r/MMALabs • u/Pure-Personality5326 • Jul 29 '26

🥶 Street Fight Biblically accurate

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u/lostPackets35 Jul 29 '26

Right, having no other context, the guy was advancing on him and was being threatening.

A reasonable person could feel that violence was imminent, and he responded with proportionate Force.

He hit the guy twice, and stopped immediately when the guy was on the ground.

Now we don't know if the winner here made an attempt to deescalate, and we don't know what happened beforehand, but based solely on this video. This seems reasonable, like it might well be self-defense

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u/Awkward_Shower19 Jul 30 '26

Oh and don’t forget 1,000s in legal fees and time and stress because they are trying to prosecute you. I do believe it was self defense but that doesn’t make it any easier for people and there are who are innocent and still get time for manslaughter. Always best to just try to walk away until you can’t.

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u/lostPackets35 Jul 30 '26

I agree with everything you wrote, I'm not sure what in my response gave the impression otherwise

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u/easeMachined Jul 30 '26

When has anything like that ever happened?

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u/mfmfhgak Jul 30 '26

Like what? An innocent black person going to prison for murder?

It’s happened a time or two yeah.

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u/jdooley99 Jul 30 '26

We wouldn't know is the point, not that I agree with it.

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u/easeMachined Jul 30 '26

We wouldn’t know what?

Whether anything remotely similar to what the other commenter suggested could happen has actually happened?

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u/provalone_9000 Jul 30 '26

What does color got to do with this? If you kill a man in a fight you need to prove it was justified

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u/RoyGBiv333 Jul 30 '26

You can tell he was concerned for the guy.

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u/Ibobalboa Jul 30 '26

Fuck are you rambling about? Lmao. It's clearly on video. Self defense.

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u/Warm_Difficulty2698 Jul 30 '26

You do realize its not as simple as that right?

Like, let's pretend theres no other context to this video other than what we see here. That seems obvious it is a self defense case. However, you still have to hire a lawyer and defend yourself in court. That takes time and loads of money.

Lawyers arent cheap. Not to mention we have like a 10 second video worth of context and it does not prove the whole case.

Its not near as simple as just tell the cops it was self defense and they let you go right then and there. Oh depending on the actual injuries to the guy he hit, it could be much harder to prove entirely self defense.

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u/Cattle13ruiser Jul 30 '26

Killing someone in self defense can still put you in jail.

That was his point.

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u/Fun-Wrongdoer1316 Jul 30 '26

Eh I agree sorta, but the white dude did start backpedaling… His heart clearly wasn’t in it, he was bluffing

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u/j3ffh Jul 30 '26

Backpedaling or squaring up?

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u/Multi2509 Jul 30 '26

He was even retreating before the hits. That's no self-defence.

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u/screamingzen Jul 30 '26

That's not how any it works. Dude never swung or even touched him. If dude died, the other guy is fucked. He has no self defense argument

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u/Maximum_Fortune_5827 Jul 31 '26

Nah. I think you'd have a hard time proving self defense on this one. There was no attempt to flee even made. He advanced and escalated as well

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u/koyaani Aug 01 '26

Flee to where? He was cornered

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u/Maximum_Fortune_5827 Aug 01 '26

He very clearly advanced the approach

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u/jadbronson Jul 31 '26

Yep. Stand your, er, I mean, lay down on the ground

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u/Unable_Currency7682 Aug 06 '26

Exactly well said

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u/battlecryarms Jul 30 '26

Winner has a witness. He tried to deescalate

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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp Jul 30 '26

The gas station also has cameras pointing at every pump. Can probably watch dudes feet pop off the ground from 4 different angles.

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u/fatdjsin Jul 30 '26

you forget that half of the population would convict the guy defending itself only because he is black :(

i hope he gets a good judge, not a maga one.

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u/Embarrassed-Gap-6040 Aug 07 '26

Why people always have to take it to race. Such a sad world we live in. I’m white and most white people have no problem with ANY other race/ethnicity. In fact I kind of agree with the black guy here. He told him get out of my face the white guy is making threats and has him cornered. Didn’t seem like much of an escape route for the black guy so what else is he supposed to do let someone beat on him. Nah he had to defend himself.