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[and then after another 2 seconds he punches Jackson once. *NOW* he looks pissed off all of a sudden.]

Why not a radical change of facial expression at the time of the "balling"?

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I didn't mean to imply that he was only looking angry after he threw the punch. As I mentioned, you can't see his face at all just before/during the throwing of the punch. You can only see his face again immediately after the punch, as the camera pulls back a bit.

What I was trying to say is that he wasn't looking ticked off in the minute leading up to the punch -- everything was pretty peaceful. It's only when the punch is thrown that he's suddenly obviously upset about something.

If no face to see, wouldn't there be some kind of flinch? The Man claims not just that he was groped, but that his plums were squeezed.

If no flinch, I think it at least as likely that he looked po'ed because the boy said something that got his goat. You would flinch at a sudden "private" pain, but not at an insult.

If it was a grab short of hurting, I would expect the punch to be to the funny bone in his arm -- not to his head.