Trooper Down! Armed Citizen Saves AZ State Trooper! Thomas Yoxall

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with Thomas Yoxall as he tells us about how he was in the perfect position to assist an Arizona State Trooper who was being violently assaulted by a repeat offender. Thomas discusses his training, experience and spiritual fitness and how that provided him with the attitude, skills and plan to protect a protector. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0	The suspect had already fractured his skull with his empty gun.
0:04.3	And at this point, he's slamming Trooper Anderson's head into the asphalt.
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0:33.1	the Active Self-Protection Podcast sent you. Hello, and welcome back to the Active Self-P Cell Protection Podcast. I am your host, Mike Williver, your favorite, former Fed. With me today, my friend Thomas Yawksal, Thomas, how are you? Doing well. Thank you for having me on the show, Mike. It's great to have you. For those of you who don't know, Thomas was in a, I wouldn't call it a defensive encounter,
0:54.9	but a protective encounter almost.
0:56.9	January 12th, 2017, he was traveling on I-10 near Tonopi, Arizona, and observed a DPS trooper,
1:04.8	Arizona State Trooper in a bad situation and had to get out and defend him using a firearm.
1:09.7	And we're going to talk about that,
1:11.4	but we're way more interested, as you know, in what happened before that and what happened after that. Thomas, tell me, where did you grow up? Did you grow up in Arizona? Yeah, so I'm a true Arizona native. I was born in Phoenix and raised in Glendale. Grew up my entire life in Glendale. bought my first house in Glendell, then the next one in Peoria, and now I'm in El Mirage,
1:31.6	Arizona. So I just kept kind of going in a northwest trajectory.
1:35.8	So I love it here. It's my home state.
1:38.2	So you, uh, growing up, uh, talk to me about your family, your mom and dad, your situation
1:43.4	there. What was that like? Um, well, talk to me about your family, your mom and dad, your situation there. What was that like?
1:46.3	Well, not to be too exposed, but my childhood wasn't the best.
1:54.1	My earliest memory is up to 15, 16 years old.
1:59.1	I was brutalized, I mean, traumatized by my mother.
2:04.4	And it was hard.
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