True story, just happened a few days ago and pretty interesting on several levels. I was in for roll call at the PD and we were told we had one in the lockup to be transported for arraignment on domestic assault and battery. The woman, 41 years old, 5' 2" & 120 lbs. broke her boyfriend's jaw with one right hook.
He was 35 and according to our court officer was at least 6' tall and all of 200lbs, she stated a real rugged looking guy. When an officer asked the woman if she had any training in boxing she stated, 'A little."
Now the good part of this story is it shows size and strength can be made up for with good technique and that a small middle aged women has the potentional of dropping a good sized male adversary with a well placed punch. Some may say maybe he has a glass jaw or whatever but one thing is definite, she dropped him with one right hook!
Now, the second interesting point is to see how this is handled by the court system. According to the court officer the woman punched him while they were having an argument. He did not assault or threaten her which is why there were no charges against him and he is listed as the victim of domestic abuse. I think everyone pretty much knows where I'm going with this. If it were a guy who broke a woman's jaw under the same circumstance he would be making license plates right now!
An interesting case to follow. Comments anyone?
Shihan Joe
