by John Riley | Oct 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
The reality of a knife attack is that there is nothing you can say or do at that moment that will “de-escalate” the attacker Can you de-escalate a knife attack? Once again the uninformed, misinformed, misguided and criminals are rioting and looting in...
by John Riley | Oct 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Finger Pointing Escalates Into Trashing Of McDonald’s. High, VERY high, on the list of things NOT to do when interacting with an angry person is – Do not point your finger at them! This recent incident at a McDonald’s in Indianapolis has several...
by John Riley | Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Are you really that offended by a political poster? Don’t be the person who gets so offended over something that you do or say something stupid. How could these 2 have handled this situation differently? This happened in 2016 but we are beginning to see this...
by John Riley | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Missteps and bad decisions by everyone in this recent incident almost created a fatal outcome. To summarize, on July 1, 2020, in Michigan, a pregnant white woman was leaving a restuarant as a 15 year old black juvenile female and her mother were walking in, and the...
by John Riley | Jun 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Common basic body language in confrontational situations, it’s automatic and primal, it didn’t need to be taught to any human being, it just manifests itself when a person is agitated and stressed. Studies have shown that there are some universal body...
by John Riley | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Toilet Paper Incident between Mother and Son has some lessons. A 26-yr old man physically assaults his own mother over toilet paper (Come on, you knew stuff like this was going to happen!) What conflict de-escalation lessons can we learn from this incident? Click...
by John Riley | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Are YOU escalating a situation on principle? Do you believe in the right to openly carry a weapon and to make a point, you go open carry at or near a school, or into a police station? Do you believe in your political party and to make a point, you decide to go wave...
by John Riley | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Another sad example of a chaotic situation with a loud, rude, obnoxious person mishandled by aircrew on an airliner. This video was recently uploaded onto Youtube, and it happened onboard a Brussells Airlines aircraft on March 11th, 2020 apparently during flight. ...
by John Riley | Mar 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
This incident happened in Florida when a teen tried to leave his high school for a dental appointment. He apparently wasn’t even suppose to be at the school that morning but had decided to give a friend a ride to school before going to his appointment....
by John Riley | Mar 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
I created a training program in 2017 for armed church security personnel, and call it Decision Making Drills. I had observed that a vast majority of armed church security personnel go to the range a lot, and they shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot some more…...
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