Word: muggers
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...friend and I, both still believing that the Square was a funky urban paradise, were walking along Dunster Street. Out of nowhere, a hyperactive skinhead ran up to us, punched me in the nose and promptly ran away. I don't lack experience with the big city. The standard mugger protocol is to ask for the wallet, and failing victim compliance, to take it by force. This clownish freak skipped that step entirely. What is done in other cities for lucre is done here for love alone...
...traditional case of self-defense, a jury is presented a "snapshot" of a crime: the mugger threatens a subway rider with a knife; the rider pulls a gun and shoots his attacker. It is up to the jurors to decide whether the danger was real and immediate and whether the response was reasonable. A woman who shoots her husband while he lunges at her with a knife should have little trouble claiming that she acted in self-defense. Yet lawyers still find jurors to be very uncomfortable with female violence under any circumstances, especially violence directed...
...instance, if an officer is stopping a fight between two men on the street, he should not pin down the presumed assailant without first taking the time to "count one two three," calm down and assess the situation. Pinning down the victim by mistake would allow the mugger to escape, he says...
When San Francisco taxi driver Holden Charles Hollom saw a mugger knock down a Japanese tourist and grab her purse, he drove off in hot pursuit and pinned the suspect against the wall with his cab, breaking...
...mugger, Ocie McClure, was found guilty of robbery and sentenced to 10 years in prison. But then he filed a damage suit against Hollom. Earlier this month a jury found that Hollom used excessive force in making a citizen's arrest and ordered him to pay McClure...