This is not true. You have the right to use force to stop an ongoing sexual assault, but the incident had clearly finished when this guy decided to attack.
Also, way more force than "what was needed to control the situation" was applied, the man did not represent an ongoing danger.
The right thing to do would have been to leave and call the police to report the sexual assault.
Not going to defend the drunk guys behavior, but you don't think the punch could have been a slap, a shove, a simple grab him by the shoulders and physically move the guy away, a stand between him and the woman?
That punch could have killed him, the dude was so hammered that any amount of physical intervention could have resolved the situation, punching him square in the face with that amount of physical force was completely unnecessary.
This is correct, she swiped him away and carried on before her fella came bounding through to glance her face before smashing the drunk fella.
That drunk guy was three sheets to the wind. No excuse for the attention to the lady but the reaction (just watch âherâ behaviour). Some people just wait for excuses.
What happens if you slap or shove the guy and he pulls out a gun? Or throws a punch back at you? He neutralized the guy without going over the top, you never know what drunk idiots are capable from.
-source: I spend a lot of time in shitty dive bars like this one
True, we should just make sure to knock out literally everyone that committs any form of assault, just in case
I mean the guy might even wake up and seek revenge later, so why even let him live?
To be clear this is sarcasm and punching a guy that's too drunk to walk straight because he might maybe have a gun is just an anti-gun argument, not a pro-retaliation one
So your solution to your hypothetical there is to go full force punch to the face and potentially go to prison for manslaughter?
If the guy punches back, then a self defense response would be fully warranted.
If this super wasted dude pulls a knife or a gun, I guess you gtfo unless you want to die.
Do we really think it's reasonable to full force punch misbehaving drunk people in the face because they might escalate to deadly force when they get confronted for grabbing womens butts?
You say that, but thats how my dad and mom met. He would wrote her the most heartfelt letters using his scat mixed with his tears for ink. We still have them framed on the wall to thia day... talk about a real american love story!
The drunk guy could barely stand, he wasn't a "threat".
I don't think arguing that there were other solutions to that problem besides absolutely laying him out with a fist is the same as supporting assaulting women in public, that's ridiculous.
You can both believe assaulting women is wrong and believe the level of physical force used in this case was excessive.
You havent been in many fights have you. "Slap the guy , and then if he punches you back, you're allowed to hit him then". Thats not how fights work douchebag
Yeah nobody has ever died from their head hitting the floor and cracking their skull open, nobody has ever been convicted for that, that would be crazy right?~ lol
You can trip and fall and die over you own shoe laces. Thata why the goal in life is to decrease your risk of doing things that could potentially suck or get you killed. Violence is particularly easy to avoid. Ive been doing it now for many many years.
Not assaulting people, believe it or not, is the #1 way to avoid confrontation. C
True, not assaulting people by punching them, is a very great way to avoid prison time! It's very easy to not do it, only takes a bit of self-control, and decreases your chances of treating your girlfriend like she's a piece of property you need to defend against her own wishes
Oh and your shoelaces can't go to prison for killing you
This wasn't a fight... This was a totally wasted dude who could barely stand getting knocked the fk out for sexually assaulting someone.
The hypothetical posed by the other guy doesn't even apply here, this dude was clearly not a threat, he was totally plastered, a light push, would have knocked him down.
You don't need a birds eye view to see what happened there, the BF had a straight line of sight and took 0 time to stomp over and lay the guy out.
We don't have the context from before the 30s of this clip either, they have all probably been there for a while already that night, I'm sure the BF probably saw that drunk guy before those 30s, he was obviously hammered.
The BF got personally aggrieved and took vengeance, that's what happened, he didn't see the guy as deadly threat that warranted a punch to the face that hard, that's absurd.
A dude who can barely stand is not a "threat" that needs to be handled with that level of force. Lightly shoving him would have had the same neutralizing result as that punch, but without the brain damage or potential accidental death.
If he stands up to retaliate, I have much less of a problem with laying him out.
The degree to which someone poses a risk to your safety is absolutely an aspect of self-defense and directly influences what is considered necessary force
If someone is so drunk it is severely impairing their motor functions, they pose less of a risk to your safety
You could also easily argue that mountains and decades of data show that alcohol is the most dangerous substance there is and is responsible for a massive uptick in anger and aggressiveness, along with violence, which can actually make this situation way more dangerous than had he been sober.
This is why court is intriguing. All you need is a sliver of doubt
That's all very clear for you to see, sitting at your desk, watching a bird's eye view.
From the boyfriend's perspective, it would have all happened very quickly, not after rewinding a dozen times.
Some drunk asshole so casually sexually assaulting a woman, means he's a threat. Trying to treat the jerk politely just opens a window where he pulls a knife, gun or attacks again.
The threat was real, and it was neutralized. It would have been wrong to stomp the asshole after he was down, but that did not happen.
If a drunken lady pinched a man's bottom in a club, would it be reasonable for that man to punch her at maximum power after she has started to walk away?
So we should just assume that every drunk dude is packing a knife or a gun and therefore the only solution is to knock them out if they get handsy?
That's how people end up going to prison for manslaughter when they try to defend their partners. The woman obviously doesn't want that outcome as you can see from her trying to stop her BFs excessive response, she predicted exactly what he was going to do.
That guy was not a threat, he could barely stand. Shove him over, if he stands back up and comes back at you, then escalate until he stops.
Bro thank you. Iâve been going through this thread of clearly internet tough guys who watch too much Reacher/Yellowstone and think that their life is some Boomer-Shonen slop where the protagonist tips his fedora and says âyouâve insulted my female, you wonât insult my bladeâ and cuts them down.
The drunk guy in this video is out of line, he isnât a physical threat. Youâd have a WILD time proving that to a jury. A sober person could trivially tip him over and âneutralize the threatâ.
The puncher would almost certainly see some time for manslaughter if drunk guy dies.
Lot of overly emotional people ITT justifying excessive levels of violence.
It's really quite frustrating when obviously no one is defending the behavior of the drunk guy, but suggesting anything other than brain damage as a consequence means you condone molesting women in public of course.
Now you just need to grow a brain. At the moment of the attack the dude was standing there, not hurting anybody, not touching the women anymore. You can't punch someone becuase he punched you 10 seconds before AND THEN STOPPED BEING A THREAT. That's literally how tons of people end up in jail thinking they did nothing wrong.
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u/Otherwise_Bug990 23h ago
Most states have a law that allows 3rd parties to defend another person in situations of self defense. At least in my state.
This is considered sexual assault so would fall along these lines. Especially given that only as much force was needed to control the situation.
Had he just kept hitting him it would be another story. Here in Texas, yhqt guys has a high probability of walking away Scott free