Wife mugged in parking lot in 1993. Pushed to ground and then foot in chest to pull purse away.
Wife suffered hair-line fracture of neck vertebrae. Medical problems happened years later with 2 fusion surgeries after disc degradation. I am saying that push to pavement is bad trauma and you don’t know the extent of injuries. I take the push as life threatening.
I agree, my Navy Veteran friend was shoved to the ground in a similar fashion as White Guy by a hotel burglar escaping his room in Honolulu in 1995. Injuries ended his career in Merchant Marine, and I accompanied him to his last repair surgery in April of this year.