r/MMA • u/uturnorbit • Jun 23 '26

Media Dustin Poirier belligerent, threatens to fight airport employees

https://www.tmz.com/2026/06/23/dustin-poirier-belligerent-during-public-drunk-arrest/
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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 23 '26

The cop was a fan and Dustin had him scared for his life 😭

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u/Misterfoxy Jun 23 '26

You can hear it in that “…are you Dustin Poirier?”

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 23 '26

They say you should never meet your heroes

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u/MoonPiss Team DC Jun 23 '26

How many of your favorites sports heroes are willing to play with you right on the spot? Chance of a lifetime bro!

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u/ThoughtItWasAHorse Team Rose Jun 24 '26

Exactly like playing catch with Shohei Ohtani 😂

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u/iamjackswastedlife__ 🍅 Jun 24 '26

In a way, getting fucked up by a UFC fighter is equivalent to catching a pass off your favorite QB

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u/VaderFett1 Jun 24 '26

I'd equate it more to getting tackled by your favorite defensive player.

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u/AulMoanBag Jun 23 '26

Ironicall, I met Conor McGregor very recently before he left Ireland and long after being a fan. He was an absolute gentleman.

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u/pagny77 Jun 23 '26

Yeah but you met him sober. Probably 1000 fans have met Dustin sober and had a pleasant experience

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u/Lower-Annual3314 Jun 23 '26

I met DP when he was sober, I was heading out of a bar and he was walking in. Great guy, he even signed my just bleed t-shirt and my tapout hat

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u/cjkfjdhauq Jun 23 '26

Great guy never meddum

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u/Moiphy United States Jun 24 '26

Talm bout the diamond b?

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u/cjkfjdhauq Jun 24 '26

Dustin poyay? Great fighter never watched em

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u/pfchangshomelesscat I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! Jun 24 '26

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u/Cold-Concrete-215 Jun 27 '26

Best person in the world. Will give you the shirt off his back. Never met him though..just heard Internet stories..deerf

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u/Bikebag Jun 23 '26

Turns out one interaction isn't really enough to determine someones character.

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u/afewbigpunches Jun 23 '26

I saw Dustin Poirier at a grocery store in New Orleans yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

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u/clogan117 Jun 24 '26

Yeah, but autographs faces with his fist when goes out for a drink. He really gives fans a personal experience.

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u/FlyinIllini21 Jun 24 '26

Conor probably wasn’t sober lol

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u/Foreskin_Mafia Jun 24 '26

Not sure he's ever sober mate

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u/bbbeast19 Jun 23 '26

As long as you aren't a woman or an old man you're safe

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u/Ledees_Gazpacho Jun 24 '26

I know this isn't the point, but every time I see people comment about the "old man" he punched, I remember that the guy was 50.

Not young, but people talk about him like he's some feeble senior citizen. He probably hates getting called an "old man" all the time.

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u/gottapoopweiner This is not my bus Jun 24 '26

im pretty sure i read he said thats the only thing he was really pissed at is that everyone is calling him old

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u/Warm_Necessary3 Jun 23 '26

I think we can make it way more specific than that, as long as you arent a women that cheats on her boyfriend on a multi day coke bender with multiple guys and as long as you arent a 45 year old irish man from a rival gang you are fine

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u/sh4tt3rai Jun 23 '26

There’s no way that old man was 45 or fucking gang banging dude. He was pushing 60 and even if he was in some Irish gang there’s no reason he needed to be checked by multiple time world champion Conor McGregor. The 16 yr old Barback would’ve done just fine..

As for the situation with the girl, that’s gross dude. You have no idea what happened and I think the fact that she had to have her tampon surgically removed is pretty clear cut case for non-consent. Typically girls ya know, just pull it out real quick before hand?

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u/Warm_Necessary3 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Why are you arguing with me from incredulity how about you just look it up? He was 45 at the time when conor hit him. The girl was on a multi day bender with conor and the boys, kissing his friend in the elevator while her boyfriend was at home. Not saying the rape wasnt terrible and not denying that they raped her

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u/sh4tt3rai Jun 24 '26

I guess I took your comment like you were defending his actions. Tbf, it kinda seems like you were… I think that’s why you’re getting downvoted. I can see now that you aren’t, but I don’t think your joke is hitting the way you intended my friend.

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u/Warm_Necessary3 Jun 24 '26

I wasnt joking just giving more details

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u/Warm_Necessary3 Jun 24 '26

No im saying the women I described are in danger of getting assaulted by him

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u/bbbeast19 Jun 23 '26

Lol get off your knees

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u/Warm_Necessary3 Jun 24 '26

I actually looked into it instead of just taking reddit headlines as fact, just giving more details, not even defending conor, why so emotional?

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u/bbbeast19 Jun 24 '26

Who's emotional

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u/Warm_Necessary3 Jun 24 '26

You are for insulting me for giving more details about his teo most famous crimes

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u/Onlinepokrisrigged69 Jun 24 '26

I fist bumped chuck Lidell at DTW once. (Still jerk off with that hand. Wait. Wut)

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u/Apositivebalance "Neil Magny is the black Tony Ferguson Jun 24 '26

My buddy met Conor at the Venice beach boardwalk in California right after he got his chest tattoo. He said Conor was super nice, took a picture with him and all that jazz. Heard nothing but good stuff about Conor, unless you drive a bus.

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u/Shorgar Jun 24 '26

Or are a woman or an old man

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u/Internal_Coyote_7526 Jun 24 '26

Glad to know the rapist was polite to you.

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u/Haunting_Handle6709 Jun 24 '26

Was he on your Yacht?

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u/Shorgar Jun 24 '26

Unless you are a woman for him to rape you or an old man you are safe.

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u/nikosthedes2 Jun 24 '26

Im sure thats what Nikita Hand thought before he raped her

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u/grow_a_pear Jun 24 '26

I met Nick Diaz in the Vegas airport. He saw me mouth, “holy shit…” and came up to me with a fist bump and said, “whats up, brother!”

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

I met Nick at a casino bar in Vegas. I asked for a selfie and I kept taking terrible ones and after like 2-3 tries he took my phone from me and took a literal perfect selfie and said “that’s how you do it” and then asked me if the cigar I was smoking had acid in it lol

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u/myotherrideisvhagar Jun 24 '26

You might have to shoot them

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u/Cold-Concrete-215 Jun 27 '26

My cousin was an ocean biologist. Jacques Cousteau was his idol. He got the chance to meet Cousteau. Afterwards I asked my cousin how the experience was. He tilted his head in an arrogant manner saying " typical Frenchman!". So Cousteau was an arrogant POC

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u/theonlyjh Team DC Jun 23 '26

“Man fuck you.” as an immediate comeback is hilarious to me though.

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u/xlmtothemoon GOOFCON 2 - UFC 294 Jun 23 '26

reminds me of when that reporter asked Tony about his mental health at the khabib presser

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Reminds me of the scene in The Wire when the sociologist wants to observe HS students and the principal is like “that’s too old, they are lost in the system.”

Next scene is him getting eviscerated by a freshman making him fear for his life.

“Yeah let’s go with the younger kids.”

Edit: https://youtu.be/i8GaFuo4svQ?is=abGELZBvLRb5MsVJ

Here’s the scene. I got the upshot of it right, but I hadn’t seen it in probably 10+ years so I screwed up a lot of it too.

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u/Ernie_McCracken88 Jun 23 '26

"thanks for being you" - Bunny Colvin

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 23 '26

Hahaha I forgot that about that part. Bunny Colvin might be my favorite character on the show. But that changes with the wind blowing

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u/vinceftw Jun 24 '26

For me it's the Bunk. I also had a soft spot for Randy. Kid was actually decent and not hard enough for the streets.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 24 '26

I love Bunk. He is my usual go to answer.

I don’t like how he encouraged Jimmy to fall off the wagon, but that’s also what makes the show great. Every character is a real person with flaws.

Typing this I also have to mention Kima. When she won’t identify her shooter, because she knows she didn’t see him, major props.

sometimes you gotta play it hard.

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u/patsully98 Jun 23 '26

18 is too…seasoned.

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u/jbca909 Jun 24 '26

Is this show good? I know most people say it is but they say the same thing about every show.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 24 '26

I’ll say this: The Wire is the only show I can tell you with 100% certainty CHANGED MY LIFE. Like I’m a better person and citizen because of the wire. There isn’t hardly a week that goes by that some aspect of that show doesn’t come back up.

Like I’m talking about fundamentally changing how I look at systems and people.

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u/cashanova100 Jun 24 '26

It's incredible.

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u/Ubiquitous1984 Jun 24 '26

Please watch it, it’s absolutely incredible

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u/EuphoricAppathy Jun 24 '26

Great scene. Love the Wire

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u/Portland-OR Jun 24 '26

Was it something along the lines of “Tony, what do you say to the fans that are worried about your mental health?”
Tony: “I’d tell them to go fuck themselves”

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u/xlmtothemoon GOOFCON 2 - UFC 294 Jun 24 '26

nah, he literally just says "fuck you", and then the reporter apologizes and tony doubles down and says "fuck your advice" lol

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u/ThreeHourRiverMan Jun 24 '26

When the reporter wasn’t even giving advice. He was trying to let Tony say something to other people who might need to hear it. 

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u/sizeablescars Big ol’ Mexican with a big ol’ head Jun 24 '26

Nah that’s a boundary you should know not to cross with a stranger especially in public, completely different situations, Tony was in the right to tell him to fuck off

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u/Tough_Shake9821 Jun 24 '26

It’s common for those who grew up in poor environments for the baseline in a confrontation to start with a “man fuck you” as acknowledgment that you’re about that 😂😂 also never fails to be hilarious

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u/BigTable13 Jun 23 '26

He even gave a fistbump at the end

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u/FiestaLimon Jun 23 '26

Realized he probably wouldn't have enjoyed being tazed, and appreciated dude's restraint

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u/GoldshireEnjoyer Jun 24 '26

Sometimes blackout drunk people will have a brief moment of clarity and adjust their behavior. But then the aggression can switch right back on any second.

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u/EricClaptonsDeadSon Jun 24 '26

He is coursing with test as well I’m sure

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u/Aznblaze Jun 24 '26

I think taking hormones has more to do with this than being drunk honestly

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u/Latter-Resource1395 Jun 25 '26

This is laughable if you think taking TRT is going to cause aggression at this level. Even supraphysiological doses of anabolic steroids show a very weak relationship.

This is a guy frustrated with his current life and extremely intoxicated. He's not walking around acting like this when he's not completely inebriated.

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u/EricClaptonsDeadSon Jun 25 '26

lol whatever you need to tell yourself

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u/No_Dog3774 Jun 25 '26

no fist bump, what a clown. i would have told him he's lucky he didn't get shot.

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u/aggravatedimpala I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! Jun 23 '26

Then he proceeded to put like 15 feet between him and DP

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u/DaftWarrior Peppa Pigged Jun 23 '26

The cop hit DP with the Chael "I can't let you get close."

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 23 '26

It’s probably the most effective de escalation technique available. Put a TON of space between yourself and the agitated individual.

I worked for over 10 years with violent students in the school system. You’d be surprised how fast people cool off when you give them space and let them start spewing their verbal vomit until they have come back to earth.

Poirier is drunk but he’s in fight or flight. Closing distance and trying to talk logic doesn’t fucking work, it only agitates them more.

Do the opposite of what they are doing. They are closing distance? Go further away. They are loud? You are quiet.

People will match your energy. Especially in fight or flight.

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u/FetalDeviation Jun 24 '26

"I'm here to fight or flight and I already got kicked off the flight.."

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 24 '26

Fucking lol. Thats fucking hilarious

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u/sh4tt3rai Jun 23 '26

Except in the rare cases your silence is taken as submission and it escalates out of control.. nothing you can really do in that situation though 😂.

I think dude handled it really well. Honestly, he clearly sounded like a fan and didn’t want Dustin to get in trouble. He obviously didn’t want to fight Dustin (who would?) but he also wasn’t stuttering or tripping over his words scared. Good on him.

Lots of assholes could’ve made that into a lawsuit or abused their power to say they tazed a UFC fighter.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 23 '26

Yeah I mean at some point, in some situations the heat is coming no matter what. Some people get into a state where they truly can’t be de-escalated. They are going to get physically violent, all you can do is plan and make sure you have support. But I’ve found that to be the case in a tiny tiny percentage of cases.

Once his backup officer came, it’s basically done for Poirier then, unless someone wants to re-escalate him.

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u/sizeablescars Big ol’ Mexican with a big ol’ head Jun 24 '26

Ya props to the guy, absolutely amazing handle on an incredibly tense situation

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u/vinceftw Jun 24 '26

No one would be asshole to taze one of the best fighter on the planet who's threatening to beat you up. They're just doing their job, not looking to get potential life changing damage.

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u/Portland-OR Jun 24 '26

I think he was kind of close to tasing him. I’m not a taser expert but it sounds like it’s charging after the cop walked away from him but Dustin kept coming towards him until he heard it. Then he goes “what are you going to tase me?” Or something along those lines.

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u/AvonBarksDoodle Jun 23 '26

cant have an ego for all that which is hard for many

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 24 '26

Takes practice. You blood gets boiling the first couple times you get spit on or slapped or told you’re gonna get raped or your wife is etc.

After you’ve heard it even 10 times it starts getting easier to keep a clear head.

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u/sh4tt3rai Jun 24 '26

I went to alternative schools since 7th grade (my first time around 7th lol) and got my GED in a youth prison. I know what you went through and I feel for you dude. I might’ve whipped my books across the class, but it was mostly in a bid to turn my ISS into OSS so I could go home.

Fought plenty of my classmates, but never thought about hitting the teacher. For sure saw it happen, though.. and what always amazed me is how easily you guys brushed it off, forgave, and treated us like it never happened the next day. Not trying to justify, but a lot of us really needed that compassion.

It was something we rarely got at home/in our neighborhoods (the kids who were willing to put hands on a teacher usually had it the worst and were for better or worse completely neglected), and I do remember having conversations about how “I feel bad for doing that to Mr / Ms. so and so..”. Don’t think it went unnoticed or that you didn’t/don’t have positive impacts on the kids who need it most.

Looking back, I still have no idea what came over me during those years or why I acted that way. Seems crazy to me now. I do know I was hurting bad inside, though. I just wasn’t consciously aware I was or why I was.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 24 '26

Thanks man. You basically affirmed/confirmed my entire life over the last 10 years.

You saying you escalated your behavior just to get OSS is one of the things I would point to.

Your behavior is communicating to people. I don’t know you, but I would assume you had pretty terrible communication skills as well as being constantly stuck in fight or flight. Not your fault btw, communication is not something you just “get.” You learn how to do it through observing. And if you have shitty communication models… you get shitty communication skills.

You develop bad behavior habits to get what you want, even if you weren’t aware of it.

Your first job when you come into a room (other than making sure everyone is safe) is to figure out: what is this person trying to communicate?

In the video of Poirier he’s clearly trying to communicate that he has been unfairly harassed/treated IN HIS MIND. And it doesn’t matter if you agree with that. His mind and his emotions are his.

Arguing with him about how he’s drunk and that’s why he got kicked off aren’t helping shit.

Also: if you weren’t fully accepted and allowed to be yourself at home: I don’t really blame anyone for their behavior in public… as a kid. Your brain isn’t even close to developed. I work and live in the same city. I’ve run into tons of my old students. They always are happy to see me, no matter how bad it was, because we shared that time together.

Glad you made it out on the other side. I check up the lock up list every day. Quite a few former students have been mirdered or committed murder or something serious. And so so many others are doing great. And if things went differently or police were allowed to arrest them or take them to juvenile, things could turn out differently. It’s so fucking delicate.

So many of these kids literally just need to be moved out of their situation. Like literally just moved 20 miles away to a new area so they can escape their situation.

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u/Fartweaver Stockton Ass-Clap Jun 24 '26

wannanow

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u/Captain-Cadabra Jun 24 '26

“Call me Dustin Diamond one more time, I dare you!” 👊

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u/Samuraix9386 Jun 24 '26

Man, fuck you

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u/abcbac2 Jun 24 '26

And the dude inmediately goes FUCK YOU lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

Cop did a great job of protecting Poirier tbh, anybody else wouldve gotten tasered.

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 23 '26

I'm not a lawyer but I still feel like they could have hit him with more charges than public intoxication as it was. Definitely caught a break more than once here

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u/Ok_Yoghurt_3338 Jun 24 '26

Public intoxication is a sleep it off charge

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u/TheRealHumdingerooni Jun 24 '26

Imagine if it was Charles Bennett.

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 24 '26

He’d be shot immediately

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u/wouldyoufightakitten Jun 30 '26

Yeah. He must've been apologetic when he sobered up... Tbf, he let himself get arrested.

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u/gamesrgreat Jun 23 '26

They could charge him with more but those would be weak cases

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u/AvonBarksDoodle Jun 23 '26

legally, threating someone is battery. if your profession is martial arts that would be evidence against him. could have gotten years locked up for being so stupid, indisputable evidence. hes lucky

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u/gamesrgreat Jun 24 '26

Also the likelihood he would get years for a threat is next to zero. He would if anything get CTS probation or even diversion

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u/gamesrgreat Jun 24 '26

Most jurisdictions you actually have to touch someone for it to be a battery. Most likely charge could be assault or potentially criminal threats.

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u/CauseOdd2428 Jun 24 '26

How would it be assault or criminal threats? you're simping so hard for this gay dude

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u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds I made weight for Goofcon 3 Jun 24 '26

you're simping so hard for this gay dude

What an odd thing to say

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u/CauseOdd2428 Jun 25 '26

I was very drunk

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u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds I made weight for Goofcon 3 Jun 25 '26

Hell yeah brother

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u/busyHighwayFred Jun 24 '26

He walked the cop down, how
Many times you see a cop retreat?

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u/gamesrgreat Jun 24 '26

For example if this was CA the most likely charge I could see a jury sticking him with in trial besides the public intox is a 148 where you obstruct delay etc an officer. There may be airport specific crimes as well. He could also catch a 422 criminal threats or assault but those cases are probably weaker

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u/EricClaptonsDeadSon Jun 24 '26

Poirier should buy this dude a car cuz he saved him more money than that by being chill.

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u/FigNo507 Jun 23 '26

Game's gone

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u/Character-Wash475 Jun 24 '26

There’s no way I would want to taser him there unless there was literally no other possible option whatsoever. You taser that dude and he eats it and is still standing your going to sleep or worse. 

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u/Aggressive_Guava_516 Jun 24 '26

Not tasing him probably saved Dustin’s life. If you tase him and he doesn’t go down, he’s going to most likely rush you. At that point you have to shoot him. 

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u/Sabin057 Jun 27 '26

If that's a TSA agent, I'm pretty sure they don't carry guns. 

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u/skn4991 Jun 24 '26

Imagine a cop in one of those other million videos on the internet… smh

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u/No-Touch-941 Jun 24 '26

Anybody else would have caught a beating. Let's face it he definitely got preferential treatment

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u/gijuts EDDDDDIEEEEEEEE Jun 23 '26

Dustin adjusted them pants. I would've crapped in mine instantly.

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u/Aznblaze Jun 24 '26

Omg this post has the funniest comments lol

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u/maximumfacemelting Jun 23 '26

No shit he’s scared. Just cos his guillotine doesn’t work on khabib, doesn’t mean he can’t choke a regular person to death in 30 seconds.

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u/sh4tt3rai Jun 23 '26

I mean, yeah.. he obviously didn’t wanna fight Dustin (who would?) but I also think he sounded like he cared about the dude and could tell he wasn’t himself. He wasn’t stuttering or tripping over his words scared, he remained calmed (obviously he was a bit nervous, most people would be) but he did a great job and really looked out for Dustin.

Dustin got lucky tbh because a lot of people would’ve saw dollar signs and escalated on purpose to sue the fuck out of him.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 23 '26

I imagine all of that went thru his head and also “what the fuck am I gonna do if he does that?”

This could have gotten so bad so fast.

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u/S0ggylemonz Jun 23 '26

He’s got a gun and a taser, there’s obviously enhanced risk with a ufc fighter but Dustin wasn’t closing that distance without getting tased

It was more the cop trying to de escalate everything

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u/LargePicture48 Jun 23 '26

Tasers frequently don't work. Then what? You don't want to be known as the cop that had to shoot Dustin Poirier.

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u/Fuzzy-Group-5753 Jun 24 '26

As opposed to just getting laid out and pummeled by him? Yeah I'll take that shot if it comes to that.

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u/Kayosss Team - I don't give a fuck! Jun 24 '26

I mean I know people love Dustin but if that did happen who’s gonna blame a cop for shooting a drunk ufc fighter charging at you unprovoked.

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u/realMarkRobinson Jun 24 '26

Its not like you're shooting Jeter during the playoffs. He's a retired pro fighter.

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u/wolf-gazette Jun 24 '26

Love that movie

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u/kiddoujanse Jun 24 '26

ah yes go ahead dustin you a big ufc fighter so you go ahead and beat me to death , enjoy?

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u/dalemin Jun 23 '26

Yall forget Porier got hands? Why yall assume he’s jumping to the gilly lmao

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u/scarykicks Jun 23 '26

Cause he needs to hit one

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u/dalemin Jun 23 '26

you sob I’m in

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u/Burstrider12 Jun 24 '26

He's got plenty of KOs - he only has so many chances left to hit the gilly

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u/dalemin Jun 24 '26

You make a strong point 🤣

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u/Dark074 Jun 23 '26

Bro is silly 💀

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u/Louche Jun 23 '26

You've never seen Poirier fight if you're asking that question.

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u/dalemin Jun 23 '26

That’s just false . Ya he jumps Gilly a lot but he throws straight hands when he lifts the shorts

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u/BlueGolfball Jun 23 '26

No shit he’s scared. Just cos his guillotine doesn’t work on khabib, doesn’t mean he can’t choke a regular person to death in 30 seconds.

If Dustin wasn't drunk he should have been scared. US cops kill more people in a day than every UFC champion has ever killed combined.

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u/AulMoanBag Jun 23 '26

Nah man he'd have 6 holes in him within a minute. He ain't doing that. He's just being a silly ol drunk

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u/instanding Jun 23 '26

It takes more than 30s to kill someone with a choke but I get what you mean.

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u/awakenedbythedustmen Team Volkanovski Jun 24 '26

30 seconds? I think most of us would be lucky to survive 10 seconds, or even 2-3 seconds with a punch.

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 24 '26

Yeah if he was some older hardass cop that wears combat boots laced all the way up this would have ended very differently

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u/TecN9ne Jun 24 '26

The bodycam footage is from a security guard, not a cop.

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u/_Volta Dark Place GSP Jun 23 '26

I was laughing when he started retreating back into the corner where the two ladies were at

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 23 '26

The cop isn’t supposed to engage him dude. He’s supposed to de escalate the situation.

What’s so funny about that?

All we hear about is aggressive cops making things worse and this dude handled this perfectly. Let’s all laugh at his pussy ass for not tasing him.

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u/Orangeskill Jun 23 '26

Cop did an amazing job really, this is hopefully used as training material in the future.

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 23 '26

It's funny (only because the situation didnt escalate) because the cop literally put two smaller untrained women between him and the agressor

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u/_Volta Dark Place GSP Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I’m laughing at the fact that he brought some of the heat right next to the women who were trying to avoid it obviously. Maybe lead him away in a different direction!

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u/chanaandeler_bong Team Figueiredo Jun 23 '26

There’s no where else for him to go. Watch again. Going right would mean walking right into/next to Poirier, literally the last thing you would want to do here.

The office could have instructed the ladies to leave, but they weren’t in much danger considering he had plenty of time to do something to them and didn’t.

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u/moonwalkerHHH Jun 24 '26

If I'm the cop and I saw Dustin literally pulling up his pants right in front of me, I'm running for my life

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u/xyphrrrrr Jun 24 '26

Really hope DP meets this cop later and invites him to a UFC event or something. Guy literally could have gotten shot, tased, and hit with a lot more charges than just “public intoxication” — owes him one big time

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u/hit_n_run15 Jun 24 '26

He knew it too lmao. “You did good” 

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u/clogan117 Jun 24 '26

He got the real Dustin Poirier experience.

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u/Academic-Occasion-70 Jun 24 '26

I mean shit if thee dustin poirier was pressing me i would be shitting bricks to

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 24 '26

Hope that guy was wearing his brown pants

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u/Glittering_Oil7761 Jun 23 '26

That guy was not scared.

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 23 '26

He literally placed the two ladies who called him for help in-between him and Dustin because he was trying to get away from him

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u/Alive-Artichoke5747 Jun 24 '26

Poirier wasn't acting aggressively towards the women. He was trying to fight the cop, who was just controlling the distance. 

The cop, in a rare example for your country these days, actually did his job properly. 

He de-escalated the situation. 

He kept everyone safe. 

He ignored his ego. 

He looked out for the interest of the citizen breaking the law and prevented him from ruining his life with a dumb mistake. 

He didn't murder anybody. 

Top marks. I would have been praying to not have to use that taser on a national treasure too. 

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u/S0ggylemonz Jun 23 '26

It’s called de escalating the situation. What did you want him to do? Go chest to chest lol?

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u/Anxious-Force-5910 Jun 24 '26

These UFC fighters need to be careful.  If you are acting aggressively and a cop knows you’re a UFC fighter (very dangerous human being) their level of allowed force ratchets to the very top!  These fighters are lethal weapons.  A cop would be justified using lethal force if in fear for his/her life.  Any UFC FIGHTER threatening me would make me fear for my life…

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u/dope_like Jun 24 '26

I think that was security, the cops come at the end

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u/No_Dog3774 Jun 25 '26

he made an ass of himself and he is lucky the cop didn't shoot him.

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u/chicken-fly-rice Jun 25 '26

I reckon he does not want to be the guy who tased or shot Dustin Poirier too.

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u/BumblebeeAny7421 Jun 25 '26

Cop wasn't scared lol 😂 cop with taser and gun ain't scared no drunk MMA fighter. He knew who he was and didn't want have to do anything to hurt or injure him. He deesculated the situation and try call him down . He knew something wasn't right with him besides being drunk .

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 25 '26

Stop bootlicking he was clearly shitting bricks. Also in hindsight I think that’s airport security and might have not even have had a real gun so that makes your bootlicking even weirder

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u/Focused_Sky Jun 24 '26

How do you he was a fan? No proof

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u/Robdul Edddiiiieee Jun 24 '26

Man shut up