KBCraig wrote:I hope Mr. Greenshirt in the black Tahoe had a nice day. It's obvious he was shuffling off to something more important than subduing an armed robber.
My kinda guy. Did you notice he even failed to stop before the pulled out of the parking lot? Whadda man.
It's not exactly clear to me how the store manager kept the perp subdued until they got him quasi-tied-up. He sure didn't
look like Royce Gracie, but the presumably younger robber, after he was dropped, never moved more than about 12 inches farther away from the door.
LEO response: first cruiser arrived in about five minutes from the time we saw the woman on the phone in the back office, and three other cruisers arrived within another 60 seconds or so. Don't know where this took place, but I'm impressed.
And thanks, ELB, for posting. What I took away was a big ol' reinforcement of Grossman's "sheeple" concept. Wow. I don't think anybody even noticed the guy wearing the big, black, full-head mask and carrying a butcher knife until he crossed behing the counter and confronted the two workers there...and even then, it looked like it took them a couple of seconds to realize he was a threat. And all the people at the gas pumps, except the one guy in the silver car who backed and came over near the end, were oblivious.
And we worrying about accidental printing.
Not gonna fault the manager or Mr. Blue Shirt for anything they might have done better, tactically speaking, because they displayed the most important thing: the right awareness and attitude. Notice Mr. Blue Shirt doesn't look like he had just stepped out of the gym, but after the moment it took for him to realize what was happening, look at his next, immediate reaction: he took a couple of steps toward the struggle, and you could tell his intent was to help, whether he had even had time to really think about it or not.
) -- the video is 8+ minutes long, so takes along time to download. I found it worth it though.
