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John Correa today's video comes to us
out of Tampa Florida now I gotta be real
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clerks just minding his own business to
the store at the bottom of the screen
there when a bad guy walks in with a
face mask on it's got a big knife on his
left side clerk draws his sidearm and
holds it on him backs up from the
counter and and starts issuing commands
and thankfully the robber here is
absolutely not looking for a fight he
was bluffing and so now our good guy
starts issuing commands the back is like
okay man I don't want any problems you
can see he's very compliant here so he
is gonna get down on the ground now what
we're gonna see here is our good guys
caught a significant problem left a head
here because now what is he gonna do
with this guy who hasn't run off
he's instead complied and gotten on the
ground so he's gonna issue him some more
commands while he stays at distance from
him and that's gonna get the guy down on
his hands and knees then he's going to
prone out here and lay down but still
has his chest up want you to notice that
so he gets the guy to put his hands
kinda up by his ears at the very least
our good guy comes around to the side of
him here and is going to take what we
didn't really see very well when he was
coming up tries to get his backpack off
has a hard time with that but at least
kicks his big old knife away from him
looks like a gas station katana to me
kicks it a long way away from him now
what he's going to do here is go over
and grab his phone to call 911 and it's
gonna be a number of minutes I've sped
it up simply for the sake of time but
about four minutes on the phone cops are
on the way finally holds the guy here at
gunpoint puts his firearm away right
before officers arrived about 30 seconds
before the officers arrived these two
officers are going to take this
numbskull into custody now I haven't had
a billet II to get a news story on this
one may not have even made the news but
that's exactly where this one ends so if
you have more snooze on this one please
send it to me boy it was like he dropped
an ax no reverse on that guy and changed
that situation
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out of this one clerks just minding his
own business and yes he's on his phone
but I want you to looks like he's on his
phone at least he's goofing around the
computer but notice that he's still
paying attention to his world
door opens up to his store he is paying
attention to that he's not ignoring
those cues pay attention even in your
known environments especially in
transitional spaces like this but you
got to pay attention to your world would
have been even better that he'd been
occasionally looking out into the world
might have seen this guy on the parking
lot had more time yet now dude walks in
and you got to recognize oh okay what
kind of threat am I facing guys walking
towards me with a mask over his face now
we can't see because of the camera angle
here the fact that he has that big old
whatever gas station blowing knife on
his left side but I'm guessing that the
clerk could see that in this instance so
is it justified to draw firearm
absolutely guys a robber and absolutely
you have the right to defend yourself
now notice that he draws the firearm and
presents it and starts issuing commands
guy doesn't have anything in his hands
in the moment but is he a reasonable
physical threat absolutely not you got
to check your jurisdictional laws on
this one because every state's a little
different and even some cities are
different where I live in the state of
Arizona wouldn't have any problems with
this whatsoever because you can
defensively display a firearm under
threat of even physical force other
places may be a little different so it
consult with a lawyer in your
jurisdiction but he starts issuing
commands instead of shooting and I think
that was really wise here because he
backs up a little bit uses the
countertop space to give himself a
little space so that the bad guy can't
get his hands on the gun really wise and
now he starts issuing commands and
noticed that the bad guy now puts his
hands up in surrender so instead of
shooting he uses the firearm very
effectively gets it out as a tool to
force compliance that is a use of force
but not a use of deadly force in most
jurisdictions again I need you to check
your own legal statutes on that one
because things are different in
different places but was very wise of
him here even if he could have pressed
the trigger wise of him
to because it's gonna be far easier on
him from a legal perspective from the
follow-up perspective and those things
now guy guy submits ok cool now what are
you gonna do we would expect most armed
robbers to run off but this guy didn't
he instead decided ok man I'm just gonna
do whatever it is you say because I
thought this wasn't gonna go this way so
I do think you need to know how to take
someone into custody we're gonna talk
about that in a minute but notice that
our clerk here pushes the panic button
you can see right here with his left
hand reaches under his counter presses
the panic button which will get officers
hopefully coming pretty quickly however
that's four minutes from now so those
panic buttons in a significant sense are
kind of useless it assumes that the
robbers are gonna stick around for four
or five six minutes and that simply
never happens they're always gone before
that so while I'm not necessarily
against panic buttons I just want you to
recognize they're not going to keep you
safe they're not going to get the police
they're fast enough to save you from an
armed robbery you and only you are the
primary agent in your own rescue so you
better act like it and have the attitude
skills and plan for it now notice that
he's getting this guy here to kind of
get down I really want you to spend some
time and maybe even take a class on
using a firearm as a compliance tool and
getting somebody in a safe place now how
might that be to take somebody there and
form basically what this is is a
citizen's arrest and hold them until
police arrive what I want you to do is
get where they can't see you I don't
want his eyeballs on me I don't want him
to be able to see me and I want him to
interlace his fingers on top of his head
put his nose to the floor and and lock
his and ankles behind and cross his
ankles put his hands interlaced
interlaced fingers and then I think one
of the things that the clerk did very
well here is get to the side of this guy
where he cannot be an immediate threat
I've seen guys from this prone position
be able to get something out and get a
gun on target very quickly to the front
a little bit harder to the rear
especially if they don't know exactly
where you are so you want to get
yourself to a position that they don't
know where you are they can't see where
you are fingers interlaced behind their
head ankles interlaced and not looking
at you those are the keys to take
somebody into custody and to hold them
until police arrived
now he did take a risk here and trying
to get this backpack off the guy getting
the weapon away from him I do think
getting the weapon away from him was a
wise idea in this moment but again take
the precautions first to make sure that
he has as prone doubt as you can get so
then that way is less likelihood of
hold of him because this was a
significant danger in this moment this
bad guy had chosen that moment to try to
kick out him or to roll into him to try
to get that gun away from him and turn
the tables again this was a very
vulnerable moment and I want you to
recognize that as a self defender as a
time of high danger
so take the steps to minimize that
danger by properly getting him in a
controlled position before you take the
tool away from him which we can see
right there right underneath the the
good guys legs now he's gonna get away
from the guy think that's really wise
now notice here it's gonna take him
quite a while to get over and get to the
phone to get on the phone with 911 I
think that's a very wise thing to do you
want to win the battle to the phones
with 911 get on the phone with emergency
services as fast as you can and get help
on the way just recognize that you need
to communicate effectively what's going
on with them they're gonna ask what your
emergency is hey I've been the victim of
an armed robbery had somebody threaten
me here I need police response
immediately I am the good person I am
holding him he has complied with me he
threatened me with the knife and I need
police here right now I need him them
here immediately now notice a couple
things I'm sure the dispatchers who told
him to put the firearm away here and
after these four minutes he's gonna
decide to put that gun away but the cops
are still about 30 seconds out if you
choose to do that I think that it's a
very wise thing that when the dispatcher
says hey the police are there in our
on-scene yes put that firearm back away
but in your holster or even on the
counter but don't let the bad guy see
you do it it's 30 more seconds before
the cops show up here and are actually
in frame and those that's a time where
again because this bad guy you notice
that his head is up his hands are down
but he's seeing what's going on could
have launched a counter ambush so be
cautious of that but you don't want to
have a gun in your hand when the cops
show up because they may not know who
the good person and who the bad person
is so it's not a bad thing to get the
gun out of your hand before the cops
show up so then that makes everybody
feel good now officers are gonna get him
into custody and all is going to end
well here no shots were fired I think
this was a great defensive use of a
firearm that actually didn't involve
firing the firearm so it's not gonna
make it into any database it's not gonna
show up in any statistics but it was a
fantastic defensive gun use because he
had his firearm on his person rather
than under the counter
he had his attitude about him he had a
very good quick reliable draw knew how
to use his firearm to gain compliance
and issue commands
did an acceptable job of holding the guy
at gunpoint until the cops showed up
didn't have a gun in his hands when the
cops got there
this dude covered his ass
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