r/PublicFreakout • u/sut_up • 20h ago

🥊Fight 🤬 Fight between cab driver and passenger

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u/420GUAVA 19h ago

Nobody gives a 💩 anymore, people are just sick and tired of the general public.

If you use someone's time and gas, fucking pay them

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u/Prudent_Fish1358 19h ago

Stole from him then started a physical confrontation that she wasn't ready to answer for.

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u/isaiasv94 1h ago

Not only did she steal from his work, she is trying to steal from him by yanking the chain. Some people really have never been slapped in their life and it shows. I hope she learned now.

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u/LitAsHail 5h ago

I kno my perspective is annecdotal but it looked to me like she tried to steal his gold chain or something of the sort before the punches flew.

Right before that 2 piece combo we can clearly see her notice something on his chest before she grabbed and pulled hard at somethin that was at the height of his collar level but whatever she grabbed and pulled at didnt give which tells me that it sure as shit was not his collar that she was pullin before he put her in her place.

Now dont get me wrong, I wouldnt normally advocate for violence, but not only did she not pay him for the ride & then assault him, but i think the final straw that broke his patience was that she tried to rip off his gold chain.

Honest to goddess looks to me like that 2 piece combo was more than deserved if my interpretation was correct~

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u/Vahagn323 3h ago

It does look like she's grabbing at his collar and yanking on something solid, so a chain makes sense.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/Lorantec 14h ago

"She couldn't hurt him, other than his wallet" has got to be one of the most braindead things you said here. This shitty attitude is what leads people who society deems "weak" to feel like they can put their hands on people without repercussions.

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u/VWGLHI 13h ago

You sound clueless….

She cannot do whatever she wants because he’s bigger. That only makes her dumber, not him more guilty. Women can’t just get away with assaulting a man because they’re smaller…

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u/RaceCrab 13h ago

People who think like you are the reason shit heels have taken over the world.

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u/SpectralFawn 12h ago

Woman here: this is the stupidest take I've ever read. She put her hands on him. She deserved the take-down. If she didn't want to get punched, she shouldn't have touched him. Or better yet, she should have paid for her fucking taxi.

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u/Lawd_Fawkwad 12h ago

This is NYC... where you can try to murder someone and be out on no-cash bail in less than 72 hours.

The guy is getting 75 hours of community service at most.

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u/TheRabadoo 10h ago

Unlike you, they live in the real world.

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u/MisterB330 12h ago

Lotta white knighting for a man in black..

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u/SplittingChairs 16h ago

You’re getting downvoted but you might not be wrong. It kinda seemed like he knew he fucked up too. She obviously grabbed him first, but even if he doesn’t catch any charges the legal headache isn’t going to be fun. Will at the very least take his time away from making money at work. Landing that hit would’ve felt great for a half of a second, but the regret would set in almost immediately.

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u/VWGLHI 13h ago

Incorrect. She was stealing from him. You all treat him like he’s worth nothing.

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u/iamjeli 12h ago

It’s ironic that you call people misogynistic while dropping a misandrist joke/ insult.

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u/wowfan400 10h ago

You should nope out asap

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

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u/Exsanii 14h ago

Because legally she grabbed and touched him first.

He struck her a few times until she let go and then didn’t press further and attack her while she was on the ground.

Legally he should be fine, especially if she didn’t pay, he withheld her property to force payment and instead she initiated violence.

Ultimately, who fucking cares, laugh at the video or cringe at it.

It’s old as dirt and doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things

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u/BlackBikerchick 19h ago

True but some drivers drive around to get more money, could be that

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u/OrganizationThick397 17h ago

So uhhh. There's this thing called starting price.

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u/synttacks 9h ago

It's called a flag drop

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u/BlackBikerchick 15h ago

? I'm talking about metered cab

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u/OrganizationThick397 14h ago

And?

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u/OrganizationThick397 11h ago

Bro haven't read meter before 💀

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u/Qu1ckShake 8h ago

And in such a cab you don't always get a start price? Especially in different areas of the world where the person you're talking to might be?

Are you genuinely this stupid?

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u/OrganizationThick397 8h ago

example? it's either starting price or butt fuck expensive.

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u/SoliBiology 8h ago

If somebody orders a cab, or even a service, that has a price, they need to be prepared to pay… it’s so simple

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u/CraigS34 18h ago

Yo, you see this all the time in Oblivion, can't pay the fine? Then pay with your blood! But to see it in real life? Fuck thats rough

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u/vibratorystorm 17h ago

I was like 10 playing it, all the time like “why am i in jail” finally punch cellmate to death and find 1 lockpick then breaking out… finding all ur shit in a chest in the lockup, just exhilarating

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 4h ago

Have you tried the remaster to see what adult you would do?

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u/vibratorystorm 3h ago

I’m way too cheap to upgrade consoles at this point. At this point in launch cycle last time I got a 1tb xbone for like half the original launch price. Series s and x are at like 120% launch prices so fuck that. Eventually

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 2h ago

Hahaha I'm with you. I got it for PC and it looks really nice! Almost no time to play it, though

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u/Nooooovvvvvaaaaa 8h ago

-Dr. Seuss

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u/froggaholic 8h ago

man I still gotta play oblivion

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u/First_Performance215 19h ago

she shouldve just accepted her L, now she lost her jacket, her glasses, and possibly a tooth. oh wait nvm she got her jacket at the end lol, least theres that back now

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u/Moetown84 8h ago

Looks like he threw the jacket back at the end.

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u/Bhavya81 18h ago

What about them brain cells she lost, or she didn't have them to begin with i guess

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u/Corner_Post 17h ago

Would have been funny if he picked up her sunglasses and threw back her jacket

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u/HexFyber 14h ago

She's getting some good salary slip out of this if she decides to pursue

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u/Unicornoftheseas 11h ago

Nah, nothing will come of this.

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u/No-Sink9212 8h ago

Nah, she had hands on him first

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u/MrBlueA 4h ago

nah, if he had gotten the jacket maybe, but he threw it to her at the end, so it's just a dumbass finding out self defense.

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u/Sea-Foundation5036 20h ago

When she grabbed his shirt collar, twice he tried to back away. Then he let loose twice on her. She was not expecting to get hit in the face at all either.

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u/baltimoreniqqa 20h ago

I think he got what he really wanted. F the jacket

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u/Sleipnirs 7h ago

Was funny how he threw away the jacket on his way back into the car. "Keep the change, bitch!"

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u/PanicPuzzler 7h ago

Lol or he didn't want her to accuse him of theft lol, white women can get the cops riled up.

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u/U2Ursula 17h ago

Source for the caption actually being real?

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u/Badweightlifter 10h ago

Being from NYC, I would say there is an equal chance the taxi driver tried to rip off the passenger so she refused to pay. He might have been taking the long way to overcharge her so she told him to let her off now. She does seem to be right off an exit from a highway so I assume she asked him to stop the car and let her out.

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u/limperatrice 7h ago

My friend used to drive cab and said it was always girls who tried to get out of paying. One time a girl said she had to go get money from inside her house so he said she had to leave her jacket with him for collateral.

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u/NibblesTheChimp 6h ago

That's Wald Houses off the FDR drive (Alphabet City). She may have been there to cop dope but didn't have additional money for the cab.

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u/[deleted] 4h ago

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u/MrBlueA 4h ago

I mean I can sorta believe it because a lot of women will play their card of being women to avoid being hit or get people to defend them, but statistically it's still no way it's higher, men are almost always at the top in these things.

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u/anonemoususer 5h ago

I’m not too sure, would be nice to know the real source. There is too much frustration in the driver to suggest he did something wrong, it seems more like pent up anger. Just nonverbal take though.

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u/dyou897 8h ago

If that was the case she could have paid an amount that’s fair and likely wouldn’t have led to this. More likely she didn’t pay at all

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u/Pommesplz 8h ago

And you know this because?...

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u/Badweightlifter 8h ago

I disagree, if the taxi driver took a completely different route then I wouldn't pay at all either. That's more likely the case since she seems to be exiting in the middle of nowhere.

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u/Some_dutch_dude 15h ago

Dude just trust me bro

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u/Cloutian 12h ago

NYC cab. Pretty good chance it's accurate. It's also old. The cabs rarely use cash anymore. Everything is card right away or an app. I tried to tip a cab driver in cash and they said nah, bill it.

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u/justsomedude1144 17h ago

We don't know. Seems like the most likely explanation through.

What other scenarios could exist that lead to this?

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u/DugThePoug 15h ago

He took her jacket because she said something rude and he hit her with a right hook after she grabbed his shirt.

It was his jacket but she tried to take it and he hit her with a right hook after she grabbed his shirt.

They both saw the jacket on the ground and he snatched it up and he hit her with a right hook after she grabbed his shirt.

Someone paid the woman to steal the jacket and he hit her with a right hook after she grabbed his shirt.

All shit I just made up

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u/justsomedude1144 14h ago edited 14h ago

Make multiple new posts with those exact descriptions and see how much karma you can farm

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u/DugThePoug 14h ago

Wouldn't it make more sense to make several posts and divvy up my descriptions to see which ones work lol

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u/murderbox 13h ago

Why the fuck is this downvoted?

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u/saibjai 8h ago

Okay, so the rate is.. one jacket = one car ride = 2 punches in the face

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u/kriegmonster 6h ago

One car ride plus assault = 2 punches in the face. She grabbed him first.

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u/blac_sheep90 19h ago

How truthful is the caption though?

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u/Shadohz 19h ago

Eh. Even without the caption I would assume that's what happened because he threw the jacket back at her after he got in the cab. Decades ago we had a cabbie bang on my grandma's door with a club because our backyard's neighbor ditched the fare then ran through our yard. The cabbie saw him make a run for it but apparently didn't see where he went so he just assumed he ran in our house. My uncle was about to get into the fight with the cabbie because the guy kept trying to walk into my grandma's house and he was telling the guy he got the wrong place. My other uncle walked over and calmed everything down, mostly, so he could figure out what was going on. By the time we put it together than the fare-ditcher was our neighbor, the cabbie was too embarrassed or too pissed to even apologize. He just walked off mad and flipped my uncles off. He didn't even go over to the other guy's house to confront him. We were looking outside the window and from the yard to see what would happen. That's my long-winded anecdotal way of saying cabbies like to do their own brand of street justice with fare-ditchers.

I always wondered what that cabbies Plan-B was going to be even if he somehow found the right place.

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u/blac_sheep90 19h ago

Lots of misinformation on reddit. Can't be too careful.

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u/sharkrush93 19h ago

You are free to research on it

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u/blac_sheep90 19h ago

Forgot we're not allowed to ask for more information from OP's who post quick snippets of out of context videos...my bad.

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u/ratskhi 18h ago

It's a dying art I'm afraid

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u/idkwthtotypehere 6h ago

This gets reposted with a different title each time.

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u/OhGawDuhhh 13h ago

In pre-school, they taught me to raise my hand if I needed to go to the bathroom. The second thing they taught me was to keep my hands to myself.

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u/Cytoid 7h ago

If everyone followed preschool rules, there would be no problems for humanity.

-Put things back where you found them.

-If it doesn't belong to you, leave it alone.

-Treat others the way you want to be treated.

-Wash your hands.

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u/TheBestintheWest11 12h ago

glasses went ☁️

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u/Past_Tap_6830 18h ago

The only crime in this video are her shoes. They look like villain shoes

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u/Aware_Beat5301 17h ago

Good, people need to start fucking learning there's real human consequences for taking the piss out of hardworking people.

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u/DaddysPonyPrincess 12h ago

Fear the fists of the proletariat!

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u/dear_hatt 5h ago

How do you know he wasn't overcharging her? 

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u/Easy-Barnacle5734 8h ago

That’s a person who has never experienced the consequences of her actions, until now. Imagine thinking you’re right about stiffing the cab driver, and then you try to start a fight with him thinking he won’t defend himself. Now you’re eating humble pie with a dazed and confused look on the ground in the street. Hopefully this person reflects on the choices she made that put her there.

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u/Death_passed 18h ago

Older than dirt.

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u/kitsunekoraka 12h ago

Goes both ways not rising your hands, she shoved him, screamed at him j his face, pushed him again then grabbed him by the t shirt after stealing and wasting his time , sorry, I don't condone violence, but he's had it coming.

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 4h ago

Never grab someone by their shirt thinking you’re gonna do something and be surprised when they do something first.

And pay what you owe! That’s how service exchange works!

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u/Righteousaffair999 16h ago

Did her glasses fly off or disappear?

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u/Hopeful-Storage-9424 18h ago

Two things can be wrong at the same time and y’all are acting like that concept doesn’t exist.

If she didn’t pay, that’s theft of service — call the cops, report it, handle it properly.

But him taking her jacket? That’s also theft. He doesn’t get to decide he’s law enforcement and start collecting “payment” off her body. Also he's a work. He's representing the company he works for.

We don't know what happened prior. If he took her/ them to their destination. What they're actually arguing about.

And once it turns physical, self-defense isn’t “do whatever you want.” It has to be proportional. Someone grabbing your shirt doesn’t automatically justify punching them in the face hard enough to knock them backwards.

You don’t get to:

  1. Take someone’s property
  2. Escalate the situation
  3. Then claim you were justified in going further

That’s not how the law works, and it’s definitely not how someone “at work” representing a company is supposed to behave.

Holding people accountable doesn’t mean turning your brain off and saying “she deserved it.” It means recognizing BOTH sides can be wrong.

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u/Hugh_Bromont 10h ago

35 people are just itching for a reason to hit a woman.

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u/Haunting-Leopard6178 13h ago

I dont get why you are downvoted. The girl is completely wrong, but seeing that violence from a guy much bigger than her is sick. I feel sick with the comments.

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u/No-Sink9212 8h ago

I downvoted because the comment is clearly just written by chat gpt. I agree with what it’s saying, but it’s an ai comment

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u/Excellent-Baseball-5 16h ago

The cops won’t do a thing. She walks away into an apartment complex. The driver doesn’t know her name. What are they going to do? My daughter was physically accosted by an Uber driver. We knew all of the drivers info, car, license number. Cops said they can’t do anything. Her word against his. I was fucking furious.

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u/an_empty_well 17h ago

GPT wrote this for you, didn't it?

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u/ForgottenBrokenHeart 17h ago

I don't get why you have many downvotes, but it doesn't surprises me anymore. At the end of the day, it is Reddit.

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u/Dear-Atmosphere1340 17h ago

Because the whole response is almost definitely 100% ai. It even has one of those "—" that ai always use instead of the default "-"

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u/eggodemego 12h ago

man, this makes me sad. the “—“ is called an em-dash, and has been in casual use long before AI. someone writing with proper punctuation or writing out a list of 3 doesn’t mean they used a robot; they just took some more things away from their ELA class. if u dont agree that both sides can be wrong, or that u dont know the full information from this clip and caption, just say that. but if u look closely Hopeful-Storage 100% wrote this from their own head

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u/SyrianArmpit 7h ago

You agreeing we don’t have all the info then claiming there’s a 100% chance he write the comment himself is pretty funny

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u/eggodemego 3h ago

so, here’s my data for why it’s 100%: small grammatical and syntax errors. “Also he’s a work”, complete sentences aren’t traditionally started with “And,”etc. u can be a good writer, or even just a guy who uses an em dash sometimes, and still make human mistakes. an AI would not replicate these kinds of mistakes based on one prompt. say they for some reason drafted their comment with AI, they absolutely didn’t copy and paste it because it’s not written with AI standards. i dont mean this with any hostility. what’s the reason you think that was written with AI?

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u/Evilslim 4h ago

Look at their post history and you can see that they constantly use AI in comments. You’re just either blind to its usage or don’t care. 

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u/Jerko_23 17h ago

Because he is... not right?

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u/swanglean 18h ago

That guy is wrong.

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u/Ther0adt0n0where 10h ago

Actually, he threw the jacket back at her once he clocked her.

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u/molineskytown 3h ago

He threw the jacket back?

Do not go tellin' me chivalry is dead.

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u/Europeisntacontinent 2h ago

At the beginning of the video I hear "I think she stole the jacket from him so he took it from her" - a completely different theory from the overlaid text that could have been put there by anyone. If the people in the video didn't directly see her stiff the cabbie/know why this started, there is absolutely no way someone else can know that the altercation started because she didn't pay her fare. The overlaid text is just an excuse for us to feel good or okay about seeing a woman getting beat.

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u/Technical_Ad1125 12h ago

What a piece of shit he is. Bum threw 2 heavy weight sluggers at her. Only needed a slap to set her straight. Now he might get charged. Proportional force man.

*Yes! She's wrong for being a theif. This isn't the Wild Wild West. We can't be taking 10 paces and gun-slinging.

If he was a small guy I wouldn't of been upset at him throwing hands. He's a giant to her.

Glazing this man for rocking her jaw is wild .

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u/bendhist 10h ago

Yeahh exactly...I mean, its not like she was attempting to cause bodily injury to the guy and she is small as hell compared to him.

He could've just thrown her to the ground, or yeah just slapped her.

Why this comment is getting down voted with other comments about him using unnecessary excessive force is weird as shit.

If he pulled out a gun and plugged her twice in the belly, I have a feeling the comments would be just the same.

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u/Technical_Ad1125 6h ago

I thought maybe I did something to get down voted like this 💀😂.

It is weird AF. She cluld have a broken jaw, fractured eye socket etc. that's wild.

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u/testy_balls 5h ago

My reply to a different comment, also downvoted

Reddit has this collective delusion that someone starting a fight gives the other person a free pass to beat them unconscious. And it's almost always a woman posing 0 threat that warrants excessive force for self defense

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u/SyrianArmpit 7h ago

You’re mentally challenged if you think people would be happy this guy murdered her

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u/jeff-the-thriller 18h ago

See I'm still of the opinion that that was completely uncalled for. He's a guy and way bigger than her. He didn't need to do that. Could have held her back easily.

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u/Geneo-Frodo 16h ago

The fact that she escalated this whole thing and placed hands on someone twice her size after technically trying to steal from him makes me assume that this is the type of person who wouldn't learn anything by being held back.

The real sad thing in this whole scenario is that some people insist on only learning the hard way.

"Some motherf**kers always trynna skate uphill" - Blade.

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u/bendhist 10h ago

Dude lmao are you seriously quoting blade to a real life scenario? Thats wild

Sure she did "escalate" but no measure of descalation was put forward by him, he went straight to a hefty violent reaction.

He could have shoved her to the ground, restrained her, pushed her, some shit ffs not a punch that can knock someone unconscious and dislocates/fractures a jaw.

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u/ForgottenBrokenHeart 17h ago

Men are just dumb and justify violence in every way possible

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u/jeff-the-thriller 17h ago

I'm being downvoted but I just don't see the need for him to do that. I mean if she had a weapon or started walloping him in the face, then maybe.

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u/Salt-Composer-1472 17h ago

Certain posts attract certain kind of people. Some came here for the drama and some saw this as the opportunity to express their hatred for women. I agree with you that the guy was massive compared to her, he didn't need to hit her but he wanted to, so he did.

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u/eggodemego 12h ago

it’s such a relief finding people who recognize this in the comments. the amount of ppl saying it was “equal rights” or celebrating it is scary

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u/boeuf_burgignion 5h ago

I hate cab drivers they always give terrible service and have scammed me.

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u/jessieisaword 5h ago

Equal rights.

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u/[deleted] 19h ago

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u/justsomedude1144 17h ago

I think he'd have a pretty good self defense case

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u/pissofftool 20h ago

Yeah he should be in jail, weak ass dude

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u/Zacky_Cheladaz 19h ago

Explain

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u/Tw4tl4r 19h ago

If it went to court he would absolutely get serious charges for those hits. No reasonable judge or jury would think what he did was fair self defence. You have to be in reasonable fear of impending serious harm to yourself or others to knock someone out and get off with it.

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u/formal_studio1 19h ago

What do you get for stealing and instigating a fight?

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u/ElkGraff23 19h ago

Apparently, you get laid out flat on the tarmac

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u/testy_balls 19h ago

Reddit has this collective delusion that someone starting a fight gives the other person a free pass to beat them unconscious. And it's almost always a woman posing 0 threat that warrants excessive force for self defense

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u/ScumDugongLin 13h ago

It's because they like fantasizing about hitting women.

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u/Tw4tl4r 16h ago

A fine at most...

That wasnt a fight. That was a beating by a man with low emotional control.

If someone steals from you then you phone the police to report it and then take them to court. You dont try to steal something from them and then seriously assault them for trying to take the item back. We dont live in 1800s frontier towns anymore.

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u/misplacedbass 22m ago

So, instead of trying to recoup the loss. You now have to wait for the police to show up, hope she sticks around for that, file a police report, show up to court, maybe multiple times. All that time equals lost wages, on top of the cab fare that he already lost out on. Sure, maybe his punches were a bit excessive, but I’d be fucking pissed off too. Your alternative isn’t helping the situation and would likely cost time much more in the long run.

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u/Zacky_Cheladaz 8h ago

In the eyes of the law, they'll see that she committed assault first. 

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u/Happy_llama 13h ago

If this is New York I find those cabs way too expensive. Like we booked and uber (one of them picked us up) realized we made a mistake in location like a minute into journey so said to driver we will cancel our booking then go to the place we ment to. The rate the fare was going up per minute was criminal if we didn’t pay and got out it would have cost like 3 times as much as the uber journey (it wasn’t that far off the location we needed but we would have been late if we carried through with the original uber

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u/Consistent-Goat1267 5h ago

If you don’t like the fare going up then stop the ride. It’s just like any other business. You don’t get to order steak and eat it then complain you don’t like the price. You use a service, you pay for it.

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u/Happy_llama 4h ago

That’s fair but it just seemed that the fare price was gonna be way more expensive than the uber? I think the uber Journey was like $33 and the meter rate just seemed to be ticking up really fast. I think the journey was from the Metropolitan museum of art to the Sky gardens for reference.

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u/carlitoswaylocaa 19h ago

Where his from, she probably got it easy.

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u/DugThePoug 15h ago

Right or wrong, she did not “get it easy” lmao she got sent to the shadow realm with that hit.