{"id":8248,"date":"2024-02-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:34:06","slug":"in-defense-of-the-brief-post-incident-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/in-defense-of-the-brief-post-incident-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"IN DEFENSE OF THE BRIEF POST-INCIDENT STATEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently did a fifteen-minute video on the Wilson Combat YouTube channel explaining why I \u2013 and a number of very experienced criminal defense lawyers \u2013 go against the common advice of \u201cNever talk to the police\u201d and recommend a brief statement to law enforcement in the immediate aftermath of a defensive drawn gun or shooting incident. You can find it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Massad Ayoob Explains Making A Brief Statement After A Self-Defense Shooting. Critical Mas Ep77\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LiHIvBqGvGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LiHIvBqGvGo?si=rusHIuYKwW3uh7lH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a follow-up to an earlier video I did there about the \u201cfive point checklist\u201d of things that need to be established at the scene as soon as possible, in hopes of avoiding a legal nightmare. That one can be found here:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Don&#039;t Talk to the Police? Massad Ayoob&#039;s 5 Points after a Self-Defense Shooting. Critical Mas Ep14\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zIJ4wLP_0UM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zIJ4wLP_0UM?si=DMPubRfyWn3BKVzi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s already had a couple of million views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s sad that people want simple answers to complicated questions. That never seems to work out well. It\u2019s becoming a TL\/DR world: \u201ctoo long, didn\u2019t read.\u201d It results in people parroting bumper sticker advice that simply doesn\u2019t work well in complicated, high stakes situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a fifteen-minute video on the Wilson Combat YouTube channel explaining why I \u2013 and a number of very experienced criminal defense lawyers \u2013 go against the common advice of \u201cNever talk to the police\u201d and recommend a brief statement to law enforcement in the immediate aftermath of a defensive drawn gun or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}