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protection lesson I'm your host John
Korea today's lesson comes to us from
Hudson Florida and it shows an armed
robbery where the clerk just plain ain't
having it make sure to go read the news
story on this one this guy who's walking
in has actually just driven up to the
drive-thru window of a bank just a few
minutes before and demanded money but
they didn't give him any and so he drove
away and now he comes to this food Mark
and he's going to kind of totter on up
to the counter here and what we're going
to see is is is we're going to see him
kind of try to hide his face a little
bit and then the clerk is going to come
up and again uh it's hard we don't have
any audio here but he tells the clerk
that he has a gun and he wants money and
the clerk's like I'm sorry what you can
see this is not a little guy and he says
hey give me all the money that you have
I have a done and the clerk's not buying
it though as he's kind of sitting there
going I'm sorry what now you're going to
see the clerk actually come around the
counter and he said that he hoped that
the guy kind of showed his hands a
little bit and he did so the guy puts
him in a choke hold there and literally
just drags him to the door by his neck
and takes him outside and
unceremoniously dumps him on his face
and then tells him to get out of there
and to never come back now again from
the news story this one gets a little
weirder you're going to see this guy
kind of stumble his way up and go off
and the news story says that he actually
drove over to a dry cleaner and demanded
money from the dry cleaners who ran off
to go get help and he told uh somebody
trying to help her that he had a gun and
then the cops are still looking for him
I got to admit the first time or two I
watched that I kind of chuckled if you
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a lesson out of today's video I want to
think about a threat with an implied
tool versus a visible tool I also want
to think about waiting your turn and
closing the distance and the importance
of empty-handed skills this is one of
the weirder ones that I've seen in a
long time but as he comes up you know
I'm just speeding this up for the sake
of time I want you to notice a couple
things here that number one the clerk is
a big dude and so sometimes that makes
things just a little bit different that
the guy comes up and says hey I have a
gun though and he goes wait a minute do
you really have a gun and is every claim
believable now I will say this as a
default I want you to believe what
somebody says because if you're wrong
you got big problems but notice right
here you can see that the robber's right
hand is on the counter and if about 85
to 90% of Americans are right-handed
this dude threatening him with a gun
probably does not have one now I'm not
going to say certainly he doesn't have
one but probably he doesn't have one
because if he did he would be holding it
or checking it or have shown it at some
level we do see this all the time in
armed robberies that they will show a
gun and then put the gun away but if you
never see him have one chances are at
least decent that he may not have one at
all so the clerk has a clue there and I
my guess is he's paying attention and he
just felt like this guy had absolutely
nothing to do with him but notice that
his hands are in his pockets here so as
the clerk is coming around to him he did
put his right hand back in his pocket
and we have not seen his left hand so my
suggestion here from a self-defense
tactics perspective from the perspective
of what are my priorities if you're
going to close distance with this guy
you need to watch that left hand because
in in environments like this that are
weaponized environments you don't know
what he has on him and those kind of
things you have to recognize that he
very well could have something in that
left hand and when the clerk comes
around with his left arm to get him in a
choke hold that was an opportunity that
the other guy had if he wanted to
thankfully he didn't but you want to
watch those things now you can see both
of his hands here but recognize again
that from a tactics perspective you put
somebody in a rear naked like that with
their hands free they have the ability
to get into their pockets to get to
their waste and that could be highly
problematic now do you need to know how
to do these things well yes I do think
that understanding you know whether you
want to do a rear naked choke or you
know a lateral vascular neck restraint
which are slightly different things you
know and have those kind of things in
your toolbox sure that's kind of very
good and very you know helpful tools to
have and empty-handed skills are
important but you got to make sure that
you know where the hands are first now
once he knows where this guy's hands are
now this guy's just going to go dump
this dude on his butt and I get it he's
angry he doesn't want anything to do
with this guy however that said this guy
here is now going to go off and be a
threat to someone else and by dumping
him out there like that and not knowing
what's on him you do put yourself at
risk now I don't know if this clerk had
some other interactions with this guy
that he was just recognizing hey man I
have absolutely no fear of him
whatsoever but he's certainly acting
like somebody who has zero concern for
what that guy might have that he's just
a total BS artist and that might be the
case or he could get up here and be
angry at the disrespect and actually
have a gun on him so I would suggest
you're going to do something like this
fine but make sure you shake that guy
down real good at least know what's in
his pockets and of course in this
instance would it have been a good thing
to hold this guy for the cops well maybe
I don't generally recommend holding
somebody for the police because of the
inherent danger of that and all the
legal complications and those kind of
things as well as the personal
complications but recognizing that he's
going to go back off to his car and the
fact of the matter is he may have
something in his car as well you
definitely want to get on the phone with
911 this is one of the otter ones that
I've seen in a long time I'm really
grateful that the clerk had a great
attitude he had some empty-handed skills
he definitely handled the threat but
there were some dangers here so let's be
aware of him so that we can cover our
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