Defending Against Mob Violence - Critical Mas(s) Ep. 04 with Massad Ayoob

Hey gang, masanta yube, here for the Wilson combat channel. Be sure to subscribe to Wilson's Battle Channel and remember to hit that little subscribe bell to get notified about upcoming features. I was asked to talk to you today about mob

violence

. that we have been experiencing lately and some of the changes in the rules of engagement, particularly for armed law-abiding citizens, to begin with, to frame the discussion, we have to ask what a mafia is. There is a Webster's English Language Dictionary. definition and there is a definition of negro law from the negro law dictionary and as you will see in a moment, things have changed historically, the common law held that a mob was a group of people brought together for an evil purpose that It was shared by each member of the mafia. therefore, the fear they engendered among the victims for whom they were equally responsible and if the victims reacted in self-defense, each and every member of that mob was essentially a justifiable target if they were attacking an innocent party if we back up over time and that has been seen in some of the classic famous cases that you are familiar with, if you saw any of the Wyatt Art or Tombstone movies, I remember Wyatt Earp standing with a shotgun in front of the jail to prevent the mob of lynchers dragged into a local. character named johnny behind the two and lynch them which actually happened in the year 1881 in tombstone arizona no one was shot the mafia realized that europe and his brother virgil herb who was there and marshall ben sippy and sheriff johnny Being were talking seriously and they would open fire if they tried to take that prisoner and hang him legendary texas ranger frank hamer more than once stayed away from a lynch mob sometimes just literally a riot a ranger never had to fire his gun and the reason was the people of the mob who in practically every In the event that a white gang attempted to lynch a black man realized that Hamer was serious, if they attempted to carry out their nefarious objective, he would shoot them and it would be justified.

We saw a classic case of an armed citizen who did it in the 1920s, probably the classic case of armed citizen against the mafia of the 20th century. The citizen's name was Australian and Sweet. He was an African American doctor. It was an all white and very very segregated neighborhood in Detroit Michigan a white mob had gathered outside his house while he was there with about 10 of his relatives and family the mob became violent and started throwing things at the house shouting, Shots were fired from inside the house, one member of the mob was killed and another seriously wounded everyone inside the sweet house. was arrested and charged that the naacp had held the legendary clarence darrow while his lawyer and daryl gave a compelling explanation of why in the history of american law and going back to english common law citizens had the right to shoot when a mob with intent shared attempts to harm them illegally Aussie and Sweet were acquitted and basically that became the paradigm of the 20th century.

The classic text used by lawyers on homicide law is called Warren Homicide and if you research that book it will tell you the same thing because the mob shares the same criminal intent, each member of the mob shares the guilt and responsibility of being shot. the expected victims. Now let's fast forward to the 21st century. What we are facing right now has changed mafias and the different legal definition of a mafia used to be that entity of many people with shared intentions, essentially a mass, if you will, where any cell of which was vulnerable to return fire of an innocent victim, today the rioters are seen as protesters and the reason is the criminal elements of the mafia.

They have basically infiltrated what society sees, and generally sees correctly, as decent people who are motivated to protest against what they perceive as injustice. Basically, rioters are using protesters as human shields and camouflage. A very wise police officer I know in a major city that has had to deal with this kind of thing, who writes under the pseudonym Spencer Blue made the claim that protesters are the ocean in which sharks and troublemakers swim. and that profoundly changes the rules of engagement if a group of a large crowd of people crowd around your car, you can't automatically assume that they all share the violent intent and the reason is that if you followed these incidents and saw many of them in YouTube, what we often see is protesters grabbing rioters and trying to restrain them and yell things like that at them that's not who we are that's why we're not here that's not what we do now all of us as we watch people get hurt we've seen victims Innocents we have seen the deaths of innocents occur in these things in current times we all remember the atrocity of Reginald Denney at the beginning of the so-called Rodney King riots in 1992 in Los Angeles, savagely beaten and crippled for life by a group of rioters.

Denny survived although he is physically disabled for the rest of his life severe brain damage his skull literally crushed with a concrete block but we have to remember what Reginald Denney himself said about that he said people remember that black people trampled me and beat me I remember that the black people stopped that and saved me and took those people away from me when you are surrounded by a group of any color, they are a group of people who are unknown to you and some of them are hostile, we can no longer take for granted that all the Members of that mafia are a legitimate target for defensive lethal force.

Well, how do we discriminate between the protester and the rioter? Basically, it comes down to his actions, so you will be judged by what the courts call the totality of the circumstances if the person is waving signs. you're shouting raise your fists to show solidarity with us or sing our song to show solidarity with us uh they may be offensive but they're not really troublemakers yet when they attack you you start throwing a molotov cocktail at your house you start breaking the side window of your car you are now physically under attack and that has gone beyond rioter we are not shooting at them because they rioted we are not shooting at them because they were looting we are shooting at them because they are trying to kill or one one of us in that vehicle in that situation we go right back to self-defense, but remember that self-defense is individual by individual, it is not a mafia thing and not every member of that crowd will be a target of opportunity now, what does that mean?

It means, among other things, that we have to be very selective with our targets, we have to realize that the background in a crowded area will include innocent people, now one thing in particular in terms of equipment that really worries me is that the people say, well, if I have, you know, people with deep layers that are attacking me, I should have a gi ball, I should have a nato ball 308, 762, I should have my hard, penetrating and deep release, hunting loads so that happens. this one in that one and maybe get a third and I get two or three for one person that's not the situation okay, that's a scene from the walking dead and we have to remember that the walking dead is not a documentary, it's a fantasy and en It's certainly not a training film either, what you're going to need here is very selective footage of the clearly identified threat.

In my case, for ammunition selection, I would do the opposite of what I just described. Normally when I am carrying a nine millimeter it will take 124 plus p or 127 grams plus p plus jacketed hollow point if I anticipate a situation like the one we are talking about now I load the gun with 115 grains plus b plus less penetration in most loads it will go around 10 inches less penetration than the 12 to 14 inches the FBI recommends, but with a wider wound channel, you are much more likely to stay within the specific deadly threat target chosen, as insensitive as it may seem to say, in a situation. street, the only safe backup is the body of the offender keep in mind that the person behind him could be a person who is trying to restrain him and who at one point could be trying to rescue him from him, especially because if this seems like a dead end situation, you are right.

Above all, avoid is the basic plan if you don't already have a waze app w-a-z-e get one, the waze app will inform you about any traffic jams, traffic obstructions that are on the path you have chosen and time to avoid them. Most of the time, that traffic jam will be a car accident, a traffic light that is not working properly, but if it is this type of situation, you will know in time to avoid it. Always keep plenty of space in front of you and look at least 100 yards ahead of where you are. Your vehicle is going so you can see how a situation like this develops before you get involved in it, if you find yourself involved in it first you wouldn't be waving guns to begin with, in many of these situations the crowds simply drive past the vehicles shouting slogans.

Even if they were angry, if they started hitting my car, my car is insured, okay, my bill to the auto repair company and the body shop will be much less than my lawyer's retainer after I had to shoot someone if starts coming in through the windows, that's a different deal. Check your own state's laws up to date and see whether or not your vehicle is considered an extension of the home as it is, for example, in Florida and other states' castle doctrine. now nail anyone who attempts to violently enter the vehicle rather than externally damage it in the state of florida, which would be presumed to be deadly force intent, but will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

You also want to know what lawyers call the mood of the courts in any given community where you may be, and the mood of the courts is very often the mood of the prosecutor's office. I can't help but notice that the cities with the most urban

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are happening now, our cities where the district attorney or whoever is chief prosecutor, is there a state attorney here, Commonwealth's attorney, there, district attorney, wherever your mood oh we'll let the rioters go because they're just protesters but oh my god you pulled a gun on someone who turned out not to have a gun as deadly as yours we charge you with murder we charge you with manslaughter involuntary and you're in for a minimum legal nightmare of a hundred thousand dollars, eh, not to mention what the attitude of the general public will be and how deeply that will affect you. and your family again, the key is to avoid it, uh, whether it's the late William April who we recently lost, the criminal psychology expert since Sun Tzu, a battle avoided like a battle, I can't give you good answers, yes I can.

I'm not telling you how to safely do something inherently dangerous, all we can do is tell you to walk if you have to walk on ice, to walk on ice thick enough to support your weight, and to intentionally go toward something you know could emerge. Getting into one of these puts you in a very delicate situation, be careful, good luck, stay safe and don't forget to subscribe to Wilson's combat channel.