Yes I agree 100 percent. Hitting a woman with a chair is a cowardly act. I get the anger. But that crossed the line. On another note those white guys who jumped the dock worker should be charged with a hate crime and should be also charged with inciting a riot. ****ing dumb racists.
It's not even that he hit a woman, he hit someone who was doing nothing. The woman was on the ground, sitting in a defenseless position. Nothing we saw on tape would even indicate she had done something to provoke retaliation, but even if she did OFF camera, as far as he was concerned she was just a white woman sitting on the ground. The most egregious act in the whole video.
I agree with everything you said but the last sentence. I think jumping the worker was the most egregious act. Also expect a huge lawsuit against the ferry company as-well unfortunately since their employees were involved in the brawl. But the owners of that small boat should lose everything as they started a riot.
The two white guys were obviously wrong and deserved a whooping, but at no time did they do anything that could reasonably have killed someone or caused permanent brain damage. What they did is normal trashy behavior that you see constantly on twittery fight vids. Stupid people causing a ruckus and getting beat for it. The guy who hit that woman could have (might have, haven't heard anything) killed her or caused permanent brain damage. He took a metal weapon and smashed it over an unsuspecting person's skull. Just the scope of the consequences of what he did outweighs what anyone else on the video did. It's not mitigating what the two (presumably) racist a-holes did.
There was at least four guys (not two) that attacked the worker. And yes people have died from a punch to the head or breaking their neck. It was not stupid people causing a ruckus nor was it normal behaviour. Jumping and sucker punching a person is not normal behaviour. I am as equally pissed at both incidents.
Dude went WWE with the metal chair on the little old lady. Are we sure this wasn't scripted? Seriously though what a mess. WTF is wrong with people. Based on my lake/boating experience... a bunch of people on a pontoon boat usually involve copious amounts of alcohol. Not that it excuses the attack at all, but I'd be willing to bet they probably weren't sober when they decided to jump the worker on the dock. Drunk - 95% likely Racists - 50/50 Idiots - 100% confirmed
Thought there were only two white guys? Maybe confusing the beginning and the end of the video. Also want to be clear, I didn't say it was normal behavior, I said it was normal twitter fight video behavior. If you are immersed in the twitterverse you see people share videos of fights all the time. And yes, people have died from a punch but it's not reasonable to say that someone punching someone is going to kill or do permanent brain damage. Can they? Yes, but it's extremely unlikely. Someone smashing a metal chair over the top of someones head could reasonably kill or permanently damage them.
By the way, you were right. It was more than two who physically engaged the first black dude. Forgot all about a part of that video there's so much chaos. Looks like two white guys start it, a white woman is there trying to break it up and then a gaggle of more white dudes rush in with at least one hitting the black dude. Not clear what the rest of the white guys were doing as they aren't on camera the whole time.
Of course you can. And when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock he could have fallen backwards and his head and died. But that's not a reasonable outcome and we'd all agree that it would have been a more EGREGIOUS act by him had he take like a baseball bat and his Chris Rock in the head with it.
The wack on the head with a chair should be a violent felony charge absolutely. Uncalled for. But that I still think is less egregious as it was in a moment of rage after instigation from the party the woman was part of attacking a security guy doing his job. The two white guys ganging up on the security guard was an act of violence due to privilege(believing they have a right to follow their own rules), the chair attack was due to an angry response to seeing that and not controlling that rage.
Those chairs are too woke! As annoying as the old white lady could have been she didn't deserve to be whacked like the Ultimate Warrior with a chair.
It's not unreasonable for someone to die or get seriously injured from being jumped by 4 dudes. I just don't want us to paint jumping someone as something that can't reasonably cause serious injury.
I'm not talking about motivation though, only about the potential outcome. You're also projecting motives onto the white guys that we don't know. They could have been drunk and angry, the guard could have said something to them to enrage them. Them being drunk and enraged wouldn't be an excuse any more than it is for the dude who hit the woman sitting on the ground doing nothing.
Motivations are clear in the sense one was a response and one was an instigator. Again wack on the head of a defenseless lady on the ground with a chair with that violent of a force should be handled with a violent felony charge. I'm just saying that attack was from an already hyper elevated state and the instigators weren't in that hyper elevated state when they ganged up on the guard.
Bro, if the video was of a black criminal attacking a cop and then another cop running in all hyped up and hitting the black dude's gf who was sitting on the curb with a night stick you wouldn't be defending his hyper elevated state. Give me a break. Nobody is defending the white guys. Like I said, they earned what they got.
Debatable. Two guys or a group of people jumping an overweight/obese security guard could have resulted in serious Injury and even death. Don't downplay it as normal trashy behavior, it's just as bad if not worse than the dude swinging a chair at the lady bc they started the whole entire fight.
