign of
an armed robbery however if you're not
wearing a mask and then you walk into
the bank and put your mask up and you
put your hood up and you have gloves on
your hands and those kinds of things now
that totality of the circumstances is an
indicator that bad things are coming and
you always look at the eyes as well
because the eyes are the windows to the
soul and the eyes are not being covered
so watch the eyes because that'll tell
you an awful lot about what someone's
doing far more than what their mouth is
telling you so notice here that dude's
gonna come up and announce an armed
robbery and I think the right answer
here is compliance now here what you can
see is you can see the guy pulls the gun
and shows the gun to the clerk and
announces an armed robbery
whenever somebody shows you a force
multiplier particularly a firearm assume
that they have the willingness to use it
assume that it is loaded
assume that it is real you're under no
obligation to give them any benefit of
the doubt when they threaten you with a
firearm friends and of course in this
case I think the clerk's right answer
here unarmed those kinds of things just
give the guy what he wants comply and
hope for the best probably the only
thing you can do and then let the
security guard deal with the problem and
the security officer deal with that you
know you've got armed security on-site
hopefully they've seen the problem and
they can deal with it asking the clerk
to do something about that probably
pretty foolhardy at this point so now
our guy comes up and I want you to
notice what the distances we're looking
at here that when he is first
encountering this guy with his gun up
he's probably at about ten yards from
this guy so having that ability and
marksmanship to be able to hit a target
at 10 yards also noticed that our
security officer is moving so just a
standing marksmanship alone for most
people at 10 yards is pretty difficult
so I would encourage you to have a very
high level of skill to be really good
with your firearm that you can make
those hit next thing rather than having
the gun up and on somebody I really
would recommend working on a low ready
position so that you can see that the
eyes and the hands because notice here
is he's closed the distance a little bit
and gotten the guy's attention notice
with the gun up he'd have a hard time
seeing both the guy's hands and his
waist where the gun would come from next
as well I do think it's excellent that
he issued a command here now if the guy
had a gun in his hand or whatever he
might not be able to do that might have
had to just take the shot but given that
the guy has threatened with a gun but
the gun is in his pocket and immediately
undeliverable probably a great idea here
to issue a command show me your hands
put your hands up stop those kinds of
things simple positive commands to try
to take this guy at gunpoint before you
shoot him and that is an ideal outcome
in my opinion the mere presence of the
defensive firearm effecting a positive
outcome so if you have the opportunity
to do that now again if the gun was in
the guy's hands you wouldn't but the
fact of the matter is this guy didn't
have a gun in his hands he merely
threatened with it and put it away great
opportunity here to use his verbal
skills now notice I think it's great
that he has this guy get down on the
ground and face away from him this is if
you have to detain somebody here this is
the way to do it get them to face away
from you so that they can't see you you
get into a place where you can see them
they can
see you now I know somebody's gonna ask
well what would have happened if he this
guy decides to run off probably we just
want to let him run off at that point if
he's gonna run off specifically as a
private citizen you know you're not a
law enforcement officer you don't have
any duty to protect the community or
anything like that just let him go
you've defended yourself and the people
around you and you've done a fine job
now I also like that this guy that our
security officer decided to keep his
distance you've got a firearm on you and
I know some people gonna say he should
have gone up and taken the firearm away
from the guy well I kind of disagree
because again that puts him in contact
could have really gone bad in a lot of
ways better to just stay on the guy from
some distance and tell him if he makes a
move towards his hand that he is going
to end up getting shot at the very least
or maybe have somebody else do it I do
notice here maybe one whole thing to
think about is that when the cops show
up he kind of picks his muzzle of his
gun up kind of like yep here's my gun I
have a gun I would really strongly
recommend that when police are inbound
and you can usually identify them by the
Reds and blues and the sirens and those
kinds of things that you get that gun
put away as quickly as you can whether
you put that on the ground or and you
know he's known as security or whatever
and they say hey the known security
guard and this is what he looks like and
here's what it is get that gun safely
carefully put away and notice here that
our guard our security officer puts the
gun away by looking it into the holster
hey he kind of you know fished at it a
couple times said now I can't do that so
then he looks his gun into the holsters
one of the reasons that we talked about
putting the gun in the holster and
looking it into the holster is because
under stress you're probably going to
want to do that because you're probably
adrenalized it's more difficult than you
think you're wearing an inside the
waistband concealed holster not like a
police officer so look the gun into the
holster did okay at that now and then
the cops are gonna come and get this
guys facing a whole host of charges so I
really think this is a pretty ideal
outcome here in terms of a good guy when
we had a good guy who was paying
attention to his world he used good
commands because he could use good
commands took this guy at gunpoint held
him appropriately and the cops were able
to come and get him and nobody ended up
getting shot that's a perfect defensive
gun use in this particular case and I
think that it is absolutely laudable
this guy helped everybody around in that
building to cover their ass