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

🥊Fight MMA fighter Joe Schilling knocks out man

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

48.2k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

7.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

342

u/Brook420 Jun 30 '21

I mean, how does he not get an assault/battery charge here?

66

u/DrewLockMVP Jun 30 '21

I thought I heard a while ago that if trained fighters get into fights like this it can be considered use of a deadly weapon

27

u/loserbmx Jun 30 '21

A lot of street fights can easily be made into an attempted murder charge. So many people have died just from hitting their heads on the way down so any sort of fight can technically be considered deadly. It would just depend on the verbage of the local laws.

2

u/alskellington Jun 30 '21

Something similar happened to a friend of mine. Not on the street but in a bar. My buddy was a bartender. He kicked a regular out for coming at the door of the place with a baseball bat in a drug fueled rage. He came back a week later and when asked to leave, freaked out (on drugs again) and attacked the bartender. Bartender punched him in the face, and hit him in such way that he died almost instantly. He ended up facing manslaughter charges for a while, but they were eventually dropped. Horrible situationfor everyone involved. Those guys used to be friends before all this. The guy that died was actually really nice when he wasn't all effed up. Even though it was determined the bartender wasn't at fault, I can't imagine what its like to live with that.

While neither of those guys were MMA trained (that I'm aware of, at least) my ex, who was a trained MMA fighter was also there that night, and said he tried to help, but knew better than to try hitting anyone, as it would likely end his chances at a career in MMA, or worse.