in some armed robberies you get a chance
for a counter ambush in some you don't
hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self-protection I'm your
host as always John Korea two armed
robberies for us today both out of Sao
Paulo Del Norte Houston to win the fight
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in this first one I've sped it up for
the sake of time you can see this guy
kind of riding around at this business
about 6 30 or so p.m and it's just
before Christmas and what's gonna happen
is he knows that the owner is inside
he's going to open that back door where
he's working point a gun at him and tell
him to get on the ground the owner's
gonna do that and then he is going to
actually zip tie him and his hands
behind his back while he is on the
ground then he tells the owner that he
has heard that the owner has some cash
in the uh you know in the office and he
wants it and the owner then tells him
that his employees Christmas bonuses are
in individual envelopes so then that guy
is going to find those envelopes because
the owner tells him where they are grab
them grab some other stuff take the
owner's wallet and cell phone and he
runs off they have not caught him on
their second one here this is it is at
an adult toy store and Kenny from South
Park here has gone terribly bad you see
him he's got his hood pulled all the way
around tells an employee he wants to say
hi and then he's going to show that
employee the fact that he has a firearm
in his right uh jacket you know he's got
a trench coat on there and that the
right pocket there he's going to show
him that he has a firearm and then tell
the guy he wants the money out of the
till the employee's like I don't care
man I have anything that you want you
can see he's pretty nonchalant about
things he's going to walk him to the
front and then open up the register for
him now watch this here you've been
watching lessons for a while you know
kind of what's coming is that he then
takes both hands and starts taking money
out of the till while the employee
stands over to the side and watches him
empty the till then he is then going to
start kind of once he's got all the
funds that he wants out of there looked
at me like he even grabbed the quarters
out of the change part he's going to go
down to the register the second register
and end up doing the same thing and then
ran off as well and police have not
found him and I don't think have a good
description of him either all right what
do you think I gotta say getting tied up
and zip tied on the ground is a big no
from me dog but I'd love to know what
your thoughts are is that a hard and
fast for you or would you take that risk
couple things at the beginning of this
first one number one lock your doors so
this is clearly not a retail environment
not a place where you're going to invite
people in so you're working there by
yourself I would just strongly suggest
the doors need to be locked number two
this certainly feels like an inside job
to me he's heard that there's money in
the place well where did he hear that
from he almost certainly heard it from
one of the employees or one of the
managers something like that so so
you've got to be real careful who it is
that you let know that you have money
around and and listen I wouldn't
recommend keeping large amounts of cash
or valuables around if you don't have to
if it's not a part of your business that
you absolutely have to second thing here
okay guy puts a gun at you man all right
fine what am I going to do but if this
if our owner is armed there's actually
an opportunity right here because
because you got that doorway there and
the guy says hey get on the ground
whatever okay man I'll go over here and
do that and when you walk through that
door specifically if you're carrying up
front you've got an opportunity to get
your gun out turn around and get it on
with this guy and launch a counter
Ambush because that that what it does is
camouflages your draw I've seen many
instances on the Channel people stepping
through doorway ways and to the side
getting a gun out and getting a
successful counter Ambush probably was
his only opportunity here so one of the
things we say is is that listen you got
to wait your turn but then you've got to
take your turn because you don't know if
you're going to get another one in this
particular case he's not going to get
another one because he gets put on the
ground and put in zip ties now listen
you got to decide for you what it is
that your non-negotiables are the ghost
signals that you say no matter what I'm
gonna defend myself even if it looks
like I'm gonna lose and and for me and
for mine being tied up on the ground is
one of them nothing good happens after
that thankfully in this case nothing
terrible happened but man I have seen so
many times people get executed they get
taken to a second location they get
abused in terrible ways I'm just
personally not willing to be put in zip
ties or handcuffs and put on the ground
and and that is just an absolute
no-brainer for me you decide that for
you and for yours and and know where
your ghost signals are I would never be
taken to a second location either those
are my real kind of things that I'm
gonna say no we're gonna fight it out
right here and see what happens now okay
the guy runs off with money that money
can be replaced via you know business
insurance those kinds of things okay
fine now in the second one as it comes
on here you see the guy and again this
is in 2022 and the dude's got you know
the thing on his face where he can't see
his face and anything like that huge red
flag in in our modern times this guy
doesn't want to show who he is in the
days of oh I'm wearing a face covering
for covet are pretty much over if you're
wearing a hoodie tight with a face
covering absolutely over that is
absolutely an indicator that you have
nefarious intent now the employee here
hey man he's like look I'm going to show
you a gun and I want your stuff now I
get it a lot of people are like well
it's just the company's money give it up
it's not the money that he is
threatening here it is the life of the
employee he is threatening the
employee's life and that employee has
every right to defend his life against
the threat of death or great bodily harm
that this robber represents but again he
is gonna have to wait his turn if he
tries to draw a gun here or something
like that ah man he is going to have a
very bad day of it however as he walks
away from the guy again if he's carrying
up front he might have the opportunity
to get that gun drawn surreptitiously
and then turn it on our robber as he's
kind of not paying attention but he gets
an even better opportunity here because
our dude gets the register open and then
watch what goes down in a second but
before that even you notice that that if
our uh clerk was wanting to try a disarm
instead I don't have a gun but I'm I
want to fight I don't want you know I
feel like this guy really will hurt me
then he had the distance covered here so
launching a counter Ambush where you
grab at that gun or the hand with the
gun in the pocket and go at it you got
to start at the right distance and he's
at the right distance right here so if
you're gonna launch a disarming attack I
think it would be difficult in this case
but those five D's plus one distance
first and then deflect dominate distract
disarm and disable that would have been
the time to do it if he has a firearm on
him this is the perfect time here you
notice that our perp here has now both
hands out and he's got him in the
register and so now all our clear cast
to do I don't really care in this
particular case if he's got a six second
draw to first shot no joke this guy is
so kind of tunnel visioned on the money
that he's getting there he's got both
hands in there so he's not got a hand on
the gun
nothing that this guy's going to do to
prevent you from ending that threat now
is he still a deadly threat absolutely
still using that gun to to intimidate
you into giving him what he wants and so
it's a hundred percent a current deadly
threat imminent deadly threat in your
vicinity so he had plenty of opportunity
here to counter Ambush I would say if
you're not going to counter Ambush I
wouldn't stick around there as soon as
you open the register for me starts in
on it get the heck out of there run out
the front door get gone from there as
fast as you can so in both of these
cases we had negative outcomes but in
both of these cases we had opportunities
if we had attitude skills and plan to
cover our aspect