Came across this monitoring what is happening in europa, in this case France. But these guys could just be neigborhood thugs, a flash mob, the fringes of a riot - anywhere. In this case the defender made the smart decision to keep moving as much as possible, only turning and challenging when an armed antagonist was dangerously close. Otherwise he continued making distance. This is a crucial thing to do, both to avoid direct confrontation, and to widen the distance advantage should things deteriorate.
It is a good actual event to expand on hypothetically. Say there were more in his path and they boxed him in. What can then occur is what I refer to as crowding. The antagonists do not do anything to warrant an immediate shooting response, but simply edge closer and closer until they are close to contact distance. None of them even need to be overtly or actually armed. At some point, if you have no exit, what are you going to do, and when?:
It is a good actual event to expand on hypothetically. Say there were more in his path and they boxed him in. What can then occur is what I refer to as crowding. The antagonists do not do anything to warrant an immediate shooting response, but simply edge closer and closer until they are close to contact distance. None of them even need to be overtly or actually armed. At some point, if you have no exit, what are you going to do, and when?: