Michel Pena might get flashbacks watching this… a cop throwing his hand at an unarmed civilian and losing his own gear to put himself on a level playing field.
Check out this savage fight between a cop and an ordinary street schmoe…where they both decide to go head-to-head and fix whatever problem they’re having. It’s pretty crazy – the cop actually takes off his vest (but still keeps his gun) to properly throw it away.
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They trade minor blows for quite a while, with the cop seeming to have the upper hand – he’s way bigger to start – and the dude in green coming back for more with every round.
In the end, they seem to leave their differences on the sidewalk…seemingly without further incident. Of course, many pointed out that this doesn’t appear to have happened in the United States – where a civilian would surely be arrested for being scrapped with a cop.
Of course, the other observation here…this sounds a lot like a scene from the 2012 movie “End of Watch,” in which Pena and Jake Gyllenhaal star… where they play capricious cops. At one point in the film, Pena’s character, Mike Zavala, gets into a fight with a suspect.
Just like the cop here, he loses a bunch of armor and so on – and then lets the fists fly! Talk about life imitating art…or whatever.
