Self-defence wise prevention is the name of the game mainly, he's looking for easy marks not paying attention to what they're doing like you point out and yeah the other black guy knew. It's pretty disturbing how utterly thoughtless people are when it comes to their own personal security. The most I will do out on the street with a phone is have it out for directions.
People everywhere are walking around now with headphones on not watching where they're going. In the video you can mostly see they're off gabbing with a friend ( if they're a woman frankly ) or if they're being brainless and not paying attention to what's around them in their own world. Small wonder that scooter based phone theft is so high in cities because all these dipshits are doing the same thing.
I was doing research on Argentina out of curiosity as you do if you're at all sensible and there was this video where in Buenos Aires the cops were going out of their way to warn the guy that his camera was going to get stolen. I know I'm chatting to people who will be familiar with opsec as part of their day job but fucking hell a lot of people out there are literal retards. I agree it's a potential legal shitshow if you do defend yourself but even so when it comes to stuff like this there are basic principles at play.
Self-defence wise prevention is the name of the game mainly, he's looking for easy marks not paying attention to what they're doing like you point out and yeah the other black guy knew. It's pretty disturbing how utterly thoughtless people are when it comes to their own personal security. The most I will do out on the street with a phone is have it out for directions.
People everywhere are walking around now with headphones on not watching where they're going. In the video you can mostly see they're off gabbing with a friend ( if they're a woman frankly ) or if they're being brainless and not paying attention to what's around them in their own world. Small wonder that scooter based phone theft is so high in cities because all these dipshits are doing the same thing.
I was doing research on Argentina out of curiosity as you do if you're at all sensible and there was this video where in Buenos Aires the cops were going out of their way to warn the guy that his camera was going to get stolen. I know I'm chatting to people who will be familiar with opsec as part of their day job but fucking hell a lot of people out there are literal retards. I agree it's a potential legal shitshow if you do defend yourself but even so when it comes to stuff like this there are basic principles at play.