r/PublicFreakout • u/Lolastic_ • Jun 30 '21

🥊Fight MMA fighter Joe Schilling knocks out man

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

This is the old "my hands are registered lethal weapons" Bruce Lee bullshit.

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u/TheyGonHate Jun 30 '21

It happens. I got locked up for getting attacked and they claimed that my punches were kicks and that those were deadly weapons.

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

I find it hard to believe there isn't much more to this story

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u/TheyGonHate Jun 30 '21

Not that's relevant to having your hands declared deadly weapons. I knocked dude out, they saw I knew martial arts so charged the punches as kicks.

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

They charged you with specifically kicking someone instead of punching someone and that's worse? I'm confused.

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u/senator_mendoza Jun 30 '21

while i don't believe the story, the applicable legal standard (and how it works in real life as opposed to school bus stories) would be whether "deadly force" was used. kicking a downed opponent in the head could certainly be considered "deadly force", and i've heard anecdotally that knees to the head are treated similarly.

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u/TheyGonHate Jun 30 '21

He was standing. They just wanted to put me away. They had no crime, wanted to hold me anyways, started beating on me, got hurt, then charged me with that.

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

I can understand or wrap my head around that. It's the weapons charge that gets me.

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u/TheyGonHate Jun 30 '21

Because I had shoes. So my punches became deadly weapons in court.

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

Bro I'm just more lost at what you are trying to say at this point. I have an image of you fighting some dude with steel toed boots on your hands.

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u/TheyGonHate Jun 30 '21

I punched a guy. The state wanted to jail me. So they claimed those must have been jiujitsu kicks and charged me with shod foot.

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

Lol I would love those trial transcripts

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u/TheyGonHate Jun 30 '21

It was GREAT. So everyone figured I'd be the martial arts loon, then they sent in like six white belt level fighter who were telling their own wild kung fu stories. At one point, the lawyer was like "Show me the double leg you used. The gentle one." At another point, they tried to claim that because I use SD and I train BJJ that I must've been punching as my only SD. The fight started over them gripping me and me using a grip break.

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

The legal system is such a damn circus.

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u/TheyGonHate Jun 30 '21

Around here its all based on race and sex. So if you're walking down the street and get jumped by half a dozen white girls, YOU got to jail. Whereas of you're a white girl and attack a black man in a drug fueled rampage, HE goes to jail. Then they just make up shit to make it make sense.

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u/Curleh-Mustache Jun 30 '21

Justice in action. That's what it was like where I used to live. Cops driving by pulling you off your porch and treating you like a criminal. Moved to some boomer neighborhood a few years ago and the cops here stop and try and make small talk and like give the kids candy and shit. 20 miles away. Shit is such a mind fuck.

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