S13E22: JUSTIFIED SAVES – Whose Fight Is It?

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About This Episode:

We review a monthly set of justified save cases to discuss decision-making in defensive gun use incidents, including questions about who was the initial aggressor and when a threat had ended. The episode covers cases in Michigan, Oklahoma, Utah, Tulsa, Ohio, Philadelphia, and Florida, with incidents involving robbery, assault, domestic violence, forced entry, evidence handling, and police investigations.

We also give an update on the South Carolina case involving Chike Rick Chow, focusing on the later civil lawsuit after the earlier criminal process. Throughout, we emphasize the differences between criminal and civil standards and the risks of continuing a pursuit after an initial threat has ended.

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About Riley Bowman

Riley Bowman is the Director of Training at ConcealedCarry.com and the Host of the Concealed Carry Podcast. He started teaching during his 8-year experience with a state-level law enforcement agency in Colorado. Riley has trained extensively under instructors such as: Rob Leatham, Mike Seeklander, Tom Givens, Tim Herron, Scott Jedlinski, Matt Little, Kyle Lamb, Dave Spaulding, Jeff Gonzales, Bill Blowers, Chuck Pressburg, and others, amassing many hundreds of hours of formal shooting and tactics training. He is an NRA Pistol Instructor, a Colorado P.O.S.T. Handgun and Patrol Rifle Instructor, a Rangemaster Certified Pistol Instructor, a graduate of Trident Concepts Concealed Carry Instructor course, and a Modern Samurai Project Endorsed Instructor. He also competes in USPSA as a Grand Master (Limited Optics), Steel Challenge (Master), and 3-gun competitions, is a multiple-division USPSA Colorado State Champion, and also has multiple top-25 finishes at USPSA and IPSC National Championships in multiple divisions.

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