when a community steps up and protects
each other it makes criminals think
twice
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host as always john korea this one place
is a little confusing it comes to us
from california in trinidad so it's from
trinidad but the city of california
don't get confused magtech has
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max their ammo is the only ammo i run on
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wholeheartedly clerk is finishing a
transaction here opens up the register
and this guy decides he's just gonna
come in and he wants some money so he's
gonna start grabbing stuff and using his
big voice to say i want the money and
she's not gonna let him do that
immediately but he's just gonna get in
there and say no i'm taking it and
you're gonna see this other customer and
and the clerk get the heck out of there
because he's just strong arm robbing the
joint at this point you're gonna see him
just continue to do that as other people
are kind of standing around going what
in the heck are we gonna do with this
guy so after a couple minutes i've sped
this up for the sake of time watch what
goes down here as some of the the
clients have decided now they're gonna
stop this guy and start whacking him
over the head there with a crate and and
trying to keep him at bay now the news
story that i've linked in the
description doesn't mention that he had
any weapons or anything like that in
fact they said he used his voice as a
weapon rather than an actual tool or
anything like that but now you're gonna
see it is like hungry hungry hippos here
they're just bonking him on the head
with anything that they can find uh and
trying to keep him at bay and keep him
from getting away with a whole bunch of
money and and just see the chaos of this
it's it's funny it's like the keystone
cops kind of hard to see what's going on
here but we're going to change
perspectives in just a moment that they
go and get some long-handled like mops
or something like that and these two
guys start whooping on him with mops
there at this point and that disorients
him enough that they are going to push
him into a corner and hold him there
until authorities arrive and the bad guy
didn't get away didn't get any of the
money and that's where it ends holy
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first thing of interest here is the
start of this strong armed robbery that
when the clerk opens the till that's
when there's some danger and he decides
he's coming in now again just because he
doesn't have a weapon he's still a
strong armed robber here and threatening
everybody and i'm going to beat you up i
want to take your stuff whatever so i
don't mind the clerk especially the
female clerk here just getting the heck
out of the way i think that that's a
perfectly acceptable answer nope i'm not
gonna fight this guy it's not my money
it's a company money it's not worth me
you know taking a punch to the face or
whatever to save the company money i'm
just gonna get the heck out of there and
i think that's perfectly valid as a
solution now these other folks who
decide to get involved okay but you know
you again is it okay for you to step in
and use physical force to stop somebody
who is committing a strong armed robbery
the answer to that is yes legally
perfectly acceptable morally i think
acceptable as well and in fact i think a
moral good and i will say this is he's
using this you know this crate you know
it's one of these plastic milk crates i
still think that that's probably decent
proportional force because you want to
keep the guy off of him but at some
level you got to watch out for that
because at some level you ask is this
likely to cause him great bodily harm is
this going to put him in the hospital
probably not at that point with a milk
crate you're probably just causing him a
little bit of pain so i think that's
okay but but i do want us all to make
sure that we are using proportional
force right so when we're talking about
non-deadly force we have to use
proportional means and we have to
recognize that and i think they do an
okay job of that here and i love that
everybody is working together as a team
i think the big lesson here is if you're
going to stop this kind of thing holding
a person down by yourself more difficult
than you think it is if you haven't done
it go go roll jiu jitsu for a little
while you'll find out how difficult it
is hold somebody down who doesn't want
to be held down but working as a team
like these guys are right here i think
is great now notice as well they decide
to use some sticks with a little bit
more length but these are environmental
weapons not purpose-built weapons and so
they are going to be less effective
something that's not built as a force
multiplier is going to have a harder
time this is why i say i would strongly
recommend that you carry your own tools
i would have strongly preferred here
somebody want to stop this guy bless him
with the hot sauce and that'll just
diminish him significantly and probably
take the starch right out of his jammies
rather than having to whack him with the
milk crates and the you know the pinata
sticks and turn this guy into a pinata i
think having a purpose-built force
multiplier on you is a better idea but
the bigger thing here work together as a
team make sure that you're communicating
you know what each other is going to do
to to get this guy down to get the money
back from him or those kinds of things
of course i do want you to think about
whether it's wise that you should step
in for someone else's money it's not
like they're going to split that money
with you i think it's morally good i
think it protects your community but i
do think that it exposes you to risk so
make sure you've taken that risk into
account as you work to cover your asp