A belligerent Woman stopped her car to scream racist buzzwords at a homeowner who showed passive support for Black Lives Matter.
When she tried to get physical, all that he had to defend himself and his home were his wits, his quick feet, and ... a garden Hose. Just watch:
Many of us have been in a car and looked out the window to see something that we don't want to see.
For most of us, the object of our anger is not an extremely popular civil rights slogan that only asks for an end to the extrajudicial murders of Black Americans.
But when one woman drove through an Austin, Texas neighborhood and saw a Black Lives Matter flag, she didn't just become livid -- she acted out.
She stopped her car -- parking it in the middle of the neighborhood street.
At this point, she reportedly began screaming at the resident who had the sign up in his yard.
The blistering tirade of hateful nonsense went on for a reported 30 minutes. Her rant included screeches of "white lives matter."
Some people's knee-jerk reaction to hearing "Black Lives Matter" is to retort with "all lives matter," a phrase invented solely for the purpose of drowning out BLM.
As such, "all lives matter" is something of a racist dogwhistle used to signal malice and prejudice.
But "white lives matter" isn't a dogwhistle. It's just a whistle, and it tells everyone in earshot that you are a white supremacist.
A half-hour racist rant from a lunatic is already a bad thing.
However, as you can see in these gifs, the woman got out of her car, having worked herself into a frenzy that could not be settled with words.
The homeowner stared down the aggressive woman in an intense standoff on his lawn.
"You're on private property, I will spray you," he at one point threatens.
"If you spray me..." she begins menacingly.
To show that he is serious, he holds up the hose ... at which point she charges at him.
To interrupt her charge, the resident unleashes a spray of water.
Interestingly, she never seems to manage to catch him, even though he is the one holding the hose and a garden hose's water pressure isn't enough to stop most humans.
However, between the slick grass and his deft side-stepping, she consistently falls short of reaching him, instead crashing into the grass.
"Please get off my property!" he continues to implore her.
He reminds her: "I will defend myself on my property!"
In many states, a homeeowner would be within their (legal) rights to use actual violence against someone charging at them on their lawn.
Fortunately, this resident used agility and, well, water.
Being drenched with cold tapwater is not fun, but it is certainly humiliating.
Likely, the woman did not realize that the encounter was being filmed by neighbors.
The neighbors were entertained by what was happening, but as the woman began to charge at the man repeatedly, they grew concerned.
Eventually, they decided to contact law enforcement in case the woman presented a danger to their neighbor.
Sometimes, unstable people will not engage in violence. Some erratic behavior, however, like charging at someone and yelling, is a red flag that they would do real physical harm if given the chance.
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