Hand to Hand – Page 16

Ear bitten off in street fight

A man is able to continue fighting despite having his ear bitten off, and in fact is dominating the fight when the video ends.

Maiming does not necessarily lead to incapacitation and may not discourage your opponent. It may in fact escalate their aggression and the level of force they consider using.

Blindsided, head stomped and spat on

Despite the victim’s backpedalling and attempt to prevent his opponents getting behind him, one fades to the rear until he is outside the victim’s vision. The victim loses track of this person, which is when the blind side attack occurs.

Lower lip bitten off in street fight

Two main things to note here:

Biting is possible at any time a grip is established and from any range and position, and it can happen very quickly;
Despite having about one third of his lower lip bitten off, the victim of the bite was willing to continue fighting. It was the biter who stepped back, put his palms up then walked away. Biting does not incapacitate and will at best discourage.

Aggressor knocked out by bystander then returns to attack victim

Any fight in a public space can be seen and judged by other people. There is always the potential for bystanders to intervene in any capacity – they may stop the fight by using physical restraint or attack someone involved when they perceive their behaviour in a negative way. Quite often, bystanders will actually prevent others from intervening so they can see how the fight unfolds.

In this case, a person intervenes to prevent what he saw as an unfair attack, then left too soon as the aggressor returned.

Failure to read threat, sucker punched and serious harm

Victim does not take situation seriously, does not appear to be fearful and stands in a vulnerable position before getting sucker punched and falling on a hard surface. This goes from verbal argument to assault to robbery to manslaughter within seconds.

Security guard uses choke hold to take down belligerent man

Woman knocked out by man despite every warning she needed to leave

Male was obviously extremely aggressive, taking an angled stance as he prepared to strike which the female failed to read. Male then actually attempted a sucker punch which missed and the female still failed to attempt escape, instead raising her fists to defend further punches.

She may have felt that she had a chance in defending herself, but more likely she felt that attempting escape would have the same outcome with the male chasing and beating her.