if you can tell the difference between a
real force multiplier and a fake one
that's a big help T as a self defender
welcome to today's active self
protection lesson I'm your host John
Correa today's video comes to us from
Paterson New Jersey in the United States
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this group of Utes that is just
gathering outside this Paterson New
Jersey store and you could see them just
kind of wandering around and looking or
whatever they're gonna decide to go in
here all four of them
I just spent that first part up just for
the sake of time but now all four of
them are gonna come in a first guy's
gonna draw a handgun and they're gonna
get three of them inside one of them is
gonna stand at the door there and the
guys going to point a gun at the first
clerk who's one of the owners now the
other guy recognizes in the red shirt
there hey wait a minute that gun is fake
he said in the news story linked in the
description that he was pretty sure that
gun was fake II knew it was because he
could see was an airsoft gun so he gets
a bottle and he threatens the guy with
it a couple times but now that guy's
partner shows up with a big old machete
and the guy in the red shirt in that
interview says that one was not fake and
I knew it wasn't fake so he's like hey
man I don't want any problems or
whatever now now these guys here are
looking for something now the crazy part
of that is they're actually looking for
a safe that they've seen in the back of
the store that if you go watch the news
that I've linked in the description they
said that they didn't actually have the
key to that safe they just bought it and
it was empty but the bad guys didn't
know that so this guy's gonna decide he
tried to threaten that guy with the gun
a little bit decided hey man I don't
want any problems they're gonna actually
grab this safe and you're gonna see him
on the right hand side you can see the
door there and they're actually gonna
grab it up and run out now if you were
paying attention there was actually a
customer in there and he ran out as well
they're gonna grab this safe and now the
guys have what they want and they are
gonna run out and run away with a safe
that literally has nothing in it which
is kind of crazy if you think about it
now then you what you're gonna see here
is a bystander who comes up in his car
and sees these guys running off and
stops and here in just a second the
owner is going to come outside of the
store as this guy is gonna jump out of
the car and be like oh man is everybody
okay or whatever and now the owners
gonna come out and say hey they went
that way go get him and he's going
chase them and try to chase them down
but police are still looking for them
and that is where this one ends crazy
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let's get to the lessons so I want to
begin this one by thinking about you
know leaving the windows of your
establishment especially if you're in a
transitional space like a convenience
store as open as you can so you might be
able to see things coming a little way
away and have a little bit more
knowledge of what's coming notice that
was hard for them because they have all
the stuff in the windows and all those
things now then for guys coming in
multiple attackers not an uncommon
occurrence in an actual deadly force
encounter you got to be ready to do that
and I also want us to notice that he
comes in with a gun and uses the
leveraging arm I see the leveraging arm
used all the time now in this case used
it a little bit interesting they
actually grabbed a hold of him to hold
him by the counter but notice that our
our first inclination of the guy in the
blue fedora is to go for that gun and
and to deflect it away from him which i
think is a natural inclination but if
you don't deal with that leveraging arm
he just has the ability to pull that gun
away from you no problem so we say this
all the time if you're gonna go after
the gun you have to do something with
the leveraging arm you cannot ignore it
because otherwise was exactly what
happens is what happens there and he's
just gonna pull that back and go for it
now I love the guy in red shirt that he
recognizes this is not a real gun now if
you really have some understanding great
not right now if you're gonna not really
know that for sure I would suggest that
you just think that it is a real gun
unless you absolutely know otherwise you
see like Daisy on the side of it or
something like that you know it's a BB
gun or something great now notice as
well that he used an environmental
weapon he's got a bottle in his hand
from the store okay now I'd strongly
prefer actual purpose-built tools but
these guys are in the state of New
Jersey in the state of New Jersey you
know has a bunch of subjects instead of
citizens and the gun control laws are
ridiculous
so I'd strongly recommend that you have
an actual tool on you that's a
purpose-built tool but if you can't hey
man it's better than nothing now when he
realizes okay this guy is getting an
issue now we recognize that the machete
though is not fake so against multiple
attackers you've got to assume that more
than one of them is armed and so every
time you add an attacker up to three I
think you or increase a difficulty by an
order of magnitude each time in other
words two bad guys that are about ten
times harder than a single
to defend against three or more is
another ten times harder than that so a
hundred times harder then against a
single guy now that definitely lessens
if you have something like a firearm on
your person which again I highly
recommend but difficult for citizens of
the state of New Jersey so they're at a
significant disadvantage here even if
it's against the machete boy I don't
want to fight a guy with the machete if
I don't have a significant empty handed
skillset great reason to have that and
again great reason to have a distance
tool like a firearm now these guys are a
bunch of idiots they think this safe has
a bunch of money in it when it doesn't a
couple things I want you to notice look
at what our grab man is doing over on
the right or our doorman on the right
hand side is he's looking out so you got
to watch that doorman in a significant
way now back to the guy in the red shirt
notice he thinks he has a little bit of
an opportunity here that the man with
the gun of the airsoft gun or the BB gun
or whatever is distracted so he's
thinking about launching that counter
ambush with that bottle which is great
but when I say you could not only do
have to wait your turn but you have to
take your turn he had several
opportunities there but because he
waited maybe a little too long to have a
better opportunity then it didn't come
and that guy's gonna pay attention to
him here could have put them all at risk
and you have to consider the guy with
the machete as well in this that's
pretty significant stuff now I want you
to see what goes down here in just a
second notice that we're gonna have our
bad guys notice that we have a victim
who just snuck out the door great job
they're getting out of the danger zone
and going hey man I'm not involved in
this my hands are up and I'm gone he got
out of the danger zone I think that was
absolutely the right thing to do if you
are a bystander you don't necessarily
have to stay in there if you can get out
get out now the bad guys are gonna flee
okay fine
boy what a scary thing you you've gotten
them out of here and honestly they
haven't gotten away with hardly anything
so just let them go now the one thing I
will say is what we see the owner do
here is he's gonna chase these guys
outside guys don't chase fleeing felon
so we know that these guys are armed we
don't know the bad guys that they have
with them we don't know what their
capability is so just let them go
especially they know they have
surveillance for footage of these guys
better instead of chasing these guys off
down the block where you put yourself in
additional jeopardy to hunker down lock
the door call 911 get the cops on the
way I see people get injured hurt killed
all the time when they're chasing
fleeing felons and I just recommend that
you don't do it so let's get some
lessons here on setting up our space
let's also think about the distance of
our tools
the importance of understanding the
leveraging arm the danger of multiple
attackers and never chasing fleeing
felons as we seek to cover our ass
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