Ok, so it’s Tuesday night and I’m on my way to work. (Graveyard shift is so cool) As usual, I stop at the 7-11on my way for a bottle of orange juice and a can of Skoal. As I pull up, I notice a commotion on the side of the parking lot. I get out of my car and I can hear a woman screaming “HELP ME” and I see several people standing there. I go over to check it out and can’t believe what I am seeing. A good sized black guy beating the crap out of a small blonde woman. Nobody else is doing anything, just watching. I immediately step in and pull this guy off of this woman. I tell him he needs to stop now! He called me a stupid mother fucker and told me to mind my own business and reached for the woman again. This time I physically remove him from her and tell him he’s about to have the worst ten seconds of his life. Well, he swings at me and all hell breaks loose. Now I’m a pretty big guy and I can be intimidating when I have to be, but there was no dissuading this dude. Needless to say it was a pretty good fight. I get this guy down and ask the audience to please call the police. At that same moment a police car pulls up. (I guess the store owner called) Out of the car steps a black officer and he asks what’s going on. The crowd of onlookers quickly disperse, leaving me, the woman beater, and the lady who got beat. I tell the officer that this guy was hitting the woman and when I tried to stop it he swung at me. At this point I am literally sitting on the guy to hold him for the police. The officer tells me to get off of this guy, so I do. He tells the guy to get up be he says no, he can’t. He is complaining that he’s in pain and that I really messed him up. I walk over to the lady to see if she’s ok. She’s a little bruised and her lip is bleeding pretty badly, but otherwise she’s ok. I asked her why he beat her up and she said because she didn’t have enough money to buy him some smokes. What a guy. At this point I am really late for work so I head to my car and the officer stops me. This is the second time all hell breaks loose tonight. He tells me that he is placing me under arrest for assault and battery. I said what the hell for? All I did was defend myself and this lady! I was doing the right thing! He tells me that I beat this guy pretty badly and he feels that it may have been “Racially Motivated”. I can’t believe what I am hearing. I tell him what happened again and say race had absolutely nothing to do with it. Regardless, I am still placed under arrest and put into the car. An ambulance and a fire truck pull up as well as another police unit. The paramedics attend to this guy first and a fireman talks to the lady. Not too sure what happened after that because my new friend and I leave the scene.

Apparently, (I found out later that morning) The poor woman beater ended up with a broken wrist, a broken nose and two black eyes and three fractured ribs. I can’t say I feel any remorse at all. But I am rather pissed off at the fact that I was arrested for assault and this asshole will get off with a slap on the hand. My lawyer says it’s pretty much an open and shut case. But still, I have to go to court. Thanks for putting up with my rant.