Street fighting is the term used to indicate unsanctioned, and most often illegal, bare knuckle fighting in public places. The term can also have the meaning that the people fighting aren’t pro fighters or they significally lack skill. The combatants might use basic punches, kicks, wrestling moves, or improvised techniques, that may include gouging of […]
Street fights caught on tape may have spawned from attempted street crimes, personal disagreements, harassment, bullying, intoxication, drug abuse or mental health problems. They can also be instigated by various gangs that want to control neighborhoods or to show their gangs superiority or authority. Or they can be used as tactics by religious, political or […]
Street gangs can develop along social lines like the ones mentioned earlier. Tough, even within groups that share the same ethnicity, religion, nationality and so on gangs may develop around a common identity that is based on private rituals, territory, gang colors and insignias. These gangs might fight with members of gangs who share the […]
Certain gangs of sports hooligans consider their territory to be in the bleachers of football stadiums or in the near by streets. Gangs of hooligans, no matter if they know each other personally, often gather around colors of their football team and fight against those that are cheering for the opposing team. This hooliganism can […]
People belonging to organized crime gangs are much more likely to be involved in street fights, as these gangs commonly use violence to control their territories and profitable business and to control their own gang members. Prostitutes, gamblers, hustlers, drug dealers and other individuals and organizations involved in semi-illegal illegal activities often become involved in […]
Political conflicts that lead to street fights can happen between and among gangs or groups with rivaling political ideals. These gangs many times see the police as just another enemy to be fought in the streets. Around 1930, there were many street fights between huge crowds of anti-fascists and fascists (especially communists or socialists). In […]
Disputes at work places can escalate into street fights when management tries to stop a strike by bringing in workers breaking the strike across the lines. Around the later nineteenth and earlier twentieth century, factory management would in some cases hire private security guards (like the Pinkerton’s in the USA) or so called hired muscles […]