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A Kentucky woman visiting her boyfriend in El Paso TX shot and killed her Uber driver in the apparent mistaken belief that the drive was kidnapping her to Mexico. By all accounts the driver was simply a hard-working family driving along a perfectly reasonable route, and not in proximity to any border crossing.  The woman […]

During the early morning hours of Friday, June 23, three San Antonio Police Department officers responded to the apartment of 46-year-old Melissa Perez, who appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis. Perez fled into her apartment, armed herself with a hammer, and as the three officers stood just outside her front door they shot

The Maryland Supreme Court recently took a hard look at tool mark evidence–specifically, the matching of bullets to specific firearms–and in a 6-3 decision cast a large doubt on the integrity of such evidence. Join me LIVE at 3 PM ET today as we read and evaluate the decision of Abruquah v. State, 2023 Md.

The terrible news of the Titanic submarine appearing to be lost at see with passengers aboard raises an interesting legal question–would it be lawful for some of the passengers to kill others so that their limited oxygen supply would last long, increasing the prospects for the killers to survive to rescue? An actual real-world case

Today’s show covers four use-of-force videos with interesting lessons to document. 1. Use of OC Spray against a knife robbery. 2. Angry homeowner with pistol in hand yells at workers in street. The next two videos are of defensive gun uses, and both illustrate why it might well be tactically imperative and legally justifiable to

Today’s LIVE show will cover THREE use-of-force events caught on video! 1. Man stones homes, is stopped using golf cart as weapon! Lawful? Deadly force? (Open-access!) 2. 14yo shoots pursuing cop THIS FAST! Useful to document how quickly even a “child” can shoot you? Yep! (Members-Only!) 3. Motorcycle thieves gunned down! Defense of property? (Members-Only)

Yesterday, a New York City grand jury indicted Daniel Penny, who had been charged with second-degree (reckless) manslaughter in the choke-hold death of Jordan Neely on a NYC subway on May 1. Penny has claimed that he put Jordan in a restraining choke-hold position because Jordan had been making violent threats to the passengers on

Today’s Law of Self Defense show breaks down a use-of-force event caught on video, in which a much larger aggressor goes hands on with a much smaller defender, and the defender responds to the aggressor’s hands by shooting him dead. Lawful self-defense, or excessive defensive force murder? Become a Law of Self Defense Member for

MEMBERS-ONLY SHOW! Today we’ll be breaking down SIX use-of-force videos. 1. Non-compliant driver suddenly grabs gun and kills one officer and badly wounds another. 2. Non-compliant driver suddenly grabs gun, fires on two offices, wounds one but is killed by the other. 3. Non-compliant suspect goes for pistol while held at gunpoint by police, ends

Today’s show will address the question of whether displaying a gun towards another person for the purpose of changing their behavior is an act of deadly force–meaning, that you must first have been facing a deadly force threat, or your display of the gun would constitute felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. This question