in an armed robbery if you keep your
wits about you and you wait your turn
you can get over on the bad guy up more
often than not welcome to today's act of
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from Paducah Kentucky in the United
States they look professional protected
cases are waterproof shockproof and
dustproof they're the cases I trust to
protect my valuables when traveling the
armed robbery is already in progress
when we get started you could say our
armed robber here he's got his Alabama
beanie on I guess we're all tight or
something and he's pointing a gun at the
clerk who is giving him a little bit of
attitude and like hey go around front
and get out of my space and I will get
you what you want or something I can't
tell exactly what she said
that's not reported in any of the news
stories but she is going to convince him
to take his gun and go around to the
customer side of the counter while she
gets the money for him out of the till
now she's still talking to him here and
you could see from her body language
that she is none too excited about that
but he's the guy with the gun and so she
is going to actually you know get the
key out and get into the cash register
here gets a target glance around he's
seen if anybody's around me and all
these robbers oftentimes are like cats
on a Hot Tin Roof
now he's gonna try to call in the
counter to get the money and she's not
excited about that tells him to get over
like she said and when he climbs back
she actually pushes him back over that
part really surprises me that either she
read his attitude that he wasn't going
to actually use that gun on her or
whatever because she's being pretty
aggressive towards him in an act of
compliance so she's gonna get the money
out of the till there and just starts
throwing it on the counter until you
could see that she kind of disdains and
she's frustrated so she's throwing money
and throwing the bag and all that stuff
will to get the money he puts the gun
down on the counter now she's looking at
that gun going away what am I gonna do
what am I gonna do here and she'll
finally she's going to step in here and
ask he kind of goes down to get the
other stuff she decides now's her turn
goes and gets his gun and actually I
think they're presses the trigger on him
as he runs out the door but the gun does
not fire because the safety is on he
comes back now I was like hey man give
me my gun or whatever and she's waving
it around in him going hey what's going
on now then he's gonna try to get over
the counter she's gonna actually get the
gun to function get the safety off and
take a shot at him that finally
drives him off the lady called police
they're still looking for this guy so if
you have any information make sure you
call the cops on that but that is where
this one ends come on admit it when you
saw that gun sitting there and the guy
go behind the counter you were like go
get it get it get the gun get the gun
that's exactly what I did the first time
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defender so the first thing that I do
have to say is I admire that she's got
spunk and attitude is the foundation of
all self-defense but when I say attitude
I don't mean copping an attitude on
someone either comply fully or resist
fully if you're gonna you know or order
somebody what to do and start pushing
them around or start yakking Adam that's
generally not encouraged and the reason
for that is is that if she had a bad guy
who did not like that challenge that
could have gone very very badly
thankfully this guy is a coward like a
lot of robbers are so it's not the end
of the world but again notice here that
she is going to physically push him here
and in that act we have begun the
physical conflict it worked out okay
here and sometimes you got to do that
serious calculus and go okay does this
guy really mean it is he after this or
am I gonna be able to protect myself
here with that little bit and maybe
because of the verbal interactions
before that he was listening to or
whatever she felt like she could do this
and keep the counter between them okay
fine but I would say this is a low
percentage play if you're gonna start
the physical conflict it's gonna have to
go all the way especially with somebody
with a gun in their hand it worked out
here okay I don't think that's wise
though far better in that instance if
he's coming over the counter to just
fight him for the gun or just comply
those are your probably your better
options in that case and she does get
the money out here now I know that we're
gonna look at this and a lot of people
are gonna say well John this is a lucky
thing I actually see this all the time
once the money starts coming out I see
bad guys put guns down on counters
pretty commonly and so when that happens
you got to recognize hey wait a minute
if I'm paying attention if I am
complying with purpose then I could know
when it's my turn to go but this is not
her turn to go notice if she went really
fast right now from this much distance
that guy would definitely have seen the
motion and they would have definitely
had a hand fight over the gun so one of
the big things one of the keys to
surviving in armed robbery we talk about
this all the time on the channel is
waiting your turn and
knowing when your turn comes your turn
comes when you can get to that gun at a
faster time and in a faster way than he
can this is where the counter can work
against you because what has to happen
here is you notice she is too far from
the counter when he ducks down here so
right now and he ducks down and she has
backed up several steps which isn't
necessarily a wrong thing however it has
put her in a spot where she cannot get
in and get her hands on that gun now if
she had wanted to in that moment she
could have taken one quick step and
grabbed that gun and probably been able
to that might have been a go sign if he
go if he ducks down or if he turns his
back to me I'm gonna go and get it
however she was too far away in that
moment so you got to use the space that
you have and creep in at that time and
knowing how to control the space is an
important part of your active
self-protection so you notice that she's
gonna do exactly that here creep herself
in so that she's ready and this right
here was her real go signal so you see
she closed in and if she had really
thought ahead to herself I'm gonna go
right now then she wouldn't have
hesitated instead she waits about
another full second and because she does
wait another full second the guy's
popping back up and he almost gets a
hand on the gun now she did go fast
enough she did take her turn so I'm
gonna give her mad props for that but if
she had thought in advance this is my
ghost signal if he turns away from me or
if he ducks underneath the counter see
he can't see me I'm gonna go then she
would have had much more margin for
success so part of purposeful compliance
part of making a plan and staying paying
attention in the middle of an armed
robbery so that you know what your ghost
signal is and you've pre-programmed that
ghost signal so that you don't hesitate
because that hesitation could have cost
her the gun now she's got the gun in her
hand let's talk about space from the
opposite side now now she has a firearm
in her hand bad guy does not have a
firearm and so now she has that
countertop space between her and you
want to maximize distance so instead of
just pointing the gun at him and putting
the gun back in the space where it's not
my gun it's our gun the best bet here
back up get some more space and use that
firearm effectively which has a
functionally infinite distance in a
defensive encounter instead what we see
her do here is point the gun right at
him and stay close over the countertop
which again if he had decided to grab
ahold of that gun could have led to a
significant hand fight so instead I want
you to understand the importance of
spacing particularly when it
- disarming a bad guy and using a
handgun yourself and one of the ways you
can do that is by getting to your
martial arts classes particularly if
you're at a school that uses weaponized
environments and those like that now I
do want to notice here that she is what
looks to me like pressing the trigger
now I get it she's really you know
scared and this guy's just pointed a gun
at her but you do have to recognize that
she has taken his gun away and so he is
unarmed and is actively fleeing now I
don't know if a DA would have given her
too much of a hard time if she had
actually pressed the trigger given
everything else that's going on here
however the jury and the DA will expect
us to act reasonably and therefore you
got to recognize you want to stop when
it's time to stop because you got to say
okay wait a minute
is he still an imminent deadly threat or
has the deadly threat passed because she
has the gun now then I think she's
pointing him cuz she's like oh hey this
guns not working right her it's not
loaded and so he's like hey give me back
my gun she's like no I'm not gonna give
you back the gun which is smart and now
she gets the gun working again and fires
off around now let's talk about this one
again I actually think this is probably
much more reasonable than pressing the
trigger app the guy when he is fleeing
because he has come back he has already
shown deadly intent she could definitely
you know make an argument that wait a
minute I'm not a trained fighter I don't
know how to fight the guy he's gonna
come and take that gun away from me and
kill me with it and therefore I was in
imminent fear of grievous bodily harm or
death so that particular one I'm
actually okay with given all that's
going on here though of course
articulation is going to be incredibly
important thankfully when they she gets
the gun actually running dude decides
that he's got better things to do and
then he left the stove on and he is out
of the picture which is great
now of course get on the phone with 911
if you can in that moment strongly
suggest just you know locking the doors
if it possible but one thing that she
did very well here is she did not chase
a deadly threat so let's learn some
significant lessons about cloaking our
attitude and making sure that we are not
you know obviously putting off signs
that we're going to be willing to resist
let's make sure that we wait our turn
but when we get our turn take our turn
with definitiveness
and understand what your plan is by
paying attention and knowing what your
ghost signals are when you have that gun
make sure you're using space effectively
make sure you're giving space
effectively and then use deadly force
judiciously
to cover your ass
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