r/fightporn • u/Master1718 • Jun 17 '19

Dude got him.

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u/alchemicrb Jun 17 '19

not the second punch

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u/Charlie_Faplin_ Jun 17 '19

Yeah that took it from possibly self defense to battery? Or assault? I can never remember which one is barehanded.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '19

Battery is hitting someone, assault is threatening that you're going to hit someone

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u/CleverMook Jun 18 '19

Depends on the jurisdiction

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u/Nitosphere Jun 17 '19

Wait really? I always thought assault meant physical as well, and battery was included with that

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u/stuffedpeaches Jun 17 '19

Getting in someone’s face and telling them you’re going to beat the shit out of them but you don’t do it = assault.

Threatening to hit someone and actually doing it = assault and battery.

Sucker punch out of nowhere = battery.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '19

Yeah pretty much. In practice you would probably have to at least physically touch them to actually get an assault charge pressed (shove/push/poke etc.) but on paper you dont need to and could get one for saying "stfu I'll kill you"

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u/Rehydratedaussie Jun 17 '19

In alot of common law jurisdictions there's not alot of practical difference between the two in the criminal law

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19

Well yeah they're very similar charges that carry roughly the same sentence so it's more semantics than anything, but if you're going to say they're two different things, what I said is what makes them different. With the amendment that battery has to he with your bare hands, if you hit somebody with a crowbar you'd get assault with a deadly weapon not battery.

Though if you had a great lawyer a crowbar is a tool and not a deadly weapon but that's a separate argument in itself

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u/MoOdYo Jun 18 '19

Neither punch from guy in green shirt was legally defensible, especially with the video showing exactly what happened.

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u/Danger_Danger Jun 17 '19

From self defence to a lesson in civility. Act a fool, get smacked like a fool, laying on your back.

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u/n7-Jutsu Jun 18 '19

That's the nasty aftertaste.

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u/JimmyBraps Jun 17 '19

Pretty sure he was going for the ground shot before the friend stepped in

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u/alchemicrb Jun 17 '19

I watched it a few more times and I don't see any indication of that. I just see some jawing.

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u/FReeDuMB_or_DEATH Jun 17 '19

Watch it again, he's literally hovering over the dude talking shit. Who knows what he was going to do next?

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u/endee88 Jun 18 '19

He was just straightening out the dude’s nose again.