today we have two armed robberies that
show us that no one is coming to save
you
hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i am your
host as always john korea today's video
two of them out of houston texas throne
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next range trip in this first one clerk
is inside of a protective kind of cage
here but watch our perp he's going to
kind of pretend like he's going to get
himself or actually get himself some
soda here and he's going to think about
that and he's going to check the door oh
that door is open and so he's going to
walk off come back a second later
probably after talking to the two
accomplices that are just outside of the
frame think about for a little while
getting a little bit of soda and then go
nah i'm going to go ahead and pull my
gun instead and open this door and then
tell the clerk that there's a robbery
and announce that to the clerk and tell
him that i want all the money and tell
him i want all of it quickly now i'm
kind of letting this play just for the
sake of seeing it now his second partner
comes up pulls a gun with a big old
stendo out of it he's going to point it
at him as well and then make the clerk
go get these guys the money and we don't
get to see exactly what happens on that
this is the only camera angle of this
particular one that i got someone's
afterwards you'll see the third
accomplice in just a second but notice
that our guy is going to stay at
distance and he is going to be the
gunman the other guy is going to be the
grab man uh even though he had a gun too
going to get all the stuff out of the
till that they want there and once they
get all the things out of the till these
guys are gonna run off and run out of
the store gonna get their third
accomplice who is the doorman which we
see all the time as well and they're
gonna run off now our second one a
little bit differently than this one but
you see here it's in a cell phone store
this guy's mad because he couldn't get
uh the clerk to just hand him over his
cell phone so he hits a customer that
woman's a customer he just smacks her
upside the head and then he's getting
mad because again he's got
they've got display phones out but he
wanted to see the one in the box and the
clerk wouldn't give it to him so then he
gets mad about it i've sped this part up
for the sake of time because now he's
going to chase her a little bit now the
clerk and the customer go into a back
room close and lock the door and so he
is gonna actually then come and and i
think use a screwdriver or whatever to
open the register but there's no money
in it so he doesn't get any money he is
gonna see a couple of cell phones
sitting to the right of that and grab
those and run off cops haven't found
that guy we're gonna think lessons man
you gotta take steps to protect yourself
please take the appropriate steps to
protect yourself would you because if
you don't use the security measures
present it won't help let's think about
lessons big thing i wanna say on this
first one is that if you don't actually
use your security measures they're
useless it's security theater and so
look at the shark bump that this guy
does he just goes and checks oh is that
door actually functional so he's testing
the security now if that security had
been actually good i don't know if he
would have tried and seen wait a minute
can i break this down or whatever but
the fact of the matter is it's just
security theater he figures that out so
he figures he can do what the heck he
wants use the security measures that you
have in place those barriers can keep
you safe from harm i get it people don't
like doing that because they're in and
out or whatever but set it up so that
it's actually useful because otherwise
the guys that you actually are going to
worry about they won't fall victim to
that they won't be dissuaded by security
theater now of course this guy's going
to gonna gonna kind of come in here and
i want to notice a couple things about
this guy and that is number one as he
opens this up with a gun in his hand
notice that he is number one got two
hands on the gun number two he's
practicing good trigger discipline and
that's pretty important if if you are an
intended victim and you see this this
guy's not driving in he's he's not you
know uh throwing a gangster lien with
the gun or anything like that that tells
me he might be skilled that tells me he
might have some training that tells me
he knows that you know hey i might take
that gun away from him so he's got two
hands on it and doing those things this
is probably not a guy that you want to
mess with quite frankly
now he's not going to be perfect but
that's an indicator no all right i'm
just going to give him what he wants
i've he's got the drop on me or i got to
wait for him to go look somewhere else
if i'm gonna do something now this clerk
is very compliant now our dude here is
not entirely perfect because when his
buddy shows up he points a gun at his
back so he's not exactly a rock star a
firearm safety but he shows enough
competence here that i don't think
fighting him for that gun would have
been why so so paying attention even in
the midst of an armed robbery very wise
of course multiple attackers very
difficult here now this guy i want to
say this lady's just walking around
looking at stuff and he just reaches up
and smacks her upside the head out of
frustration that they didn't hand him a
phone in a box that my guess is is that
he was gonna steal and so they weren't
willing to do that so he took his
aggression and frustration out on
another customer so ladies that may be
why you get targeted it's not for
anything other than you're probably less
able to defend yourself and now what are
you going to do so so that's just him
taking his frustration out but she's
responsible for her own self-defense and
actually i kind of like what she does
here she turns to him and then gets some
space away from him and doesn't have to
do anything now i got to tell you if in
this case here i think an oc spray would
have been a very useful tool now i know
we can make an argument about whether or
not she could have drawn a firearm given
disparity of size and force and those
kinds of things but i think an oc spray
would have been very useful here yes
he's wearing a mask yes he has a hood on
but trust me you bless him across the
eyes with the hot sauce here soak that
stuff down and in a few seconds he is
not going to be interested in further
attacking you so i think having an oc
spray readily deployable is a very
useful tool for exactly this kind of
situation but she does get space and i
think that's very very good and gets
away from the danger zone i think the
clerk uses the the countertop to that
effect as well and knows that hey i have
a safe space i'd have gone into that
safe space a little earlier than she did
but she was able to do that and get away
from the danger so don't just run away
from danger run to safety and they did a
good job of that now this guy obviously
is not looking for money so that he can
afford the the entrance fee for his
mensa membership you know but he is
dangerous so you want to make sure you
get out of the danger zone and recognize
no one's coming to save you
your defense is up to you you're the
only one who can cover your asp