Please Explain

[R. Richard]

Minnesota Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie was charged with a felony following a confrontation at a Miami night club over the weekend.

McKinnie was charged with aggravated battery and disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence after a street brawl outside Club Space early Sunday morning.

Please explain who would get in a fight with the 6-foot-8-inch, 335-pound Bryant McKinnie.

 

[LoquaciousLady]

Somebody very, very drunk.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Somebody very, very drunk.

Or very, very stupid. Or with a death wish.

 

[R. Richard]

If there was every a lesson to be learned from alcohol abuse, this might have been it.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Please explain who would get in a fight with the 6-foot-8-inch, 335-pound Bryant McKinnie.

Only if he is trying to kill me and I have no place to run

 

[R. Richard]

Only if he is trying to kill me and I have no place to run

Think appliances against someone that size. You are not seeking an equalizer, but superiority.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Think appliances against someone that size. You are not seeking an equalizer, but superiority.

Well he only has me by 115 pounds, so... wait... That's one and a hlaf my size... I need a gun...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hand to hand combat is best done at night, from behind, with an ax!

 

[glynndah]

Those kind of beer goggles generally come with a warning sticker. "Items may be bigger and meaner than they appear." I guess that guy's fell off.

 

[sr71plt]

Minnesota Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie was charged with a felony following a confrontation at a Miami night club over the weekend.

McKinnie was charged with aggravated battery and disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence after a street brawl outside Club Space early Sunday morning.

Please explain who would get in a fight with the 6-foot-8-inch, 335-pound Bryant McKinnie.

Why wouldn't it just be someone who didn't get out of his way fast enough when he snapped his fingers? Doesn't it usually happen because the athlete's head is too big?

 

[R. Richard]

Why wouldn't it just be someone who didn't get out of his way fast enough when he snapped his fingers? Doesn't it usually happen because the athlete's head is too big?

It might. However, the need for a strategic retreat to safety is something club goers need to always keep in mind.

 

[Weird Harold]

Please explain who would get in a fight with the 6-foot-8-inch, 335-pound Bryant McKinnie.

Anyone who thought he was tough enough to play football, but was denied his chance at glory because of some conspiracy to keep him poor and stupid. Add a few beer molecules to trigger the "He ain't all that tough and I can prove it" thought process and things tend to escalate.

Pro Sports figures have become the modern equivalent of notorious gunfighters in the old west -- taking one down proves you're better than he is.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Minnesota Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie was charged with a felony following a confrontation at a Miami night club over the weekend.

McKinnie was charged with aggravated battery and disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence after a street brawl outside Club Space early Sunday morning.

Please explain who would get in a fight with the 6-foot-8-inch, 335-pound Bryant McKinnie.

Since McKinnie is the guy accused, maybe he was drunk and assaulted somebody. It takes two to make a fight, but only one to make an assault.

 

[DesertPirate]

Whatever excuse or reason that is given it all boils down to a near terminal case of dumbass.

 

[stickwork]

Minnesota Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie was charged with a felony following a confrontation at a Miami night club over the weekend.

McKinnie was charged with aggravated battery and disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence after a street brawl outside Club Space early Sunday morning.

Please explain who would get in a fight with the 6-foot-8-inch, 335-pound Bryant McKinnie.

Explain "resisting arrest without violence".

 

[Boxlicker101]

Explain "resisting arrest without violence".

It might be the "going limp" thing that civil rights protesters did years ago.

 

[elsol]

Minnesota Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie was charged with a felony following a confrontation at a Miami night club over the weekend.

McKinnie was charged with aggravated battery and disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence after a street brawl outside Club Space early Sunday morning.

Please explain who would get in a fight with the 6-foot-8-inch, 335-pound Bryant McKinnie.

Sometimes, you don't 'get' into a fight... sometimes the fight 'runs' into you.

See because you're right... very few people PICK a fight with a refrigerator that can outrun most of us in a forty.

 

[R. Richard]

Explain "resisting arrest without violence".

Usuall the 'resisting arrest without violence' charge means that the guy wouldn't let the scumbags just cuff him. However, he didn't attack the scumbags. Then, after the scumbags gathered enough uniforms, he surrendered.

 

[DesertPirate]

Usuall the 'resisting arrest without violence' charge means that the guy wouldn't let the scumbags just cuff him. However, he didn't attack the scumbags. Then, after the scumbags gathered enough uniforms, he surrendered.

Most cops seem to get perturbed when someone stands there and laughs at them

The poor cop probably wasn't strong enough to move his arm to get a cuff on it

*pictures portable mountain standing there with arms folded, laughing*

 

[stickwork]

It might be the "going limp" thing that civil rights protesters did years ago.

Good question.

I think though that they were usually arrested for public disturbance or some violation of a court/city order - if I remember correctly MLK/non-violent civ. rights groups usually encouraged non-resistance to police force and/or accepted/desired arrest as a public statement.

 

[stickwork]

It might be the "going limp" thing that civil rights protesters did years ago.

Yes, I guess running away from cops would also qualify for this R.A. w/o violence charge.

Maybe they're just picayune in Miami vis a vis categorizing criminal acts - usually when involving violence it's just two separate charges:

1. res. arrest

2. A&B on a police officer

I.e. you get no categorical 'pat on the back' for not assaulting cop while resisting arrest.

Must have been a post-Jim Morrison-legislative-shakeup.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Good question.

I think though that they were usually arrested for public disturbance or some violation of a court/city order - if I remember correctly MLK/non-violent civ. rights groups usually encouraged non-resistance to police force and/or accepted/desired arrest as a public statement.

What they were told to do was to just lie on the ground on their hands and do nothing to resist, but also do nothing to cooperate. When the cops wanted to cuff them, they would have to pull their hands out from under themto apply the cuffs, and carry them into the paddy wagon. An effective method of hampering the cops, as long as it was done in public, with newsreel cameras running. In private, it would have resulted in head-busting.

I don't know if that is what happened here or not.