02-13-2023, 01:33 PM
(02-13-2023, 11:18 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: Oh, goodness. None of this is relevant to what I posted. I never said she didn't hit him first, or push him. I made fun of you for saying she decked him because you're being absurd. She lightly slapped him, and he responded by quite literally breaking her face. Now, there are two trains of thought here that I think are reasonable.
Amelia shouldn't have pushed or slapped him. She was 100% wrong for that. However, Mixon is also 100% in the wrong for how he responded. Mixon is a collegiate athlete, likely outweighs her by 80 pounds, and he responded to a light slap to the face by hitting her hard enough to bounce her head off of a table which required facial surgery to fix. All of this can be true. To me, in my humble opinion, a (sober?) collegiate athlete breaking a drunk woman's face after she lightly slaps him is ridiculous in the same way as a grown man kicking a 12 year old's ass because he kicked him in the shin.
- Don't hit people if you don't want to get hit.
- Respond reasonably when you are confronted by a weaker person.
Amelia's arrest record is irrelevant to this situation. She was arrested for marijuana in 2013. It has no ties to the altercation.
I think some of you need to pause to consider the concepts of cause and effect. Did her actions of 2x laying hands on Joe Mixon cause her to get punched? YES. That is why she was punched. Yet, you keep ducking the fact that she layed hands on him 2x and are excusing that with "She's a drunk girl". Well, soemtimes the reaction you get isn't the one you expect.
I also enjoy that some of you think it's ok for the first offender in any situation to set the level of aggression and response. That's funny. On the few occasions in my life that someone has been stupid enough to physically touch at me with violence, they immediately regretted it. Not a little. But a lot. Enough to know to not touch me ever again. The first actor in a violent situation doesn't set the level of violence. They just set the fact that there is violence being done. After that, good luck to em.
^ That being said...
I would personally NEVER hit a woman unless a life was in danger or they had a weapon or something. But I cannot put my values onto Joe Mixon and neither can you. Joe Mixon was a teenager when he did that. Are teenagers in great control of their emotional responses? Typically NOT.
Do I think his response was warranted? NO! Not at all. And I've repeatedly said this.
Do I think Mixon's group started the war of words w inapropriate comments? YES
Did the girl have a chance to not punch or slap him? YES
Did she get punched after she slapped/punched him? YES
Was she physically being threatened or in danger before she hit Mixon? NO
Did I excuse Joe Mixon's response? NO
I brought up her arrest record and that she was hammered drunk in public (during the incident) to show that she is no choir girl. Ironically people are getting upset at that... WHILE BRINGING UP A PARKING TICKET AGAINST JOE MIXON. The hypocrisy is in that is thick. Hilarious, actually.
All I did in my original post that got some of you simps feathers all up was say that there were layers to what happened in 2014 and that Mixon has been no trouble at all since being a Bengal. I then layed out what happened after reading repeated false statements from members on here because some of you goofballs seemingly like to imagine different scenarios - of which I provided links showing that you guys were full of #%&* in your recollection of events.
At least none of you are trying to dispute the facts of what happened and we're just down to a parking ticket and he shouldn't have responded that way. No shit, Sherlock. Of course he shouldn't have responded that way. NO ONE IS SAYING HE SHOULD HAVE.
