Posted on 07/11/2011 7:03:16 AM PDT by Blueflag
Here we go again ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Minneapolis mother is looking for the public’s help in finding a mob of teenage girls that she says assaulted her family.
The attack happened Thursday afternoon inside Folwell Park on Minneapolis’ north side. (more in article, found on Drudge)
hear! hear! I agree with you 100%
Whites v/s blacks — in terms of viciousness? I don’t think it comes down to race, but to family breeding and culture.
Sanford hard working? I'm a die-hard fan of the series and hard working is the last thing he is. :)
There’s no leader, and goading actions like dares work against you to provoke the mob further. You want to do everything to de-escalate the pack emotions of the situation, through stance, posture, eye-contact, and most importantly voice.
What the Dog Whisperer and see how he stands, moves and presents himself to dogs acting up.
A 90 pound great grandmother can control most (not all) such situations if she keeps her wits.
The mob feeds off your energy. Just like Cesar Milan explains it for dogs and dog packs. A calm assertive, stance will usually cause the mob to move on.
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"The First Lady slides into her spot alongside other G-20 spouses
before a group photo at the Royal Opera House [London, 2009]."
Source: Time Magazine (Time.com):
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1889051_1865162,00.html
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Michelle Obama at the 2009 G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, USA
Source:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mitchelles-gifts-to-g20-spouses-porcelain/521488/
i did not realise there would be no leader.
TKD has some rather flashy kicks, many of them to the head, and punches that are are stylized. As for the TKD forms, those poomsae (basically equivalent to kata in Karate) have a lot of meaning and significance (before I left traditional martial arts and got involved in reality-based self-defense and Krav Maga, I used to be in Shotokan Karate at ni-dan level - 2nd degree black belt), but unfortunately most people only learn the forms and not the reason behind those forms. For instance, at first dan in Karate (sho-dan, or the first black belt ...which is where you really start to learn about the art) you go through something called Kata Bunkai ...where you are shown the reason behind the kata movements. However, most dojos (karate) and dojangs (TKD) are what is known as 'McDojos' where you see kids at age 15 with black belts. They basically sell belts.
However, the biggest problem with TKD is that it is a sparring martial art ...they are a lot of competitions that use the point-sparring system (it is even in the olympics), which is extremely different from a reality-based self-defense system like Krav Maga, Kapap and Haganah (all 3 of which are taught to the Israeli armed forces). If you look at TKD and compare it with Kapap or Krav Maga, the TKD will look far more pretty. However the krav maga moves will be far more brutal. Finally, a lock of the blocks taught in TKD simply do not work ...they came from Karate (the founders of TKD were all Koreans who had learned Karate, primarily Shotokan, during the Japanese occupation of WW2 ...virtually all indigenous Korean martial arts were exterminated by the Japanese, and TKD was formed after the war when the Koreans who had started various martial arts schools decided to combine them into TKD ....some TKD forms, especially ITF, are actually almost identical to Shotokan Karate forms ...only with a focus on kicks). Those blocks were made to be used when the wearer has armor (e.g. a Samurai who has had his main weapon ...maybe his sword -katana, yari-spear, or naginata-halberd taken away from him), and thus the blocks would have worked. However, give a 9 year old girl a permanent marker, and tell her to come towards you and try to 'cut' you. She will be flailing, and it will be impossible to block if you use those karate/TKD style blocks. Furthermore, in a real knife 'fight' (knife fights only happen in movies ....in real life it is knife cutting) you will not even see the knife until you have been stabbed several times by the guy who 'only wanted to talk to you.'
Anyways, I am proud of what your daughter did. However I think it was more of a function of her being a natural fighter, keeping her senses when many people would lose theirs, and acting rather than freezing. Amazing girl. However, maybe she should look into some of the more reality-based self-defense programs (e.g. Krav Maga), which would be great supplements to having a gun.
I could have sworn I thought she was from the Twin Peaks area??? ;-)
I liked that article you linked. When beset by a mob, make an attempt to distract and personalize-in a friendly way. The example they give is asking for the time. I might ask for a cigarette even if I don’t smoke. A distracting tactic might be to suddenly look off into one direction and say: “Woah, is that a [fire, cop car, ambulance, hot chick].”
This takes energy away from the mob, defocuses it, humanizes you to them.
However, you don’t want to get into any sort of interaction with them, a conversation can turn against you. Your goal is to walk away calmly.
BTW, I meant to type “Watch the Dog Whisperer”.
Nearly all the advice Cesar about dogs gives is applicable to human mobs and gangs. Except that one thing: the pack leader. Mobs don’t have a strong pack leader.
My best lessons in that regard, the dynamics of young teen groups attacking passers by, I learned in watching jays and crows take on hawks and owls. They have no leader, but they do coordinate to harass. I observed the same “dance” in watching the videos of the DC Metro attacks, and also ones I’ve seen in person.
might you share some of your gang typology with us?
Years ago, I was beset by a gang of pre-pubescent black
boys with sticks, managed to extricate myself from them.
I suspect someone taught them some unofficial lessons,
bc I didn’t see or hear of them again. This was in broad
daylight BTW. A security guard of my acquaintance told
me “not to worry about them” which proved to be true, but
I could have been seriously injured in the short run.
From the article (absolutely incredible!) ...
“Twiet’s 15-year-old suffered a swollen nose and a busted blood vessel in her eye. Her four year old has a bruise on her leg and a contusion on her head.
Twiet, however, does not want to see the teenagers that she says assaulted her family behind bars. She wants an apology.
She also wants the young ladies to perform community service, so they can learn to help others, instead of hurt them.”
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/07/09/mother-teenage-girl-mob-attacked-my-family/
the cure: property qualifications. Let’s all take a guess
at an appropriate minimum.
Fascinating — and thank you. Your advice could save my or my loved one’s life one day.
The “mockingbird” delusion. [To Kill A Mockingbird]
It’s real, it’s nearly ineradicable.
Wouldn’t that be “OMB”?
the cure: property qualifications. Let’s all take a guess
at an appropriate minimum.
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Sounds good.
OK, for starters how about real or personal property with a minimum market value of 50K, proper insurance coverages in place, AND with no payments in arrears?
Talk about acting white.......
long, long ago I heard that “want a cigarette” was a
standard police inquiry, e.g. to someone sitting down
in some odd location, bc it was non-escalatory [That’s
not the right word, it was something else] I assume NYPD
can’t ask that any more.
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