When you are pushed backwards, it’s hard to recover. He was shoved pretty good...The cop was NOT Gentle Ben. He should have stopped immediately.
Nonsense, I’m a girl and my brother gave me a military shove like that once when he was losing an argument over a matter where he was abusing his older sibling privileges - and while surprising [especially if it comes from your heretofore harmless brother], it just sets you on your backside where the weight of your fall is evenly distributed.
And no, he’s not an abusive person, he was simply trained to react to someone making a movement towards his chest. I had pointed my finger and was about to poke him there as a physical way of saying the discussion was over, and his reaction was to keep me out of his personal space.
As it happens, you’ll get a similar response from a parrot, especially a macaw, even the friendliest one, if you make the same move and get near their breast area. We used to have one heck of a time in our pet store keeping people who don’t read signs and are ignorant of bird behavior from making moves like that towards the big birds.
Then there were the types who did it anyway, stuck their finger in the bird’s face or chest while the bird was on its perch and threatened to sue us after getting nailed... but we never had a single case of a bird leaving its perch or play area in order to go bite anyone.
What we have here is a case where every protester who gets hurt is getting hurt by either directly targeting other people or property belonging to other people, or by deliberately attempting to block the movement of others. I’d call that systemic stupidity.
Martin Gugino launched himself backwards with his legs in a move that is worthy of European soccer faking a penalty.