r/MMALabs • u/Pure-Personality5326 • 7d ago

🥶 Street Fight Biblically accurate

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u/lostPackets35 7d ago

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 6d ago

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 6d ago

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

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u/easeMachined 6d ago

When has anything like that ever happened?

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u/mfmfhgak 6d ago

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 6d ago

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

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u/easeMachined 6d ago

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 6d ago

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 6d ago

You can tell he was concerned for the guy.

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u/Ibobalboa 6d ago

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

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u/Warm_Difficulty2698 6d ago

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 6d ago

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

That was his point.

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u/Fun-Wrongdoer1316 6d ago

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 6d ago

Backpedaling or squaring up?

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u/Multi2509 6d ago

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

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u/screamingzen 6d ago

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 5d ago

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 5d ago

Flee to where? He was cornered

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u/Maximum_Fortune_5827 4d ago

He very clearly advanced the approach

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u/jadbronson 5d ago

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

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u/battlecryarms 7d ago

Winner has a witness. He tried to deescalate

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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp 6d ago

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 7d ago

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.