as self-defenders we get to practice
protection but not punishment
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host
john korea today's video comes to us
from santiago california
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watch our robber run up to the car
sitting in the parking lot here and
stick a gun
in their face now you see the passenger
fighting with the guy and then the back
seat passenger
jump out while he's robbing them and
she's gonna run inside and start warning
everybody that there's an armed robbery
going on in the parking lot which is
going to make everybody freak out
now watch what happens here our our
driver is eventually going to put the
car in reverse
and hit that guy with the door and kind
of shove him off where he's going
and when our bad guy tries to get in the
getaway car the getaway car gets too far
from him and i'm not kidding you here
our victim is going to run him over and
when he hits him with his car
the bad guy's gun goes off and shoots
himself in the head he literally
shot himself in the head last i can see
he was in critical condition at the
hospital and i don't know what charges
he's facing
or if he made it or anything like that
the news stories don't identify the bad
guy
that i could find so if you find
something put it in a comment i'll add
it to the description the police didn't
show up a number of minutes later but it
was all over but the
paperwork at that point and that's where
it ends okay now we're going to have a
significant discussion here about the
legal and moral
aspects of self-defense but before you
watch it leave me a comment in the
description
and ask if it is legally justified to do
what these people did what do you think
and then let's talk about it so here's
an interesting one for us to think about
and that is
backing into parking spaces number one
this is a transitional space right
allows a bad guy to attack with an
element of surprise get away quickly
and find they're valuable so that's our
definition of a transitional space
secondly you do get an opportunity to
see better if you've backed your car in
now i get it that can be a pain in the
butt
on the other hand you got to either back
in or back out so backing in might be a
better choice because you could
again be able to get away more quickly
here especially if you jump in the car
start the car put the car in gear and
then do whatever else it is that you
need to do
so i think that transitional space in
backing in is one that we can really
think about
secondly why in the world would you
leave a door open like this this is a
very big mistake when you get in the car
get in close the doors lock the doors
because that provides a barrier to a
dude sticking a gun in your face
next you think about the fact that they
are fighting inside a vehicle i find
this to be very rare it's not often that
we see this but when we do
these are the worst of the worst fights
the most difficult ones
to win and i want you to be prepared for
that once all your other skills are in
order something like a bcqb
class or something like that something
like you know fighting in vehicles or
something like that now
then i love the fact that the back
passenger decides to get out of the
danger zone that makes a lot of sense to
me
that she boogies the heck out of there
because and the only way of course that
i would say that that would be a
bad decision is to say if you had a
vulnerable
family member who was in the car then
you got to stay and protect that
vulnerable family member do what you
have to do in the moment but otherwise
get the heck out of the danger zone run
away as fast as you can
make sure that you know you are in a
safe place and get to safety
that said nobody's coming to save you
friends there's nobody here in the
restaurant that's going to do any better
than you are
so getting out of the danger zone is
great but having the tools to protect
yourself
even better with the attitude and the
skills in the plan now then our
defender gets the car in reverse and
runs that guy the heck out of there and
i think
that's a very good thing let's look at
it as we stop and you see that
that our our bad guy gets caught up in
the door and the door you know kind of
flings him off into the wild blue yonder
well
just a lesson for us as defenders this
is one of the reasons that i would
prefer that if you're not getting in or
out of the car actively
to shut that car door because you get
caught up in that in a bad guy's sense
or whatever
it can hurt you very very badly end up
getting run over and those kinds of
things
in this case our defender used it and
used it well but it's a good reminder
for us
to leave the car running and in gear if
we at all can because that gives us the
best opportunity to get away
now let's talk about the legal and moral
ramifications here our bad guy does not
get in the vehicle
and so our victim is going to run him
down now then i i want to ask you a
question
what is the legal and moral
justification here in this particular
instance i get that he's mad i get
you son of a gun you have you know
offended me and i'm angry and i want to
punish you but this right here he
very well this driver could have faced
charges i'm actually surprised that the
district attorney did not watch this and
say
you weren't under risk you escalated or
renewed a conflict and started a new
conflict
and ran this guy over who wasn't a
deadly threat to you in the moment and
therefore i'm gonna charge you now
i think some district attorneys won't
and i think that that's what happened
here and and okay fine
and you know i mean sometimes you say
well some people need running over with
a car and he's a
you know a scumbag and all that stuff
and i agree with that but i don't want
you to get hemmed up by the law doing
this kind of stuff okay
leave that to the cops don't don't do
this kind of stuff because you could
very easily have ended up facing charges
here thankfully he didn't thankfully
district attorney looks like he left him
alone okay fine
and i think there's some poetic justice
of that guy getting to to you know ride
on the grill of the car
and then you know ended up shooting
himself in the head and he earned
everything he got he paid the band so he
gets to dance the dance
but i don't want you to be in that kind
of a situation
finally they go in and they try to get
some help let's think i think it's a
better idea not to poke your head out
but rather to you know get yourself into
a safe place where you're behind cover
and not conceal it
but finally i want you to recognize no
one's coming to save you friends there's
literally nobody coming to save you the
police aren't going to get there for
several minutes they can't save you
they have other responsibilities on
their agenda and can't be everywhere at
once
nobody from inside the store is going to
come and save you so this is why you
have the attitude the skills and the
plan to get out of the danger zone and
protect your asp