I don't care about being noble. I just know it makes me uncomfortable to see a strong man like that hit a harmless girl like that. It's a gut reaction which is when I know it's wrong.
Joe Mixon
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I like to think that we can say the first thing in any situation is "de escalate!" Do not let any situation get to where people get bones broken. Anyone with half a brain can see that she was not going to hurt him. If he was in a football game he'd get ejected from the game for it. No you can't go around hitting people like she did. The proper course of action was for him not to go up to her table and instigate a confrontation. After she did hit him, he should of gotten away called the cops and she would be charged. But no, he had show her. He had to get even and THEN SOME. That was his only recourse. He could not have taken that slap and said, I could break your face for that but I won't. Nope she had it coming. yeah man YEAH!
Does the idea of not hitting a woman even in self defense only apply to the general public? What if she had hit a cop in uniform or off duty? Would everyone still be in an uproar over what happened? I see many say that women are different then men because generally speaking they are the weaker sex but I bet no one would say anything about a cop hitting her and breaking her jaw instead of Mixon. What if she was built like Ronda Rousey? Would there be an uproar then? I bet not. There are a lot of double standards in the eyes of the law concerning women. If a cop shows up to your house and your wife/gf says you hit here, chances are you are going to jail whether you did anything or not. Where do we draw the line, do men just have to let a woman continually hit him? When are we allowed to defend ourselves?
One thing for sure, we know the wife beaters in the Paddock now
Yes self defense will probably will work in court. Some disgusting attorney will say "his life was in danger" All he had to do was duck and pick her up and set her down.Yes though it would be different if she were in the boxing club. But she didn't put her guard up and start shuffling. She came at him with an open handed girl slap. He reacted like he was facing a much bigger threat imo.
You can't be that stupid. Taking a saying about poking the bear and literally making a comparison of humans to bears. The point, because you clearly missed it, don't start ****, won't be ****. Unless you are trying to be a veiled racist, don't see how you totally miss that point to make such a stupid statement, which wouldn't surprise me given the elitist tone of your replies.
She clearly was escalating the situation when she got in his face, and she assaulted and battered him first. When provoked, fight or flight instinct kicks in, and guess which one is the first instinct of someone that plays football...that's right, instinct was to calm the situation by fight. Was it the best way to handle the situation, no, but it doesn't mean she was a victim. She assumed the risk that **** may go down when she decided to throw the first attack.
So, because of her size and weight she is harmless. Got it. What if when slapping his face she clawed at his eyes, blinding him? Or reach into her purse and pull out something to stab him? Still harmless? You don't know how far she was willing to escalate because Mixon stopped the situation before it got worse.
No one died, and he had an ENTIRE YEAR taken away of his college career over ONE PUNCH. He has done his time for one mistake. He f***s up again, then you look at harsher punishments, but you don't turn your back on a kid because of one mistake. That's how career criminals are made.
I guess it is how you are raised. I thought football players were tough guys. Hell, Drew Barker took a punch...hahaha
did she reach into her purse? did she claw his eyes out? DId any of those things happen? My lord , you don't hit women like that. You just don't. The only case you do is if she has a gun or knife or something. If it's ronda rousey then she can be charged with using deadly force b/c She is a deadly weapon. You all ought to know better really. There is no justifying this.
Not that it makes his actions right, but remember we're talking about a guy who had just turned 18 the day before this happened. If you're expecting an 18 year old male in the heat of the moment after being hit and called a racial slur to act with this calm, cool, unemotional response that many of you are suggesting, you are absolutely kidding yourself about human nature.
No, because he took care of the situation before she had the chance. You don't know what the other person is capable of. You don't know what they are thinking. She was escalating, and who knows how far she would have kept going had she not been KTFO?
Someone comes at me and starts attacking, I am not assessing body size, doing metrics to figure out psi per punch, or trying to figure out what threat they pose. You come after me, I am assuming you want to hurt me. You want to hurt me, I am not going to give you that chance.
Here's a girl about the same size as her, is she no longer a threat if this had went down?
no I know about human nature
I didn't compare him to a bear. Is saying someone's a bear racist? My point is that no a bear would obviously maul her. But we are humans. We should restrain ourselves.
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I do appreciate your view and in a world of knights on white horses and damsels in distress, you would absolutely be correct. However we live in a different world where some females think its ok to use racial slurs and hit people and not expect reprisal. Welcome to reality baby.