in the words of my friend Chuck Haggard
I strongly recommend that you have a
tool between a harsh word and a gun
welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa here at active
self-protection we post a new video
every single day on YouTube to better
help you protect your family from
criminal violence today's video comes to
us from Houston Texas in the United
States shows us a robbery by force here
that has some interesting lessons
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self-protection training so this guy
kind of be bopping in ends up being our
perp and it's kind of interesting to me
he almost looks like as he opens the
door here that he's kind of respectful
and lets somebody else out or he's
interested in that when the clerk opens
the door this is what we call strong-arm
robbery he just reaches over and starts
grabbing cash out of the till and the
clerk's not about that life he's like
nah man I'm not gonna let you grab the
money out of the till or whatever slams
the til closed and now he's trying to
call for help now our robber here again
is not armed that I can see he's not
actually perpetrating violence on the
clerk at this point he's just trying to
use his size and get in there and grab
stuff well the clerk being they're not
willing to let him do that he starts to
walk off notice the bystander they're in
danger as well
she finally runs off there and he's
gonna come back at this point and grab
the entire cash box which the clerk's
like okay I'm not gonna fight you for I
think that was probably a great decision
then he's gonna run off with it and he
kicks it down the road they're like he's
playing soccer with it and notice here
as he gets there in there he's gonna
actually pull it out of the box
apparently they're still looking for him
now let's think again and just see it
really quickly he grabs a bunch of cash
as the clerk's making change for the
other customer and that makes the clerk
grab back at him as well and he used I
think his thigh to close the register
and he's calling for help here but I
don't think that's gonna help him any
and notice that our you know our robber
is still trying to get that out of there
I don't know why he didn't come around
the counter I'm grateful that he didn't
but that the fact that it takes him that
long he finally gets a little frustrated
starts to back off but then changes his
mind now I'm gonna be able to go back
there and get the actual till out of
there and because the other guy is not
willing to stop him at that point maybe
he said something to him I don't know
there's no audio but he's able to get it
and get the wires off it and then run
off thankfully does not appear anyone
was hurt
here news story says they weren't and
that is where this one ends crazy stuff
out of this one got a question for you
out of it and that is do you carry a
less lethal tool on you I know a lot of
our fans are concealed carrier's that's
awesome I am too but do you carry a less
lethal tool a pepper spray a Taser a
kubaton anything like that I certainly
do and highly recommend it it's first
lesson I want to talk about in today's
video keeping a less lethal tool on your
person I also want to think about the
countertop and how to use it in your
self-defense and as a bystander about
getting the heck out of the danger zone
a lot of interesting stuff in this one
this attack happens as what we call a
strong-arm robbery this is not an armed
robbery so the guy doesn't flash a
weapon he doesn't say hey I'll cut you
or I'll shoot you give me that stuff he
doesn't threaten or intimate that he has
a weapon he just goes for what he wants
in this case it's the money in the till
so that makes this a strong-arm robbery
now I will say this in most states what
this means is a strong-arm robbery
without the threat of violence so we
didn't try to punch him in the face or
anything like that is probably not a
justification for the use of deadly
force it is the justification for the
use of force anywhere though so having a
robust empty handed skillset and I think
having a less lethal tool on you like I
carry a pepper spray every single day
and I do so for this reason because this
is a perfect place to use a pepper spray
to get that sucker out and hose this guy
down now I want you to notice the
bystander here is well on the right hand
side at the bottom and I can't tell you
enough this bystanders just she's just
hanging around like oh what's going on
everything's okay here no everything's
not okay if you're not directly involved
in solving the problem or you're not
being directly threatened get the heck
out of there I know your stuff is on the
countertop guess what the store will
replace it or even if they won't replace
it this is a violent encounter get the
heck out of the danger zone don't stand
around this is normalcy bias at work and
the bystander effect at work get the
heck out of there instead now notice
that the counter represents a pretty
good opportunity for the clerk here to
protect himself and have an advantage
but he has to use that advantage and he
chooses not to in this instance again I
just can't tell you enough having that
counter there is a good thing for him
but this is his opportunity to get that
that OC spray out and bless the
deserving with the hot sauce or use his
empty-handed skills if he chooses to you
I'd strongly prefer a less lethal tool
like an OC spray or you know something
like a conductive energy weapon
something like that to get him out of
there thankfully this is just a
strong-arm robbery dude isn't interested
in beating anybody up or anything like
that so nobody got hurt I hope the cops
find him but let's learn some lessons
here so that we can better cover our ASP
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