Curb stomp
A curb stomp, also called curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone bite the curb, is a form of assault or attempted murder in which a victim's jaw is forcefully placed on a curb and then stomped from behind, causing severe injuries and death.[1]
Notable incidents
- In July 2002, 16-year-old German Marinus Schöberl was tortured by young neo-Nazis in an abandoned pigsty in Oberuckersee (in the German state of Brandenburg) and was killed after being curb-stomped. The main perpetrator, who was 17 at the time of the killing, was released after serving eight years in prison.[2]
- In 2003,
- Tristain Lynn Frye was sentenced to 13 years, nine months, for second-degree murder.[5]
- Scotty James Butters and David Nikos Pillatos pled guilty to U.S. Supreme Court ruled "a sentence longer than the standard range could not be ordered by a judge without action by a jury, meaning Butters and Pillatos could face no more than 31 years in prison."[6]
- Kurtis William Monschke was convicted of aggravated first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. The incident has been described as a hate crime.[7]
- Tristain Lynn Frye was sentenced to 13 years, nine months, for
- On August 26, 2011, Dane Hall was curb stomped in an attack outside a gay bar in Salt Lake City, Utah. He lost six teeth and suffered a broken jaw as a result of the attack.[8]
Cultural references
In the film American History X (1998), white power skinhead Derek Vinyard murders Lawrence, a black burglar who had tried to steal his truck, by curb-stomping him.[9][10] The method of killing for both Marinus Schöberl and Randall Townsend appear to have been inspired by this scene.[11][12]
In The Sopranos episode "The Second Coming" (2007), New Jersey mafia boss
Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano on the edge of a bar for making lewd comments to his daughter.[13]
Monday Night Raw, Rollins brought the move back, now referred to simply as a "stomp".[15]
References
- ^ "More arrests in curb stomping death". CBC News. 2000-06-03. Retrieved 2014-05-04.
- ^ "Der Tagesspiegel: Haupttäter des Mordes von Potzlow aus dem Gefängnis entlassen".
- ^ "STATE v. MONSCHKE, No. 31847-4-II (WN. 2006)".
- ^ "KURTIS MONSCHKE AND OTHER RACISTS COMMIT VIOLENT KILLING".
- ^ "Woman sentenced in transient's killing".
- ^ "Court bars move for extra-long sentences in transient stomping death". Associated Press. September 8, 2004.
- ^ "Tacoma murder revisited". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ Pat Reavy (September 1, 2011). "Gay man severely beaten outside club says he was victim of hate crime". Deseret News.
- ^ Matt Barone; Javy Rodriguez; Ross Scarano; Tara Aquino (May 5, 2013). "50 Most Hard-To-Watch scenes in movie history". Complex Pop Culture.
- ^ John Sellers (July 27, 2009). "Curb-Stomp — An Oral History of the Grisly 'American History X' Scene". True Slant. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
- ^ BARKER, By JEFFREY M. (2004-06-02). "White supremacist gets life for killing homeless man". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- ^ "Brutal neo-Nazi murder". The Week. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- ^ Hawkins, Jack. "The Most Brutal Deaths In The Sopranos". Looper.
- ^ Traina, Jimmy. "Seth Rollins talks Brock Lesnar, Johnny Manziel, curb stomp, John Cena and more". Fox Sports. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
- ^ Seth Rollins' Curb Stomp ist zurück in der WWE, heute.at, 18. Januar 2018