the old adage says you don't want to get
between a mama bear and her cub welcome
to today's active self-protection lesson
I'm your host John Korea active cell
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today's lesson comes to us out of China
and it shows a guy that inexplicably
tries to grab a child right away from
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self-protection the guy that's in the
lower right here on your screen is our
perp and you can see that he is just
kind of loitering now if you look in the
top of the screen in the center top
right there's some other folks just kind
of hanging around in this neighborhood
in Taipei but he's just kind of chillin
now I'll go read the news story that
I've linked in the description and
you'll see that this guy apparently is a
lifeguard at the local pool and he's on
his dinner break and what you're gonna
see here is this mom roll by and as she
does for no explainable reason he grabs
her daughter and and tries to pull her
away from her mom but mom is just not
having it holds on to her little girl
starts screaming for help as she does
scream for help after a few seconds a
few folks finally kind of show up for
this guy and mom and little girl run off
and get the heck out of there now this
guy's gonna go down back where he put
his backpack in his bag just a little
earlier and grab ahold of them and all
these people now are stand around going
what are we gonna do with this guy we'll
hopefully see this guy finally get on
the phone to get the police on the way
and what we're going to see is our perp
is going to try to go off in the same
direction that mom and little girl went
but they're not gonna let him they're
gonna stop him from doing that and then
follow him and again the news story says
they followed him about a hundred yards
away to a store where police were able
to apprehend him and he is facing
obviously a host of charges and that is
where this one ends boy scary lesson but
I'm awful glad that that mama bear was
willing to fight for her little one if
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today's video I want to think about
protecting a vulnerable person in your
midst I also want to think about the
incredible importance of attitude and
why I say empty handed skills are just
as important for parents as they are for
anyone else so first let's think pre
attack indicators here I don't see a lot
of them quite honestly I mean this guy
is loitering but there are other people
kind of in the area and yes this is a
transitional space however that said I
mean is somebody just kind of standing
around is not necessarily going to set
off all of your alarms now maybe the
fact that he's got his head covered when
nobody else does and you know he's got a
you know it looks like a kerchief on or
something like that maybe but that's not
gonna set a whole lot of things off I do
want to say this though this mom has
done something right from the giddyup
when we talk about protecting a
vulnerable person under your care that
could be a child that could be somebody
with developmental difficulties that
could be your spouse that could be an
elderly relative and that is she puts
herself between her child and any
potential threat now there's not a whole
lot of actual threat here but with a
potential threat she puts herself
between that child and the threat so as
a parent that might mean that on a
normal basis you walk on the outside of
the sidewalk where the traffic is but
here when you see somebody who is an
unknown contact part of managing that
unknown contact is putting yourself in
the most vulnerable place and taking
your vulnerable person and putting them
in the outside space so you can respond
first good job mom now as we keep going
he's still gonna reach around and grab
ahold of that backpack now perhaps here
mom could have you know assured the
child in front of her as she walked by
and kept a little bit more distance and
made it more difficult here but I don't
know this guy would have been
necessarily deterred by that so what do
you got to think here well as a parent
you got to recognize that even with your
children right on you you might have to
defend your child from a kidnapping
attempt and of course this is every
parent's worst nightmare
but denying that it could happen to you
is not going to make it not happen to
you and clearly I don't think this mom
was expecting that in that day but you
got to have an attitude that says I will
protect my family I will defend my
children no matter what and that's
exactly what we see from this mom notice
that as he grabs her little girl for
while mom does not let go of her child
and second of all look at her face mom
is not scared here mom is angry this
look is a look of anger to me a look of
incredulity and mom is saying no not
today and that attitude of self-defence
is absolutely the most important part of
self-defence it is absolutely the
bedrock foundation of being a self
defender that's why we talk about
attitude then skills then plan ASP and
that's why we talk about that because
that attitude that says I will not be
victimized no one has the right to harm
me or those I love is where self defense
comes from now what we're gonna see is
they keep going is it becomes a tug of
war for this little girl which is why I
say empty-handed skills so important for
parents as well as for everyone else
because just having a tug-of-war over
your little one with somebody who's
bigger and stronger than you very very
difficult so rather than that having
some skills to recognize I have one hand
that's completely engaged with my child
but I have a second hand I have two feet
I have knees I have elbows or even
better I have tools on me now I get it
this is China that's very very difficult
for people that said though having
significant empty handed skills is
incredibly important and this is why
parents absolutely have to have them
because you got to defend that
vulnerable person who is under your care
now then mom and a little girl get away
that's awesome they're unharmed life is
good let's think for a minute here about
being a bystander because these
bystanders do step in they do step
between them and I think that's
admirable in China especially there's
some significant laws against being a
bystander and stepping in because of
legal liability that accrues because of
that and in the u.s. some people may
feel that as well so you want to know in
advance what am I willing to step in for
and what am I not willing to step into
and I think that's important for us to
consider here that you have that
considered in advance now you don't
really have any legal duty to step in
however you might feel a moral
obligation to step into a third party
encounter so if you do make sure you
understand how far you're willing to go
and what your local laws are so that you
can do so in a effective way as well as
a legal way and keep yourself out of
trouble and ameliorate those risks so
let's think about some significant stuff
here in terms of staying left to bang if
at all possible about defending a
vulnerable person about having
incredible attitude and self-defense why
I say you ought to build a robust empty
handed skill set it's also think about
being a bystander as we cover our ASP
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