Yeah, that hollywood/TV thing of sticking a gun right up in someone’s face, see, allows that someone to grab it just like the clerk sort of did to the perp. It could have ended up in a grappling contest, but apparently the perp wasn’t counting on a fight.
Watch how the perp gets his gun out slowly. Alexander reaches out and taps it down — he does not gain control over it (you can see his hand waving in air after the gun goes outside his reach).
I’m expecting an immediate reaction by the robber, to back up and whip his gun back on target.
But oddly, nothing happens. The perp doesn’t react to the play for his gun at all, he just leaves it down and keeps leaning in. WTF? Alexander has all the time in the world to reach for, grasp, and draw his weapon.
And then that stupid move of putting the gun right in his face?
Something’s not right here. Was the robber drunk or stoned? If he’d been hopped up on meth, or even just sober and a bit jumpy, that gun comes back up well before Alexander clears leather… and extra agitated now.
I have no experience or training in matters like these, so I’ll put the grain of salt right here “.” But my first thought after my first viewing of this video was that Alexander was lucky to be alive after that slow draw.
September 6th, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Yeah, that hollywood/TV thing of sticking a gun right up in someone’s face, see, allows that someone to grab it just like the clerk sort of did to the perp. It could have ended up in a grappling contest, but apparently the perp wasn’t counting on a fight.
September 6th, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Watch how the perp gets his gun out slowly. Alexander reaches out and taps it down — he does not gain control over it (you can see his hand waving in air after the gun goes outside his reach).
I’m expecting an immediate reaction by the robber, to back up and whip his gun back on target.
But oddly, nothing happens. The perp doesn’t react to the play for his gun at all, he just leaves it down and keeps leaning in. WTF? Alexander has all the time in the world to reach for, grasp, and draw his weapon.
And then that stupid move of putting the gun right in his face?
Something’s not right here. Was the robber drunk or stoned? If he’d been hopped up on meth, or even just sober and a bit jumpy, that gun comes back up well before Alexander clears leather… and extra agitated now.
I have no experience or training in matters like these, so I’ll put the grain of salt right here “.” But my first thought after my first viewing of this video was that Alexander was lucky to be alive after that slow draw.