This is a very important video to watch. To begin with the news caster starts out with the judgment that two lives have been ruined by this callous action. I suppose that statement is the best evidence too-date that Italian-Americans are not white, as it is usually reserved for an African-American perp.

There appears to have been an argument in which the smaller, younger man of recent Middle Eastern extraction made a threat, then turned around and looked out the window, seemingly in the process of cooling off. Then, a man 15-years his senior and 100 pounds heavier, punched him in the side-back portion of the head, killing him. The patrons then stood over the dying man and joked.

I once had an older, stronger Italian-American man try and kill me with a come behind attack because I made the mistake of turning my back after standing up to him and his friends. I found out years later that this guy used to get younger coworkers drunk at bars in unpopulated industrial areas and then beat them up for their paycheck on the parking lot.

In our increasingly emasculated society, one can expect this kind of attack more readily than a confrontation, so never turn your back on a man or his friends who you have just had words with. Especially a white—or seemingly white—man. In this case, Ali would have been better off arguing with a black man, as these men habitually crave verbal confrontation as a go switch and shy away from such attacks. Also note that African-American youth are commonly employing this attack in street-stranger situations, where there is no provocation. Ali should have backed out of the bar and then outrun the waddling Wop.

What the young man did used to be common in civil environs, turn away and cool off, breaking off the argument. The problem is this assumes a cooler head is present to calm the still riled antagonists and in this case there was not.

All in all, the world is now such that most attacks come from behind, so be conscious of where your back is.