as a self defender you gotta know not
only the skills to defend yourself but
you got to keep thinking so that you do
so in smart ways welcome to today's
active self protection lesson I'm your
host John Correa today's video comes to
us from Huntsville Alabama in the United
States after thorough testing I recently
changed my everyday OC spray to Palm
personal defense spray it's nasty stuff
and I recommend it highly when this one
begins the robberies already in progress
you can see the robber there's got a
knife out what he's done is he went to
try to buy something earlier came back
and announced a robbery with a knife and
if you look the clerk actually has a
machete which is even longer than the
bad guy's knife and now they're gonna
argue about it and start going back and
forth and kind of looks like a
swashbuckling sword fight here have at
you you scurvy dog and they're going to
kind of point at each other and keep
each other at bay and you could see the
clerk is actually on the phone
trying to get police there he's called
9-1-1 now I've sped this up double speed
for the sake of time if you go watch the
original this fight is going to last I
think about six and a half almost seven
minutes that they're in each other's
presence and you can see here that
they're gonna try to kind of get after
each other a little bit but neither
one's willing to commit big enough to
really get after each other and and
they're gonna have a little bit more you
can see they're trying to use this stuff
between them and what happened there was
the clerk actually closed the door and
locked it where the bad guy can't get
out of the door so he's gonna start
bashing on the door and I think used one
of the display cases to finally break
the frame on the door while our clerk is
on the phone with police and trying to
get them there and as we're gonna change
perspective here in just a moment you're
gonna see the guy actually get the door
open and if you watch he's actually
gonna bust the door out of its frame and
and our clerk is actually gonna follow
him outside looks like he tried to hit
him there now he hits his girlfriend
with the flat side of his machete and
then goes to work on their car and if
you go read the news story linked in the
description the clerk said he wanted the
car to be well marked enough that the
police knew who it was and so he's just
gonna go to absolute work on this car
try to get inside there ended up hitting
the girlfriend over the head with his
machete now while he's focused on the
car the bad guy goes and gets the
mr. open which is what he wanted anyways
and get some money out of the till now
he's gonna come back out again and now
there's the Arctic it's just going to
work on this guy's car busting out
windows and hammering his stuff and so I
just think it's hilarious that the bad
guys even if they had gotten completely
away with this the new windows in their
car are way more expensive than maybe
the couple hundred bucks tops that they
got out of the till now while they're
trying to figure out what to do with
this guy he's just gonna bash out every
window in the car both the windshields
and the rearview you know the rear
window and and just go after him now you
see the girlfriend's got the knife and
now she wants to have a little bit and
if you go to the new story neither of
them were badly injured in this beyond
some just immediate first aid but the
guy in the car actually tried to go
after him they're in the car now she is
going to finally decide now this isn't
worth it try to kind of wave him off but
again neither of them are really willing
to get into an actual sword fight here
and now they go off screen for a second
they are gonna run off police actually
caught these these two robbers a little
ways down the road they're facing a host
of charges the clerk was not badly hurt
and that's where this one ends come on
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your area as we walk back through this
one there's a few things that I really
want to focus I'm not gonna stop a whole
lot here but one of the first things I
want to say is is that you want to have
the longest range force multiplier that
you can as a self defender because our
clerk here has a machete and that is at
best a medium range tool but you notice
here that that the bad guy on the other
hand has a knife as well now listen the
fact and look and see that our bad guy
is also feigning here that he has a gun
you could see he's got his hand in his
pocket he's pointing it like hey man I
got a gun - gimme your stuff now of
course we know because we've watched the
whole thing that this was a bluff but I
don't know that the clerk knew that in
the moment yeah and so you know whatever
bad guys says they have a tool I would
say that I'm gonna trust that they
actually do and that they are willing to
use it and so I want to have the longest
range tool that I possibly can which of
course I would prefer to have a firearm
and that is certainly capable of doing
here in this location but you gotta know
you're in limitations now next thing
here is you see these guys actually
having at it a little bit but neither
I'm really willing to commit you gotta
know how to use the tools that you have
and thankfully neither of them really
did but that's a significant problem now
here what we see is the clerk closes the
door this is where he reached over and
pushed the automatic lock on the door
it's got a magnetic lock on it so now
the bad guy can't get out I think this
was a significant mistake I get it that
he's trying to keep the guy there for
the cops I get it that he's saying hey
this guy's a robberies threatened me
with a knife I want him to face those
sanctions but he knows that he's got all
kinds of surveillance cameras around
here get a description of the bad guy
get a description of his car and don't
put yourself at this significant risk
one of the big things that I see that
happens here all this time is our good
guy here our clerk is at significant
risk from this robber who might very
well want to hurt him now he's kind of
negotiating with him here so it doesn't
look like a hardcore bad guy to me
however this is a significant risk to
the clerk also I don't think it makes
any financial sense to keep the guy in
there because you might say well wait a
minute I'm trying to protect myself and
I think he was protecting himself with
the machete and I got no problems with
that at all but in reality of things
gonna cost him way more than then a
couple hundred bucks in the till to even
have the insurance deductible for all
the property damage that was done
because of this incident so sometimes
the best thing to do again get things
closed if you can but let the bad guy
get away and don't try to hold him there
because that's where these problems
happened now then bad guy is gonna
finally get out the door and our clerk
is going to chase him out the door and I
really don't recommend this because he's
gonna head out here to see what's going
on and increase his problems in so doing
again don't chase deadly threats just
let him go
now he uses this machete and he uses the
flat of the machete against the thigh of
this robbers accomplice now I think this
is an interesting point because you can
use and we see this all the time
especially in Central and South America
people using machetes and using the flat
of them as an intimidation tool that
takes a pretty high level of skill to
use effectively but I think if you can
articulate why you do something like
that you're trying to force compliance
and using the flat rather than the blade
you might be able to get away with
saying that that was non-lethal force it
was instead physical force but you
better know what you're doing to do that
and you better have a high level of
skill and I don't know that that's
present here now marking the car up and
all that stuff I think is
bupkis get the license-plate number
that's the best way to understand what
the car is if you know what the
license-plate number on the car is
that's fine now the second part of that
is that when she comes over towards him
the news story says she has a knife I
don't actually see a knife on her and
other than the thing that she threw at
him but when she comes over his way here
he doesn't use the flat of the blade he
actually uses the edge of it and it does
cut her hand now that could be construed
as deadly force you better have
objective reasonable evidence that she
is a deadly threat to you to use a
machete as a deadly force implement
against her and again I don't think I
think he's going to get the benefit of
the doubt because he's the one that's
attacked her but we do want to act
reasonably in the moment now as well you
know the bad guy ended up getting what
he wanted so all of this is punitive in
nature in my opinion and I would not
recommend it in these cases the reason
for that more than anything else is I
get it that the clerk is angry but when
he's basically punishing here and trying
to show them oh yeah well you're gonna
get away with a little bit of money but
I'm gonna beat the crap out of your car
now again I know he said that that's
because he wanted the police to be able
to identify it but the better way to do
that is just get the license plate and
get away from there and get away from
that problem this is also another
argument here that I don't want a
machete and you know that's going to get
me into a have at you close-range fight
with an armed attacker but rather I'd
rather have a firearm where I can get
some distance keep some distance away
from somebody with a short-range tool
and protect myself so I think this
clerk's attitude is absolutely exemplary
I think that you know the guy is not
going to take any crap and he is not
going to be a victim and I applaud him
for that I think some skills and some
plan would actually go along way here so
then that way he's got a better tool
with him he knows how to use it better
he knows the steps that he's going to
take let's all not chase deadly threats
let's make sure instead that we act
reasonably and responsibly all the time
and do the things that protect ourselves
as we cover our ASP
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