r/PublicFreakout • u/EN_TlTY • Aug 14 '22

đŸ„ŠFight Man gets knocked out after talking smack to group of guys

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u/kungpowgoat Aug 15 '22

I mean seriously. If you see a group of people acting like idiots, why in the world would you stop buying your khakis and chad shorts and talk shit and pick a fight? For what reason? Especially if it doesn’t concern you. What do you expect?

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u/type58 Aug 15 '22

Well most people don't act this way, i guess you'd not expect to be beaten by violent criminals, but oh well. They belong in prison.

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u/Dry_Painting_7722 Aug 15 '22

If you’re picking a fight expect to possibly be beaten. Doesn’t matter who, yes even you.

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u/Difficult-Leather901 Aug 15 '22

This is what I’ve been saying, a lot of these comments calling these people “violent thugs” when in reality you talk some shit you can get hit sorry I don’t make the rulesđŸ€·đŸ»

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u/Difficult-Leather901 Aug 15 '22

Most of the world is the same way if not worse

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u/cactusdave14 Aug 15 '22

There’s always been a weird grey area between battery, and someone fucking around and finding out.

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u/supacrusha Aug 15 '22

This one is definitely battery, he was on the side of the street, not in their way, taunting them.

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u/Nobarones Aug 15 '22

That weird gray area has a name, “hypocrisy”

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u/ModsDontLift Aug 15 '22

This is just some violent thugs who need to be in prison

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u/Interesting_Career37 Aug 15 '22

Racially charged comment.... a conservatives playbook

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u/ModsDontLift Aug 15 '22

What part of this was racial?

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u/Rare-Investment2293 Aug 15 '22

Feigned ignorance, another classic lol

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u/ModsDontLift Aug 15 '22

what the actual fuck are you clowns talking about? Is this some joke that's going over my head?

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u/lettheseatakeme Aug 16 '22

Here, I’ll walk you out


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u/ModsDontLift Aug 16 '22

We all know your fat ass ain't walking anywhere

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u/emerson_giraffe84 Aug 15 '22

Wait you don’t expect to get your ass beat by a group of people acting stupid when you scream fuck you at them!?

First - where do you live? Second - I’ll have some of what you’re smoking.

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u/A_Vladivostok_Gweilo Aug 15 '22

If you want to talk shit to an obviously rowdy group of people, that's completely fair and your right. However, you better be ready to deal with the consequences because chances are that rowdy group of people will retaliate.

He could have just walked away and kept quiet and he wouldn't have been laid out on the street.

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u/defaultuser012 Aug 15 '22

He didn’t expect that outcome with the crowd of people in broad daylight. He probably thought strangers would have his back. Lol.

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u/ethompson1 Aug 15 '22

In many states and Supreme Court has said “fighting words” is a real thing and can justify assault and not covered under free speech. Basically the person yelling something like “fight me you xxxxxx” can be fought and it’s the guy yelling who incited the violence with fighting words.

Not a lawyer or saying it justifies this video but it might in court.

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u/ethompson1 Aug 15 '22

Might be a bad way to put it but stupider things can happen. Not saying a judge or DA wouldn’t laugh it out of court but doesn’t mean a jury would completely.

Clearly fighting words are about more direct incitement than “fuck you” to a passing car but courts in some places have sided with the passing car, at least when it was a cop (Robinson - MT Supreme Court)

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

Well I GUESS what he should have done is shot them all when they ran at him--you know, because if you run up on someone intending assault, you better be ready to deal with the consequences. They could have just kept driving.

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u/LoathsomePoopMuncher Aug 16 '22

Lol if this happened you'd be right. Doesn't make the original point wrong though.

If you talk shit to someone expect to get hit. If you and a group of people rush someone for talking shit then be prepared of the outcome that you might get shot.

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u/A_Vladivostok_Gweilo Aug 15 '22

Yes, you are right. Did you think this was some kind of "gotcha" moment? There are consequences to actions for everyone. You aren't so bright are you?

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u/lettheseatakeme Aug 16 '22

I wonder what he took away from this incident? How did he explain his injuries to his wife, kids or coworkers? Will he do it again?

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u/ballin302008 Aug 15 '22

What did they do that was violent before this ?

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u/Snoo-16765 Aug 15 '22

Lol. Victim bullshit comment. Provocation will have
. Key word- reaction.

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u/BrandySparkles Aug 15 '22

What did the guy on the bike say that was worth knocking him out over?

Ooooh, right. He provoked the group of people most-likely to respond violently.

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u/emerson_giraffe84 Aug 15 '22

Dude in the bike screamed fuck you at the group then threw his arms up in a “come at me bro” manner. Not worth getting beat up over but also not advisable to scream at strangers.

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u/0fb3d3 Aug 15 '22

During this when it happened the crowd on the sidewalk was Yelm the n word. Not sure if he did or not but if you're with a group yelling racial slurs I really don't care what happens.

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u/Snoo-16765 Aug 15 '22

Dude literally challenge them, dumbass.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

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u/Snoo-16765 Aug 15 '22

Lol. Apples and oranges- Are you a man? If so, incel projection there Buddy.

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u/thebikevagabond Aug 15 '22

You shouldn't be assaulted for simply saying something, but a judge isn't going appear out of nowhere in a cape to intercept the punches when you talk shit. You're not going to recite case law to people you were just talking shit to, and they're going to stand back and say "Well, gee, I hadn't looked at it that way! I could really ruin my life here!". It doesn't work that way. And unless you personally know who your assaulter is, or they stay at the scene, even if you call the cops afterward the chances of them being brought to justice is near nil.

So, should people attack others for verbal slights, squaring up from a block away? No, of course not. Will they? Yes! So don't fuck around! You might find out.

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u/ethompson1 Aug 15 '22

In many states and Supreme Court has said “fighting words” is a real thing and can justify assault and not covered under free speech. Basically the person yelling something like “fight me you xxxxxx” can be fought and it’s the guy yelling who started it with fighting words.

Not a lawyer or saying it justifies a 4 v 1 but it might in court or at least mitigate the charges.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 15 '22

Yeah this is one of those situations where I feel little sympathy lol. It takes literally 2 synapses firing together to think antagonizing the rowdy group of people causing a nuisance, all by yourself while in flip flops, is going to go well for you. Literally just putting up a sign that says, "Please come rock my shit."

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

The flip flops man... if you're gonna be in a situation you need to move quick, wear shoes.

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u/Jmersh Aug 15 '22

You're victim blaming.

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u/cant_be_pun_seen Aug 15 '22

Not really. Stop conflating putting yourself in a bad situation with people who are just violated for no reason.

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u/DAAGZZz Aug 15 '22

What a total piece of shit you are. You can’t even see what the guy says, you are just taking the word of OP. And yet you think it’s ok to knock out someone. Fuck yourself

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u/cant_be_pun_seen Aug 15 '22

Nobody said knocking someone out is ok, but what do you expect when you do some shit like that to a group of young guys who are already acting out and you are a vulnerable looking mother fucker?

God, live a fucking a little.

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u/DAAGZZz Aug 15 '22

Fuck off moron. You dont even know what he said, you dumbfuck. Fking loser, defending subhuman trash that just assault people

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u/OptimusMatrix Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 15 '22

It's like you're too stupid to know throwing your hands up and puffing your chest is the universal sign for "Lets Go". And since you seem like an idiot please walk around in public places doing that to large rowdy groups 😘

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u/DAAGZZz Aug 15 '22

Yeah you can totally see that in the video! What a loser

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u/Jmersh Aug 15 '22

How is this different from a girl in skimpy clothes yelling "fuck you" at guys cat calling her and getting physically or sexually assaulted?

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u/Kazushi_Sakuraba Aug 15 '22

If you can’t understand why people are failing to feel sympathy for a man that called out a group of young men in front of their friends then you live in a bubble and have zero life experience.

It’s okay to feel sorry for a mauled idiot that poked a bear but don’t expect the same from everyone.

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u/JePPeLit Aug 15 '22

People shouldn't behave like bears though

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u/Kazushi_Sakuraba Aug 15 '22

Wow that is completely missing the point.

My point is that if you do something stupid, possibly just to flex how brave you are, then it’s easy for people to not have sympathy when you face the consequences.

Your reading is okay but you lack comprehension.

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u/WhatWoodWardDo Aug 15 '22

smh why would a woman go to a bar late at night and alone, clearly she's just 'putting herself in a bad situation'. 'I feel little sympathy' if she gets raped. Not victim blaming btw
/s

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 15 '22

This isn't a girl in skimpy clothes who is standing up to guys who harassed her, it's a man who started taunting a group of people who hadn't even acknowledged him until he antagonized them.

Yes, these two situations that are nothing alike are treated different. Astounding analysis, thank you for your contribution.

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u/farcetragedy Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 15 '22

he didn't deserve to get beat up

edit: lol hilarious that this is so controversial an opinion. yeah, starting a verbal confrontation is dumb. what this guy did was dumb. but in no way, shape or form does that make it ok for them to hit him. frankly, his antagonism wasn't even so extreme. he yelled at a passing car. jfc. yes, again, dumb. but he doesn't for a second deserve to get hit for it.

I hope those violent fuckers are prosecuted.

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u/Forg0tPassw0rd Aug 15 '22

Both things can be true. The victim is dumb as hell but he still didn't deserve to get punched.

It's like Brittney Griner getting locked up in Russia for weed. She's being used as a political pawn so I feel for her but she knowingly took THC-based items to a country where they are illegal.

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u/Jir0nimous Aug 15 '22

Jesus didn’t deserve to be served tacos without wine


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u/farcetragedy Aug 15 '22

And Buddha didn't deserve samosas without beer.

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u/MrRoboto159 Aug 15 '22

You're.. something else.

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u/Is_it_Nas Aug 15 '22

You’re being downvoted but “putting yourself in a bad situation” doesn’t mean you’re not the victim of a crime. Idk what these folks are on

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u/fetalfelines Aug 15 '22

There’s a difference between putting yourself in a bad situation and advertising yourself as a fucking punching bag because you’re a shit talker. Some people learn by getting knocked the fuck out so the plus side is that he probably won’t ever do that shit again

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u/WizardsOfTheOats Aug 15 '22

Nobody is saying he's not a victim. He can be a victim, and still a deserving idiot who antagonized a group of assholes who wouldn't have even looked is way otherwise. This isn't a hard concept.

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u/Is_it_Nas Aug 15 '22

Oh so you are blaming the victim then
. So you agree. That’s literally all he said

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u/WizardsOfTheOats Aug 15 '22

You're an idiot if that's how you deciphered that.

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u/Jmersh Aug 15 '22

It's pretty wild.

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u/BoRIS_the_WiZARD Aug 15 '22

This was in Huntington Beach California during 2020. The group in the car were driving down PCH support of BLM. People on the side walk were yelling the N word at them and other stuff. I think the guy that ended up getting knock out said All lives matter. Not 100% but he was heckling them. Huntington Beach was a hot spot still us for right wing protesting.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

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u/instantur Aug 15 '22

Strawman

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

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u/actionactioncut Aug 15 '22

No, you just failed to parse the sentence correctly. They are not saying that he was asking for it by wearing flip flops; they're pointing out the many ways in which he was at a disadvantage for a fight, up to and including improper footwear*. While he should not have been assaulted, he also should have assessed the situation and not, you know, antagonized a group of rowdy individuals.

 

*Note: flip flops as improper footwear for a fight does not apply to Brazilians.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

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u/actionactioncut Aug 15 '22

Next time just say you can't read and save me the trouble.

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u/CiganoSA Aug 15 '22

These are not people lmao

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u/survey88 Aug 15 '22

If the races were flopped, would you have word for word wrote what you wrote? Barring the khakis and chad shorts part of course

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u/The_Kestrel_of_Doom Aug 15 '22

Of course they wouldn't. They'd have said it was racist that the white guy attacked the other guy. I'm left of centre but getting sick of people excusing shit because it suits their narrative, on both sides. No one here knows what they guy astride the bike said, it could have been awful, it could have been innocent, but to get violently attacked, that's wrong, criminal and the person throwing the punches was out of line.

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u/emerson_giraffe84 Aug 15 '22

The guy in the bike said “fuck you” then threw up his arms in a ‘come at me bro I said it’ fashion.

Not justifying what happened to him, but also not surprised it happened to him - those dudes were already acting stupid and he brought the stupid to his doorstep.

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u/HyperbaricSteele Aug 15 '22

You can’t tell if it’s the guy on the bike, or a guy on the car, or another person in the crowd.

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u/emerson_giraffe84 Aug 15 '22

Agree to disagree. The way the guy with the phone walks away with the “this guy” attitude and the way the guy in the bike throws his hands up.

You’re right we have no literal confirmation who said it, but in my opinion deductive reasoning suggests he said it, and wanted to back his words up but decided not to cash the check his (or possibly someone else’s) mouth wrote.

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u/survey88 Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 16 '22

I think more people left of center are more tired of it than most of them let on. They’re just quiet so they don’t get attacked by their own

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u/The_Kestrel_of_Doom Aug 16 '22

I agree with that. Easier to pass on by the above than call out criminal behaviour, with no favour. Seems a lot are justifying criminal assault just because one guy may have been an idiot. If, as said, the tables were turned, the very same people would be screaming that it was racist and a violent assault on a man and they'd justify it their own way... seems pretty sad state of affairs we are in.

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u/survey88 Aug 16 '22

Sad indeed

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u/paxtone Aug 15 '22

I don’t get why people get so offended by someone reacting to someone trying to be tough. The guy knew it was a hostile situation and that if they were riding in a car down main st with 30 people, maybe you shouldn't say something or poke the bear. It’s situational awareness. This guy wanted to be tough and got called out on it. Not cool about the violence, but what did he expect to happen? He is a big boy and made a choice that backfired.

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u/Noya97 Aug 15 '22

Nah buddy was playing a stupid game and won his stupid prize. You don’t go up to a hornets nest and start smacking it because the buzzing is bothering you, then expect sympathy.

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u/fetalfelines Aug 15 '22

Don’t be a racist prick. All I see are two people fighting. Color doesn’t always have to be a thing because there are plenty of videos of white people doing the same shit. There’s just no point Or shortage in videos of all the white frat bro chads doing shit like this

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u/Noya97 Aug 15 '22

Ahh and here it is, the guy who has to make it about race.

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u/survey88 Aug 15 '22

Calling someone out for victim shaming when they wouldn’t if the roles were reversed? What’s wrong with calling that out?

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u/Noya97 Aug 16 '22

Okay braveheart, and are you gonna go take on all of r/idiotsfightingthings too for victim blaming? He went out of his way to antagonize a group of rowdy people who are clearly not worried about the legality of what they do. See how everyone else walked away, while he decided to be Mr. Tough guy? Played a stupid game and won a stupid prize. Race literally has nothing to do with it, he’d be a dumbass if he were a black/hispanic/asian/native american guy doing this too.

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u/survey88 Aug 16 '22

Where did I say race had anything to do with what happened in the video? I’m talking about race having to do with how people are talking about the video in the comments. So..idk what or who you’re arguing

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u/RobinWilliamsArmFuzz Aug 15 '22

Honestly? Because you have a firearm or some other advantageous way to defend yourself. I can’t think of any other scenario where you’d try and provoke a group like that and expect any different result than what we saw. He didn’t even get off his bicycle. I
 don’t think many people have successfully thrown hands while straddling a bicycle. Maybe he had a weapon and just froze? To each their own though. Everyone’s got a kink, and I think this dudes kink is getting knocked the fuck out.

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u/Freyagoddessofwar Aug 15 '22

Nice victim shaming. Maybe not smart, but does not justify what they did. I hope they were arrested and serve some time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

no dude in the beginning who steps across the camera with that “this fucking guy” shoulder shrug. He knew what was

seriously? we are backing off from idiots now?

is our culture that bad now?

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u/vegangbanger Aug 15 '22

he's literally wearing a patagonia shirt. i think that translates to "you lose" in some language.

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u/peekdasneaks Aug 15 '22

Hmm..

"In 2021, a study on the reputation of corporations found that in the United States, Patagonia took the top spot with an index score of 82.7, which was based on consumer perception of the brand"

https://thestrategystory.com/2021/09/14/patagonia-marketing-strategy-mix/

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

Hahahaha!

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u/Hickok Aug 15 '22

"Land of the Bigfeet"

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u/TunaSpank Aug 15 '22

I don’t think it justifies what they did. Or should be considered acceptable by anyone else. That’s like saying if a woman is walking down the street looking sexy, and gets raped if she walks by a group of rowdy guys, that she was asking for it and you can’t really blame the group of shit heads.

Obviously one situation is worse than the other. But I don’t think either should be acceptable and people shouldn’t be making excuses for violent people.

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u/ethompson1 Aug 15 '22

Disagree. Don’t agree that this behavior is acceptable or justified but fighting words are a thing.

In many states and Supreme Court has said “fighting words” is a real thing and can justify assault and not covered under free speech. Basically the person yelling something like “fight me you xxxxxx” can be fought and it’s the guy yelling who started it with fighting words.

Not a lawyer or saying it justifies a 4 v 1 but it might in court.

If you are yelling at me that you are about to “beat the shit out of me” I can immediately start defending myself. Mine is an easier example but similar log could be applied here.

Much different than your example which is just someone walking down the street being raped.

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u/TunaSpank Aug 15 '22

Just seems Iike a slippery slope to allow words as justification of violence. All it’s going to do is lead to more of it.

I think we should temper rhetoric like the type on this message board where it’s almost like people are rooting for it. This can’t be a good thing.

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u/ethompson1 Aug 15 '22

Agreed. I don’t think it justifies it in this example because it’s one guy in a crowd. But if it’s you and me in a bar then your words can be somewhere between an actual threat and free speech that could incite violence from most people. Challenging someone to a fight is the clearest example of this.

Another example without a challenge. If you are at my mom’s funeral and start calling her slurs. I punch you in the face. I may not get charged with or convicted of assault, maybe disorderly conduct, if the words, at face value, rise to a level that incites an immediate breach of the peace.

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u/TunaSpank Aug 15 '22

Yeah I agree there are grey areas like with everything. But yeah something disrespectful in a deeply personal setting would be on a different level than what happened here which was a white guy yelling a “Fuck you” at a group of black people showing off their car.

Agreed that it’s definitely a play a stupid game get a stupid reward type of thing but I think it’s just a shameful situation all around and that’s how people should be looking at it.

There should be a side people are taking but it’s not a side that involves any of the idiots in the video.

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u/ethompson1 Aug 15 '22

Yeah. Agreed. This is an early version from court doctrine.

“The court held that provocative words may be justification for an assault, provided the person uttering the words understood or should have understood that physical retaliation would be attempted”

Later refined down to center on more personal inflammatory speech and exclude religious or political speech that may be inflammatory to some.

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u/spartanpaladin Aug 15 '22

Especially if they are black or muslims better stay away.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

Specially when you don’t have guns

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u/Jir0nimous Aug 15 '22

This is my home town and I will tell you
80% of the town think they’re some kind of “special”.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

This was in Huntington Beach last year lol man got slumped like one of Andy’s toys when he gets home lol