when someone's coming at you with a
knife clearly distance is your best
friend
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host
john korea today's video comes to us
from buenos aires in argentina
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i've spent the beginning up here for the
sake of time look at the bottom of the
screen this guy's standing next to the
table there and just
ranting and if you go read the original
this goes on for
several minutes that he's just ranting
at random no no nobody's
but making threats and stuff like that
so a couple people like flagged down
some police officers who were patrolling
in the area
while this guy is freaking out and
you're gonna see now as a different
angle from the left these guys start
jogging over to check this guy out and
see what he's doing
now when he notices them coming over
what you're going to see
is that he actually puts his backpack
down here and
is going to get a big hunk and knife out
of that backpack
and now you're going to see him here
that finally that's going to make this
this guy sitting at the table next to
him kind of get up and like oh geez what
the heck is going on here
and the guy pulls a big old knife out
and these officers you can see the one's
got a gun in his hand already
and and they're like hey man we need you
to put that down they start giving some
ground to him
as they approach him now watch what goes
down is he's going to walk them down a
little bit
now the officer who's closer to us right
now he's going to decide he's going to
go for that guy
reach out touch him right there and stab
him and that causes the officer to shoot
him in the leg
where he keeps coming at him for
multiple steps actually stabs him a
second time
and that second stab i think actually
proved to be
fatal to the officer and so uh our guy
here with a bullet hole in his leg
survived that bullet hole in the leg
certainly it didn't do
a very good job of stopping him our
officer now is going to lay down
he's succumbed to his injuries at the
hospital and we have a lot of lessons
we're going to think about out of this
one
man super difficult outcome here
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here at the beginning if you're sitting
at this table and this guy is ranting
and raving and makes you feel
uncomfortable get up and move just get
the heck out of the way
great reason to have your own defensive
tools on you as well again
i mean even something he doesn't
necessarily have a weapon in his hand or
anything like that but i certainly would
have staged my oc spray
got into a better location not let this
guy sit there like that
uh and and just rant and make me feel
all kinds of uncomfortable now they did
flag these officers down so they come up
that's great you better be thinking
about that okay we have an emotionally
disturbed person how we gonna make
contact with this person
so that we can hopefully try to build
rapport and affect his behavior
and and not have any problems with him
well of course when he gets out a big
old knife now we're not talking about
the escalating anymore now we're talking
about defending the pot you know
everybody and trying to get this guy
into custody
so i do want you to note that the
officer has his gun out and in his hand
right now
and i think that's a great choice you
see a guy pull a knife like hey man i'm
not going to get
stabbed by you i i have a firearm for a
reason
and carrying your firearm very very
smart and keeping your distance very
smart you got to recognize what your
advantages and disadvantages are here
and the biggest advantage of a firearm
of course is distance it has a
functionally infinite range and a
defensive encounter
as opposed to a knife which is a very
short range so keep that distance
however the bad guy gets a vote and
that's the biggest thing we're going to
learn here
is is how quickly the distance can close
and about the ineffectiveness of leg
shots
so so we're going to see them here give
some ground i think that's a really good
thing
and right now they actually have a
pretty darn good what we call an
l-shaped ambush set up here
and i know it's not truly an l-shaped
ambush but it really says hey wait a
minute we have you know the ability to
affect this guy from multiple angles and
that is
really important but our officer is
going to sneak around this motorcycle
and
for whatever reason he's going to choose
right here to attack him now i know we
talk about this all the time with you
know the 21 foot rule or the tuller
principle or those things
but remember what that principle is it's
about moving your feet and the officer
does a pretty good job of that here but
i
really want us to note that you're
moving backwards the purpose moving
forwards he is gonna close that distance
and you have a gun in your hand
dude charges at you with a knife you
gotta have
the mental fortitude to to put the front
sight on the center mass and press the
trigger he didn't and it cost him his
life here and that's really one of our
biggest lessons
because as he comes in you see how
easily he is able here to close that
distance
that the officer you know just even with
a gun in his hand
starts backing up rather than use the
gun while he's backing up and that was a
fatal mistake because the guy's able to
reach out close that distance in a
matter of about a second second and a
half even with the officer backing up
and then you know make a fatal blow to
him really so now let's see what the
officer does in response is what you're
going to see
is he actually puts his gun out and
shoots the guy in the leg right here leg
shots are a terrible idea
against the deadly threat really at all
because number one you've got the
femoral artery running down each leg
you can bleed out from that artery very
quickly so it's not really any less
lethal to shoot somebody in the leg but
bigger issue here
and we see it here in graphic detail is
the fact of the matter that the guy
doesn't stop is he's able to come in and
stab him again after being shot in the
leg
so it's completely ineffective much less
effective than a center mass shot
and not any less lethal so it's it's
very much not to be used so because this
guy is up
and yeah he's kind of hobbling a little
bit but for a full three and a half
seconds he's still
able to stay up reach out right here he
is going to reach in close
and he is then going to actually stab
the officer right before he goes down
now here he's finally going down but it
took him about three and a half seconds
to go down and in the interim he's
actually able to reach out a second time
and stab the officer fatally even though
he was wearing a ballistic vest
for my my law enforcement viewers
remember your bulletproof vest is almost
certainly
not stab resistant unless it's rated for
slashing and stabbing and a lot of them
are not so make sure you check your vest
on that
so he was wearing a vest but it wasn't
stab rated and so therefore he got
stabbed
so so a couple things on that okay leg
shot's terrible idea because the guy can
be a deadly threat for a long time
next thing here this officer is mortally
wounded and nobody's paying attention to
his wounds
this is why you have first aid equipment
on you and first aid skills i don't know
if they could have saved him here
but certainly waiting 30 seconds or
whatever to start giving him aid
did not help the matter at all make sure
that you're up on your first aid you
might need it on any given day
finally of course you've got to have
spiritual fitness guys you've got to
know that you've said everything you
need to say to your loved ones
and you've solved every conflict you can
and they know you love them and that you
and jesus have a strong relationship and
you've solved every conflict with him
that you had
and that you know that he loves you
because you will need it on that day and
may not have time to get it
so let's make sure that we've got the
lessons here about the true nature of
the tudor principle
about why leg shots are a terrible idea
and why we got to watch the distance
against the knife-wielding attacker as
we seek to cover our asp