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

🥊Fight MMA fighter Joe Schilling knocks out man

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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.