Additional thoughts
1. The woman was interviewed later and claimed it was her right to park in the parking space. From the information i have seen so far, i do not believe that she or her husband had a valid handicapped permit or were hansicapped. So to me this is wvidence of her belligerent and confrontational attitude which helps explain her belligerent actions in the store video.
2. Pushing a guy down obviously requires that the pusher gets within the victims zone of intimacy. Is there a term for a zone that applies when the emotionis anger, or is this it? Anyway. what would happen if this were in prison? The pusher seems obviously making a statement if bravado as if daring the victim to fight back and taking the foolish gamble that he probably wont.
3. Pushing anyone especially someone older is life threatening because an older person could be handicapped and a fall of any sort could out his life in danger. Imho The pusher should know this. Imho if not then it needs to be taught in school.
4. If the victim were a police officer and i were the ousher, i would expect the cop to pull a gun on me and possibly shoot me (so i would not do it in the first place).
5. If i replay in my mind the shooter being pushed to the ground but then oulling out a cell phone and trying to call 911, i think it would have veen reasonable for the guy to expect to be stomped hard by the 3 potential attackers.
6. I lived in florida briefly in the early 1970s. It seemed much more civil all around back then. Something seems to have changed for the worse in society since then.
7. I have experienced a similar altercation in which i was pushed at a gas station. The pusher was a young white guy. Maybe race was involved in this incident but i do not recall reading positive evidence for that conclusion so far.
8. Just because the woman temporarily backs off after getting in the shooters face does not imply she would not ever come back and do worse. To me that was an an act that supported aggression by her “man.” Imho one sees a lot of this type of behavior leading to worse in the numerous mcdonalds beatdown videos online.
1. Yes she did. Did you also notice the shooter checked the rear license plate? I believe he was checking for a handicapped plate. There are longer videos that show this.
2. I just know about it as personal space, danger zone, encroachment zone. It is described in the wikipedia under the study of Proxemics and in Neuropsychology. It’s very complicated and high level brain processing as all factors are considered (situation awareness) where people can adapt reactions (purposely or not). When somebody enters your personal space the fight or flight decision making kicks in. It’s not just anybody as we allow certain distance for different types of encounters like close friend, wife, lover et al.
In prison, personal space would be adjusted due to constant close proximity with others. Same thing happens in large cities.
The pusher was looking for a fight. It’s clear as the situation evolves. The wife gets out of the car as the Husband gets closer. Was anything said between the Husband and wife? I’ll tell you right now, I do not trust black women. Their mouthy when grouped, they manipulate ‘their man’, and his baser instincts. And for the most part I find they don’t like white people and are the worst as they enter late teens and mellow a tad as they enter adulthood.
3. I understand. I’m old and in poor health. I If I fall or am pushed down, I cannot get up on my own.
Police are different. At the first notion of trouble they will be in your face and trying to control you. Had the pusher pushed a cop he would have been drawn on and 1/2 a clip put into his chest.