Yea, I have a fight instinct as opposed to flight. I almost myself in trouble once for beating shit out of a walgreens loss prevention officer who thought I had stolen something (I didn't) and tried to detain me. I ended up walking away free, no charges, while that guy went to the hospital. But it was the logic above that could have gotten me into serious trouble.
Edit: Some context. I was browsing a busy Walgreens in downtown San Franciso, and saw that some Cadbury Easter Eggs were on sale for only 10 centz each. So I grabbed two of em' and waited in line. The line was super long, it would have taken like 15 minutes to check out...and for two items that cost less than a quarter. So I just tossed them in one of the nearby bins and walked out of the store. As I walk out of the store a 6ft 300lb fat dude that was dressed in baggy cloths, and wearing gold chains hopped in front of me and put his hand on my chest to prevent me from walking away, and started yelling...dude seriously looked like Heavy D.
It was only a split second reaction time, but it felt like a minute or so where in my head I quickly accessed the situation. This is person I don't know, he physcially assaulting me, and acting aggressive...I don't know why, but he looks like a thug. Is this someone I pissed off in the club the night before, did I accidentally step on his shoes just now and piss him off, is he racist crazy person, am I being robbed --all of these crazy things went through my head, none of which was anything close to "this is walgreens loss prevention."
So, being a trained college wrestler (and in the middle of my MMA career) I instinctually waxed off his arm and hit an arm drag takedown. This caused him to fall flat on his face, and it broke his glasses and busted his nose. He got up in a rage (and rightfully so) and came at me with all intents pointing to the fact that he wanted to kill me. So I beat him down...badly.
Two more guys (much smaller) dressed as thugs came out of the store to attack me - I thought they were his boys, so I ran away. I came back with the cops 10 minutes later, only to find out that they were all "plain clothes" loss prevention officers. They wanted to press charges, even after I proved to them that I didn't steal their fucking dime eggs. They claimed that a normal person wouldn't have reacted the way that I did. That I should have frozen, and awaited further instruction...
...I just said, well, you picked the wrong guy. Police sided with me, and asked if I wanted to press charged against them. I said no, and ended up leaving the store w/ a gift card.
This is what he looked like:
So you're saying Ahmaud Arbery was 100% in the right when he tried to defend himself against the men that ended up murdering him.
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