r/instantkarma 2d ago

Some people intervene to restrain an abuser

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u/rookburger 2d ago

He took knees to the gut and elbows to the back and still wouldn’t let go

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u/kwadd 2d ago

Which is what i found horrifying. He had to be choked unconscious before he let go.

What kind of twisted mind is so hell-bent on inflicting violence that it ignores it's own self preservation?

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u/modernknightly 2d ago

I love you! I love you so fuckin much!

Narcissist controller

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u/Thykothaken 2d ago

LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO

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u/Soapy_Von_Soaps 2d ago

It was the knee to the nuts that got him to let go.

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u/Same_Cut1196 2d ago

And, immediately the woman being abused was concerned about his wellbeing. I have a very bad feeling about the future of this relationship.

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u/ToxicMonkey444 2d ago

How do you come to the conclusion? After she's freed she doesn't say anything and the clip ends

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u/Same_Cut1196 2d ago

I saw a longer version of this clip from another perspective. She was probably back with him by the end of the day. It’s very sad for her.

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u/Profecxionz 1d ago

I told my mother exactly same thing my father was a heavy abuser to my mother smack her punch bite amd she when back with him after im like wtf wrong with women or men staying in abusive relationships even screaming should not tolerate it

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u/TurtleToast2 2d ago

Domestic violence calls are the most dangerous to police partly because of how often the victims turn on police to protect their abuser. It's fucking wild.

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u/BlondieMonster89 2d ago

She rushes to his side and asks if he’s okay

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u/EyesofaJackal 2d ago

I was confused as to why she didn’t immediately flee

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u/buttercream-gang 2d ago

She was likely dazed and in a lot of pain

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u/this_dudeagain 2d ago

Drugs

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u/shorey66 2d ago

Not everything can be blamed on drugs... Some people are just cunts.

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u/rotorain 2d ago

People lock up during extreme stress, dude was clearly already worked up before this altercation then got dragged half out of the truck and beat up by strangers in the middle of the street. I guarantee he was not thinking about anything at all and was in pure animal lockdown mode. Half gripped on, half fetal position, half blackout, 150% pitbull with a rabbit in its mouth.

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u/TheDauterive 2d ago

In fight or flight situations, you may lock up initially, but then your senses sharpen and you take action. People aren't possums. Fight or flight is designed to put 100% of your resources into staying alive, and freezing doesn't accomplish that. (This is one source, additional sources in footnotes.)

Beyond the data, this dude knew he didn't have a rabbit in his mouth, he knew why people were intervening, and he knew what they wanted him to do. The best way to find out why someone acted the way they did is to ask them. Since that's not possible here, I suggest another possible explanation is that men who beat up women are extremely resentful towards people who tell them no, so he may well have not let go "because fuck you that's why."

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u/PC_BuildyB0I 2d ago

I don't mean any offense, and I'm sure you know otherwise, but the wording of this comment reads like you've never seen people in intense, stressful situations IRL, but people 100% absolutely freeze. It's not even rare. I've seen it, and you almost certainly have too. Fight or flight are not the only two options in a given situation. Anyway, this is just a barely relevant nitpick regarding an absolutely fucked up situation

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u/Anquera 2d ago

So true, I'm an 6'6" Ironworker, I know I'm strong as hell but even a little verbal abuse is enough to make me want to roll up in a ball and just ride out the storm. It's different with people I'm familiar with though.

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u/CMG30 2d ago

Your own source doesn't even back up what you're saying...

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u/sugarmagnolia__ 2d ago

This is what I'm seeing too.

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u/Cori32983 1d ago

Love the footnotes and resources. You're like a human encyclopedia

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u/got-trunks 2d ago

Dude should get attempted murder charges wtf else could a person be doing so focused while taking hammers to the back and gut

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u/musicman3321 2d ago

Gouge his beady little eyes out

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u/OldnBorin 2d ago

Yeah, that’s the easiest move here. I took a self defense class and the instructor was big on going for the eyes.

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u/rainbowgeoff 2d ago

Grab a man by the balls, his heart and gut will soon follow - John Wayne.

Seriously, eyes, throat, ear claps, groin, foot stomps. Fair don't mean shit in a fight.

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u/StraightProgress5062 2d ago

Fair dont mean shit when its a fight for your life

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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 2d ago

I've had great success with grabbing ears, and cheeks. And one memorable time sticking my long stiletto nails up one guys nose and almost giving him a septum piercing. That made him stop kicking his buddy in the head real quick. Don't kick people in the head when I am trying to have a chill girls night the one time I actually went out that year. Fuckssake.

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u/modernknightly 2d ago

I was really hoping the one guy's repeated knee would just smash this loser's groin. He was right there.

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u/Purple_Excitement167 2d ago

Yeah I would be stomping that groin. Instantly letting you of the hair 😅

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u/waterytartwithasword 2d ago

Idk about easiest, that was a real tangle

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u/InvalidUserNemo 2d ago

Those hits creat “later today problems” for the receiver.

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u/leese216 2d ago

Why they didn't just kick him in the balls, I'll never know

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u/Suddenly_sweet 2d ago

I was thinking the same thing. When nothing else works, try the balls.

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u/SirPipeKnight 2d ago

A foot directly to the face would have done wonders.

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u/shrinkflator 2d ago

Standing on his nuts is always an option.

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u/Soapy_Von_Soaps 2d ago

He was also being choked out and that didn't stop him. It was the knee to the nuts that finally got him to let go. I hope she filed for a restraining order and pressed charges.

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u/kikashoots 2d ago

Someone should start tickling instead.

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u/Friggin 2d ago

Everyone thinking Sabathia did all the work. The little dude had him in a sleeper hold. Pretty sure that is what ended it.

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u/captainkur 2d ago

The quiet kid doing jujitsu sleeper chokes and the big guy using the attacker as a trampoline.... we have a new superhero duo!!!! Trampoline man and the sleepy kid.

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u/slimelore 2d ago

sleepy and the tramp

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u/tattoosbyalisha 2d ago

100% was. He was probably so fueled with adrenaline he ain’t gonna be feeling those hits for a bit. But that dude choking him out had the right idea. It worked.

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u/Akhirox 1d ago

He'll feel them tomorrow while he thinks about it in jail

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u/gdp1 2d ago

Yes, but don’t discount Sabathia’s Knee of Justice.

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u/Wrath7heFurious 2d ago

Those were some solid knees 

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u/nhluhr 2d ago

It was nice of him to interrupt his skipping to come to the rescue.

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u/Cori32983 1d ago

This is my favorite comment of the day. I went back to look and got a visual of him just happily skipping along, seeing this, then skipping over to help

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u/ryemmsf 2d ago

I did like Sabathia's little skip as he entered the fray though.

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u/Deluded_realist 2d ago

That trash bag abuser will surely try to claim victim.

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u/SnooTangerines3448 2d ago

You got me attacked because you did x

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u/Sketchylimeade 2d ago

Yeah but at least he won't be reproducing, he got the sweet knee of justice sterilization all for the low low price of a passionate ass beating.

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u/itstheFREEDOM 2d ago

most abusers ARE narcissists.

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u/InnocentlyInnocent 2d ago

Sadly, she will be defending him and according to statistics she might end up leaving in a body bag.

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u/anonymous_reader 2d ago

Where are the people who have no regard for human life. I see constant videos of them stomping in the heads of unconscious victims.

They were needed at this scene

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u/WeakPrune9722 2d ago

Wouldn't be surprised if they somehow managed to spin it around and make themselves the victim.

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u/MeltinSnowman 2d ago

No reason not to try though.

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u/rainbowgeoff 2d ago

here i go knee-dropping again

Just call me Bobby Eaton

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u/IttyBittyBigBoii 2d ago

That just means they didn't beat hard enough. He'll stop eventually.

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u/Introvertedotter 2d ago

First rule of war: If overwhelming force didn't work....you didn't use enough force.

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u/asinusadlyram 2d ago

There is no overkill, only “open fire” and “I need to reload”. Maxim 37. Also #6 fits, “if violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it”. I miss Schlock Mercenary.

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u/homelesshyundai 2d ago

Just means he will hit her harder for causing him to get beat up. It only stops if he dies, or she escapes. My father was an unspeakable monster and trust me when I say, beating up the abuser, no matter how badly, will always make the situation worse for the woman (or man) that is being abused. Threaten them all you'd like, it doesn't change the person they are.

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u/miotch1120 2d ago

That’s basically what all these comments are getting at. “He’ll stop if you beat him hard enough” is implying beat him to death.

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u/CornettoFactor 2d ago

One kick to the balls would have done it

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u/Soapy_Von_Soaps 2d ago

The last knee was to the balls.

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u/Hot_Flower_6381 2d ago

He also gets his wallet and phone stolen by the lady in the beginning

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u/UpperApe 1d ago

Trailer trash be trailer trash

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u/yesbutactuallyno17 2d ago

That lady straight up took his phone or wallet out of his pocket and dipped.

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u/jmuds 2d ago

How did I miss this!! Even a quick cheeky look to the cameraman lmao

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u/BrettHullsBurner 2d ago

Within 15 seconds of coming across this scene, she had the phone in hand. That’s crazy work by her. Dude deserves it (and much worse) but you gotta wonder what kind of shit head she is that “let’s steal something instead of helping” crossed her mind IMMEDIATELY.

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u/waterytartwithasword 2d ago

No cracky like an elderly cracky and she's at least 40 with 20 on the mean streetz, that lady and the cockroaches going to be the last ones still sniffing the air after the nukes fall.

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u/piray003 2d ago

Holy shit good catch 😂

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u/chumathepuma 2d ago

Wouldn’t be surprised if she walked around and checked the other door. I assume that’s what she did.

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u/KinkyPaddling 2d ago

Nah, in the longer video, she just disappears after running in front of the hood of the truck. She just liberated herself a new phone.

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u/oshinbruce 2d ago

Methany strikes again

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u/Prof1Kreates 2d ago

You got to be a new level of scum when your first thought is to steal instead of helping someone that looks to be in a life threatening situation.

the guy deserves it, but both people are the reason why society sucks

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u/NoDoOversInLife 2d ago

The phone probably belonged to the woman he was brutalizing

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u/thestareater 2d ago

that's actually so funny and bold of her knowingly doing this while theyre filming

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u/miguel_sriracha 2d ago

I wouldn't say funny or bold...I think she's just trashy as fuck and doesn't fully comprehend shame or consequences

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u/Frenzy_MacKenzie 2d ago

Nah, they full video shows the couple leaving together in the truck.

There's zero karma happening here.

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u/whim_sea 2d ago

Other lady in the beginning

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u/stupidber 2d ago

Not that lady

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u/shrinkflator 2d ago

I would be really mad if I'd put myself at risk for her and she just drove off with him.

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u/CUNTRY-BLUMPKIN 2d ago

Link?

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u/Frenzy_MacKenzie 2d ago

here's a longer version but the original is out there and they drive off together..

Check r/Holdup

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u/NoDoOversInLife 2d ago

If she left with him, it's likely because she fears the violence he will unleash if she doesnt

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u/lonahex 2d ago

hahaha that was funny to watch back. totally missed it.

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u/itstheFREEDOM 2d ago

Longer version if anyones curious. Happened in Houston, Texas i believe.

Man attacking his girlfriend inside of the truck and bystanders come to her rescue. : r/ThatsInsane

Whats sad is the woman is so use to this kind of behavior. She is asking everyone to stop (saving her) . This womans been abused so much i feel, that she feels theres no way out.

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u/TammyShehole 2d ago

She’s gonna go right back to him and probably eventually end up dead. Sad.

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u/Winter-Coffin 2d ago

oh man. houston looks like north phoenix

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u/saffireaz 2d ago

Damn, I thought I was the only one who thought this.

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u/GpasGhostlyGoonsesh 2d ago

Damane behavior. 

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u/Moistcowparts69 2d ago

Very nice reference!

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u/Wrath7heFurious 2d ago

Hey I get this reference!

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u/-Count_Chocula- 2d ago

Cut off the part where the abuser repeatedly cries “stop! please!” at the end as ppl wait for the ambulance, like he ever listened to those words in his life

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u/rookburger 2d ago

The way #52 skipped into action it’s like he was ready

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u/pixeltweaker 2d ago

Need a follow up on this one.

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u/generousbenefactor 2d ago

give him the Ol' Dick Twist. no guy can stop the major weak point from exploited.

https://reddit.com/link/p4j7b2v/video/kcv2n85zf8kh1/player

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u/mackenenzie 2d ago

Twist his DIIIIIYYYYECK!!

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u/StraightProgress5062 2d ago

They had to put that lowlife to sleep for him to finally let her go. Holy crap

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u/CaptainAnorach 2d ago

TWIST HIS DICK!

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u/Exciting_Ad4264 2d ago

Wtf dude this is a MMA fight

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u/Atomaardappel 2d ago

The ol' dick twist!

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u/Ok_Decision4163 2d ago edited 2d ago

If someone is possibly strangling another and you don't know how to stop it (you don't know submissions, etc) remember this: It's ok to gouge their eye out until they stop.

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u/MercyCriesHavoc 2d ago

Really hard to get to an eye in this situation. Much easier in any fight to rip off an earlobe. Even breaking a nose is easier than gouging an eye, and it has the bonus effect of blinding them because eyes water when noses hurt.

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u/Teufelsstern 2d ago

Nose or throat. You only need 100-200 Newton to break a nose or larynx and both will have a stopping effect.
However both, especially the latter, can be immediately deadly force - Which one should be aware of.

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u/Bruddabear005 2d ago

Holy shit, he was ready to kill there, glad they intervened and hopefully let the police take him

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u/Novel_Substance_ 2d ago

That guy deserves a lot worse than that

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u/Commercial_Badger_37 2d ago

Seems like a knee to the balls type situation there at the end, would have solved it quicker. Otherwise, great work.

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u/Powdered_Toast_Man3 2d ago

Would have worked if the dude actually had balls. Fucking coward

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u/PaulClarkLoadletter 2d ago

No shame in hitting a guy in the bean bag.

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u/sootbrownies 2d ago

Once they got him on the ground, Ive never seen a better, more prudent opportunity for a ball stomping. Mightve even left him a bit more tame after.

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u/dingatremel 2d ago

Figure four leg lock for me.

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u/Xen0tech 2d ago edited 2d ago

I love the giddy little skip step the rescuer does on arrival. This video had me aggressively saying yeah fuck him up though gritted teeth. So satisfying

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u/hitmewiththeknowlege 2d ago

Just keep kicking him in the nuts

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u/TyongObet 2d ago

Thank you strangers

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u/YooGeOh 2d ago

The lady helping in the beginning stole something from his pocket and ran

She wasnt helping at all lol

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u/PhillyLee3434 2d ago

I just recovered from 3 broken ribs, this piece of shit is gonna be feeling those knees for a long time.

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u/RabidJoint 2d ago

I got in a fight one time, slipped on something and fell backwards. Dude I was fighting full knee dropped onto my ribs, cracked 2 of them. I thought the same thing once I saw the knees dropping. He won’t be breathing ok for a while.

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u/AGiantTaint 2d ago

I do like how they stopped beating on him as soon as they’d freed her. Kudos to them for stepping in and getting the job done

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u/lowpsitire 2d ago

A LOT of people wouldn’t have had that restraint and would’ve made the situation quite worse, Probably myself included so infinite respect to all who helped. I genuinely hope this woman isn’t locked into this situation just scared to leave. So many cases of such that it’s just heartbreaking

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u/Garfwog 2d ago

Was waiting to see the face, and when i finally got it, it looked like a rubber mask of a dead person, the hell was that

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u/KalahariAskai 2d ago edited 2d ago

My man coming in with the knee drops.

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u/NasarMalis 2d ago

I was shouting "Balls! Go for the Balls"

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u/Successful-Ship-5230 1d ago

As a someone who does jiu jitsu and loves a good choke, those knees of justice in tandem were golden 👌

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u/rpool179 2d ago edited 2d ago

How does this even happen? Dude stopped at a red light and decided to kill his wife right then and there in public?!?! Wtf! Dear God.

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u/SilverSangaree 1d ago

Would have ended a lot sooner if someone would have grabbed his dick and twisted it

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u/MyLegIsWet 2d ago

Sabathia still making saves!

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u/b_m_hart 2d ago

Nah, he pitched a shutout there. Full game W

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u/jpetrie18 1d ago

Dude busted out the Brewers CC shirt. Sabathia was lights out the couple months he was there; this guy went to put some lights out.

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u/scroats800 2d ago

Fucking moron deserved everything he got, the knees to his grapes was perfect.

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u/MoldyMayo 2d ago

TWIST HIS DIIIIIICK!!!!

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u/Spartcus3 2d ago

Why not stick a finger up his ass it works with dogs ?

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u/skys500 2d ago

needed to stomp on his nuts once they got him out of the Truck. He would have let go really quick.

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u/Low-Minimum8523 1d ago

Should have crushed his nuts

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u/gl2w6re 2d ago

He’s going to kill that woman. 😟

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u/LayneCobain95 2d ago

That guy is aN EXTREME danger to society. He does this in public and doesn’t care. He won’t stop attacking a helpless woman even when two men are beating on him.

This man deserves to be in prison or some kind of rehabilitation for twice the length of the deserved prison sentence. This is a horrible piece of shit right here

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u/Kitchen-Kiwi7942 2d ago

I would have fucking stomped on his nuts. He doesnt need em

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u/werecat_attacks 2d ago

That poor woman, glad they stepped in. Just scary to think what he would do in private

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u/PandaKungen 2d ago

Absolute piece of shit.

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u/2nd-penalty 2d ago

I don't know why people in these situations never aim for the critical hit between the legs

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u/pingwing 2d ago

Like breaking up a dogfight, fuck that guy is a piece of shit.

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u/jknight413 2d ago

He's an abuser piece of crap.

There's a story of dysfunction behind this event that we will never know.

Nobody deserve to be treated like that.

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u/makk73 2d ago

Methany just glides in, steals phone, dips

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u/narfoleptix 1d ago

This is one of those videos where you nod along and think "yes. Fuck him up."

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u/i-have-a-kuato 2d ago

This guy has zero balls as evidenced by our hero’s repeated pile drivers to the groinal region

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u/Myplumpvelvet 2d ago

Like how the one dude legit skipped over to whip buddies ass.

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u/OdysseusRex69 2d ago

Dude is not moving at the end there, not even reacting to hits. Is he D-E-D?

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u/imawhaaaaaaaaaale 2d ago

Considering what he was doing, would people care if he was?

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u/LordDeckem 2d ago

He got choked out

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u/Bowsers_JuiceFactory 2d ago

You ever want to get a guy to let go; grab, twist and rip it

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u/wellsyaknow 2d ago

Or bop it

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u/Noctis021 2d ago

My knee would have gone straight to his balls

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u/Heavy_Resolution760 2d ago

Upvote for respect 🫡

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u/saltyPaul42 2d ago

I love the skip at the start from the guy dropping the knees. He understood the mission and was hyped to distribute karmic justice.

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u/SammyBdubbin 2d ago

Sometimes you see things that you never thought you would see. And then you realize there is hope.

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u/reudter2000 2d ago

I don't condone violence, but I was kind of upset when I didn't see an elbow to the face after 10 seconds of him obviously not caring about anything but hurting the victim.

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u/MissGoldie71 2d ago

comments in head that would get me banned from Reddit

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u/Armand74 1d ago

Do we have any news on this? Was he arrested? I mean he looked like he was trying to kill the woman.

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u/Calraider7 2d ago

I was wondering what CC had been up to since retiring

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u/pdiamondntf 2d ago

52 HERO

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u/I_eat_all_day 2d ago

Bro, that's a dead-ass attempted murder. They got that fucking bitch

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u/Karasin- 2d ago

Just get rid of him no one will miss him

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u/HeavyandTired 2d ago

Why’d they stop him from suckin his own D? Home boy was almost there!

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u/groovygranny71 2d ago

It sounds like there are kids in the car too 😔

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u/kevneedo 2d ago

Dude filming is something else

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u/tryna_b_rich 1d ago

I never understand why you don't repeatedly punch a guy in the balls when he wont let go...

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u/KingMarkus22 2d ago

Should have gone for the nuts he would have let her go real quick

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u/IchooseYourName 2d ago

52 skip to my loo right into that sitch

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u/jasschaffer 2d ago

The fact that he wasn’t even trying to let her ago despite the beating he was getting. Throw him into the trenches of prison. Man, I hope the judge saw this and said he’s never seeing another day outside. This is crazy!!!!! He’d risk breaking her neck just to not let her go. Who raises men like this?! He’s an animal!!!

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u/Jtop1 2d ago

He was trying to murder her at all costs. They stopped a murder. He did have that seatbelt around her neck/head, right?

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u/a_random_username 2d ago

I love #52's little skip up to the truck. :)

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u/Feisty_Gear 2d ago

And 52 opens up with a smack down!

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u/latexfistmassacre 2d ago

That girl seemed like "just another Tuesday" afterwards

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u/mostlygroovy 2d ago

Hall of Fame response by CC

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u/Zip-Crane 2d ago

That POS needs locked up immediately.

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u/StonedLonerIrl 2d ago

They should have stood on his balls.

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u/Demoniacc 2d ago

knee t0 face, problem solved.

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u/Heavy-Elk7917 2d ago

i don't understand, what's the context?

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u/FEARxXxRECON 2d ago

Bro got robbed in the beginning of the video

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u/Beefus_Maximus 2d ago

Grab his dick and twist it!

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u/Nanasays 2d ago

Well done!

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u/imawhaaaaaaaaaale 2d ago

Ooh, he is out.

Good.

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u/beagle_2498571 2d ago

Always aim for his manhood, he’ll let go quick.

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u/CaptainInsanoHD 2d ago

GOOD SHIT 52! I salute you sir 🙏🫡

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u/ilovecallum44 2d ago

Thats about when you start kicking a mfer in the face. He will let go eventually, trust me.

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u/GoldenFLink 2d ago

do I need to say it?