My advice is to simply run over them. Turn your body into a high velocity mass and smash the closest, break what the other uses to stand on and grab things with.
Being a 260# black belt helps ;)
Personally, I would have done the same thing. Consider that the two young women might have been one of your or my daughters.
The fortunate thing for the “defenders” was that SF is a gun free zone or the event might have turned out quite different.
My advice is to simply run over them. Turn your body into a high velocity mass and smash the closest, break what the other uses to stand on and grab things with.
Being a 260# black belt helps ;)
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In that case, I would disarm the situation by being hilariously entertaining as, after my frightening charge, I would bounce away like a ping-pong ball off a brick wall.
:-)
Good offense is always an option. Not a black belt, but "dabbled" in shorin su ryu about 40 years ago. Disciplined and formal mode of street fighting - break what comes at you and rip things off (ears/nose, etc.) as necessary. As I age, I relay more on my manufactured weapons even though I try to stay in shape.