This clip has mega millions of views, 5 million on Snapchat and millions on Twitter from several accounts —
A young black man was filmed beating the crap out of an older man inside the just re-opened Macys at the Genesee Valley Center mall in Flint, Michigan.
This is Flint Township police, Michigan State Police-Flint post, and Genesee County sheriffs police.
The assault happened on on Monday or Tuesday. The camera caught the face of the perpetrator perfectly.
In the video that was filmed by the black man’s friend — he sneaks up behind the man and smacks in in the head.
The initial reporting on line claimed the older man allegedly randomly said the n-word to some muscular young man in Macy’s — other social media comments say it started because the younger man wasn’t wearing a mask, just like the Flint murder at the dollar store.
This is a brutal assault.
Isn’t it interesting that you rarely if ever see a burly white man beating the hell out of an unsuspecting older black man?
The New York Post reported:
The incident, posted on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, shows an unidentified white man wearing a mask and speaking on a cell phone inside a Macys department store at the Genesee Valley Center mall when a black man approaches him and punches him.
The white man, who is knocked to the ground by the punch, turns and asks, what are you doing that for?
I didnt touch you
Im sorry, he said, as he attempts to crawl away but is instead punched two more times.
The — looks like a Macy’s employee with black slacks and black shoes — he’s obviously not on his cell phone, as some comments claim.
It looks more like a random assault.
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If you are older and physically not up to it, then some sort of a weapon and learn how to use it effectively.The training is necessary. Most people don't seem to have any innate response to an ambush attack. The key is to respond immediately and effectively with directed violence. To do so requires recognizing an attack, and having the capacity to act quickly. If the attacker is naive and impulse-driven, a quick response may turn the tables to the degree the attacker flees. Even an attacker with training may be deterred by an unexpected violent response.
Of course, a victim with no situational awareness may never recover sufficiently to respond effectively. An attacker trained to use an attack to gain control over a person (e.g. police training) will be hard to deter and will persevere until achieving the objective. Back in 80s I was attacked by a security guard who thought I was a shoplifting suspect. I saw him coming and assumed he was after someone behind me, so I dodged and he ran into the wall. When I helped him up, he tried to put me in a hold but he was too stunned to complete it and fell down again. I called for help and we sorted it out, but I could see he was still fixated on me. He kept maneuvering to prevent my escape until we reviewed the security cam footage and he realized his target had already fled the store.
Hand to hand is the absolute last resort after everything else has failed.Living in NJ, a 1911 (or any other firearm) isnt an option outside of my home.
While working torward my Taekwondo black belt, sparring and self-defense were both regularly taught, so it wasnt just a sport. The black belt test itself was over 3 hours, and included 7 different breaking techniques, and multilple sparring rounds against two opponents simultaneously. In my Krav Maga training, I work on self-defense with fairly large, strong teenagers (I am 53), and for the most part, they are putting up plenty of resistance.
Im not saying I am invincible, but theres no way Id be rolling around on the floor saying Im sorry to that droopy-drawered punk, and he would definitely have been on the receiving end of some punches, kicks, and hopefully, a submission or choke hold.
I wholeheartedly agree that carrying is preferred to trying to use self defense. And situational awareness is the most important tool of all.
As for the BJJ .... while most mma BJJ fighters go to the ground, they don’t have to. Most of those guys can choke you out standing. I would avoid going to tge ground on the street no matter what. Most of these knockout gamers have multiple friends with them and there is almost always someone recording. If you go to the ground you are gonna grt stomped.