Sometimes you get a little bit of time to prepare for a deadly force encounter, but sometimes it comes on you all at once
Hi everyone, this is John with today's active self-protection lesson out of Baltimore, Maryland here
We're going to see an armed robbery stopped by an on-duty
Baltimore police officer who happens to be in the right place at the right time it's going to teach us important lessons about
Surviving an armed robbery about transitional spaces and about using your firearm
Effectively and quickly in the moment of need our perp is going to come in from the left here in the blue hoodie
And he is gonna walk in and you're gonna
See he's got a sawed-off shotgun in his right hand as he walks into this convenience store as he comes up to the counter
I've sped it up for the sake of time
He's gonna threaten the clerk with that and be like hey, give me the stuff now. It's kind of funny
He takes this lady who's just bought some things and slides it over to her to take from the counter while he waits for his
Money, and then he's gonna take off
We have another angle of it here as it gives this lady her stuff, which again
I think is hilarious, and then he grabs his money
And he goes, but the car that pulled up is a Baltimore police officer
And so we're gonna see first again the woman come out here
and as the bad guy comes out our officers gonna climb out as well and put shots on this guy and
Take him out now. We have badge cam from the officer as well. We're gonna. See how fast it comes out here
Just that quick he had to see that there was a threat. He had to draw his firearm used
It effectively and ended the threat there, and then he has to take appropriate follow-up actions and so man
What a lucky thing to have the officer there at the police at the right time think about this one from some lessons number one
I see as this guy comes in again a transitional space and as you see him go in look at the guy
That's sitting by the door there. He gets up, and he bounces, great idea. Don't stay in the danger zone
If you don't absolutely have to he got the heck out of there. Next, I love compliance in this instance
I think that that was really good. I would recommend if I was this lady
don't go back near the bad guy there unless you're gonna try to stop and just get the heck out of there and leave your
Stuff on the counter now our clerk. He just complies. Here's the money, bro
I don't have any problem, whatever
Now think about the fact that this guy has just looked out and seen the fact that there's a car pulled up
I don't know if he can see if it was a police car or not
But if he can well then that just shows us again, how stupid he is.
But if he can't now that police officer's got to figure out what the heck he's gonna do as well
Now for the officer that's pulling up
We gotta think about this too, he's been pulled in and I don't know if he has been pulled into the call
I'm not so sure about that, but as he gets out
He sees this guy of coming out with a shotgun
And he has to get after this guy now the lady who ran out look at how close
She is and she has to boogie out and we have another bystander who's not too far from the action as well
Which is why we always talk about firearm safety keep your fire and pointed in a safe direction
Now interesting from the officers perspective as he gets out noticed that he has to get out get his firearm out because he recognizes this
Guy gets it out gets a two-handed grip on it and that's important
he's got about a
Five or six yard shot to the door here about a car length 15 to 18 feet something like that and as the guy comes
Out you can see right there as we've stopped it. You can see that
He's still got that shotgun in his hand but think about the officers backstop here as well as the reason we talk about
Marksmanship and the importance of combat marksmanship because you certainly don't want to miss a shot not knowing if there's somebody on the other side
There now this guy starts moving to his right
But you can still see still got the shotgun in hand
Certainly still a threat so that's why you've got to continue to assess is the threat over, is the threat over, is the threat over?
It's not so he keeps shooting and now from this perspective here is he's starting to go down think about the backstop behind the officer
At this point when we know what the backstop is it's the clerk you got to watch your
Backstop friends and as soon as that threat is over the officer stops shooting
and I love that he looks around and
Breaks his focus on the threat itself to make sure that nobody else is you know threatening him too and he does a great job
There so very lucky to have the officer this close to on scene learn about compliance about transitional spaces out of this one about using
Your firearm effectively the officer sure did here to cover his A.S.P.
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