My instinct would have caused me to reach for her flailing arm. You know, to protect myself from her arm, which she was swinging wildly. Her face wasn't the part of her body that was attempting to slap me, I wouldn't have reached my arm out to deck her in her face. I would have reached my arm out to grab her arm, the arm that was hitting my head.
You were just backhanded, are facing away from the attacker, and see her face before anything else as you turn around.
What are the chances you are going to catch that arm before she backhands you again or pokes your eye out?
Better yet, what are the chances you actually paid attention to the video?
He would have had to drop her to turn around to get to her swinging arm with his free arm, or waited for her to swing a THIRD time and hope to catch her arm if it passed in front of him.
Seriously, did you even pay attention to the video? Or are you just here for the band wagon?
She was attacking someone from behind and full on backhanded him. You need to watch the video again.
You don't try to apprehend someone is seats in a crowd like that. It is just stupid to think that is an option. The cops would be surrounded by unruly drunks with no one watching their backs.
Why should they have to take all the risk if they are not the unruly drunk randomly backhanding people?
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u/TheHaleStorm Nov 05 '17
And how would you have handled this situation so much better?
Wait for her to draw blood to react? Get a finger in a cops eye? Fish hook him?
And since you are really trying to speak with authority, don't skimp on the detail.