today we get to see one of the more
famous people in history who's been in a
defensive gun use
hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self-protection I'm your
host John Korea today we're going to
take a look at the surveillance footage
that was released from the defensive
encounter from the rapper the baby from
Huntersville North Carolina today's
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so the baby's just off screen here to
the left these these two guys have been
looking at him and if you go read the
news stories I've left a bunch of them
in the description that they were
looking at him because they thought
maybe he was that famous rapper whatever
he thought they wanted to fight and
eventually they're going to say hey
let's go out to the parking lot and have
this fight not here and so he's going to
attack him so that's you know again
Jonathan Kirk is the baby there and
they're gonna have a grow and and Kirk
has a firearm on his person that's his
wife Mariah Osborne there that's coming
in and they're gonna have a pretty big
Donnie Brook and you can tell the baby
because he's got the the bright yellow
sleeves and Jalen Craig there you see
kind of makes emotion like he has a
firearm as well and so as they kind of
break up here the baby says that that he
was worried that guy was going to shoot
him so he draws a gun as well he draws
his firearm and shoots and and hits one
of those other guys and then hangs out
the district attorney declared that this
was justified conduct or at least that
he couldn't prove Beyond a reasonable
doubt that it wasn't uh again one person
died and nobody else and neither the
baby nor his wife nor his kids were
harmed you know this is an interesting
one and I think especially because they
didn't release all of the surveillance
footage we're not going to be able to
see all of the details but there are
some significant lessons here a couple
things on this one as we get started for
all of us you know you see a celebrity
or something like that do your very best
not to be creepy and weird it's it's a
kind of an odd thing you know I'm not
near the celebrity that the baby is for
sure but you know fans like to come up
and say hi and they see me in Walmart or
Costco or whatever and that's great I
don't have any problems with it I'm sure
he doesn't either but please don't be
creepy and weird and you know make eye
contact and weird eye contact and look
at him like you're stalking him or
something all right it's an oddity and
certainly I'm sure at his level of
celebrity gets that pretty regularly and
threats against his family and those
kinds of things second thing here man
adults use words right hey guys you
doing okay what's going on are you guys
all right you know can I help you
whatever no Fu whatever all right well
I'm gonna go get security or I'm gonna
call the cops I'm gonna try to break
contact as a private citizen it's not
let's go out into the parking lot to
have a fight it's no let's just kind of
go and and get away from you break in
contact is what we want to do as a
private citizen and the other thing the
only thing that they did convict him of
here
is carrying a concealed firearm without
a license and so go get your license
friends if you're going to carry a
concealed firearm now I will say this
I'm a little bit surprised because of
the actions here that he was not charged
with assault because it looks to me for
sure like he started the physical
aggression and he escalated it from a
verbal confrontation to a physical
confrontation now of course if you know
if he's smart his attorney is going to
say well he was under imminent threat of
attack and so you don't have to wait
until you're actually attacked in order
to defend yourself from that if you
reasonably believe that you're in the
process of being imminently attacked
okay fine but this is dangerous stuff
don't escalate from verbal to physical
and you may not have to escalate it from
physical to deadly and this is another
reason again to carry an OC spray maybe
you make this completely go away without
getting in a big kind of fight like this
now he's in a standing grappling fight
with a guy and he has a firearm on his
person so something that you got to
really think of here as we change over
to the other view is now he's in a
standing grappling fight with what looks
to me to be kind of one overhook and
he's pummeling under for an underhook
well let listen one of the things you
want to work on in your grappling
training is your firearm retention if
you're carrying a firearm whether it's
appendix or strong side how do you
protect that from somebody who is trying
to take it I will tell you again and
again we see carrying up in front in
front of your hips appendix is so much
easier to protect that firearm rather
than carrying one back behind the hip so
those skills though don't come free you
gotta actually practice them and learn
the technique and you got to learn that
technique on the mats so make sure that
you get out there on the mats and you do
that now if you notice here Jalen Craig
ends up you know kind of looking to me
like this is certainly a furtive gesture
like he is like threatening or beginning
to draw a firearm so I think this is
probably where the prosecutor says hey I
don't think Beyond a reasonable doubt
that I can prove that this wasn't
self-defense because we've got multiple
guys that are in this fight one of whom
certainly to a reasonable person appears
that he is drawing a firearm and that
would put a reasonable person at fear of
death or great bodily harm so that's why
he draws his firearm and gets it into
the fight okay fine I think that that's
pretty good although the problem is of
course he started the physical
confrontation so he may not have had
that defense available to him secondly
of course his wife gets involved here
and gets in between him I can't tell you
enough please teach your spouse to to be
part of your self-defense team and if
they don't have significant defensive
skills to get the heck out and even at
this point it being a physical
confrontation had she come in there with
some good OC spray and just blessed all
the deserving then this probably
evaporates into a bunch of people
bellyaching about their eyeballs hurting
and and you know having to deal with the
after effects of the hot sauce you know
how much I love OC as a long range I
poke to allow you to break contact to
get to a place where you don't have to
draw a gun now that said like do you
think it was a good thing here that he
ends up you know again stopping shooting
so he shot when he thought he needed to
and stopped there and then he put his
gun away when he felt like he didn't
need it anymore okay fine and he did
stay and cooperate with authorities
which I think was a good part of the
district attorney saying ah there's no
way that I'm probably going to convict
this guy
okay fine I'm not saying anything else
that the guy does is decent but I do
think that this is a good defensive use
of force in the moment probably of the
the the defensive gun use but let's make
sure that we're good saying sober moral
and prudent people let's make sure that
part of that if you live in a state that
requires a concealed carry permit is to
get one certainly in Most states you can
get one and it's shall issue across the
land now so get that premise you don't
even have to worry about that garbage
charge from the district attorney of
carrying a concealed firearm without a
permit because that shouldn't be the
case anywhere in the nation anymore so
make sure you've got that do the good
sane sober moral prudent thing
de-escalate escape and evade when you
can and if at all possible because
that'll keep you out of gun fights and
problems and help you better cover your
aspect