This is such a silly mindset. If you decide to just assume information from a particular source is a lie without taking the time to check it, you're voluntarily sticking yourself in a bubble that only contains a subset of the facts.

For the record, I wouldn't have said it if I hadn't already seen the video (https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1870916125367714219), I just didn't have the link easily to hand at the time. Again, lots of people walking past, some idiot filming on his phone and talking about how "crazy" it is, nobody helping. The bystander effect is real.

Yes, I've been in more fights than I'd like, I studied martial arts for over 15 years, five of which I spent teaching. I know what I'm talking about.

And while you obviously couldn’t list “thousands” of examples of somebody stepping up, I’m not denying that most confrontations don’t end in someone dying. I’m saying that if they do, it’s very rarely because the person who stepped up intended to commit murder. Accidents really do happen.

Killing somebody can be surprisingly easy actually. There are several cases, one of which I even link to in the article, of a completely untrained guy killing somebody with a single punch, while drunk, because they hit their head wrong when they landed or they had some kind of undetected underlying condition. Or again, take George Floyd or Eric Garner or Tony Tampa or dozens of others.

Say whatever you want about racism or ACABs or anything else, but I don't think any of those cops were trying "really hard" to kill civilians on camera. But especially when you're messing with blood flow or oxygen to the brain, people can die quite easily.

As I already said, if you have somebody in a rear naked choke, say, all you have to do is keep holding it, you don't have to apply any extra pressure at all, and they go from unconscious to dead in 4-5 minutes. It's not hard, never mind "really hard."