A blow was struck, and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks.
Senator Orrin Hatch seemed shocked when White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who had served as Hatch's chief of staff, was accused by both his ex-wives of punching, kicking and abusing them.
But Stardi never paused to reflect, and small and ill-made as he is, he flung himself with one bound on that big fellow, and began to belabor him with his fists.
Sergeant W. Patrick Swanton of the Waco Police Department said the fight had escalated from fists and feet to chains, clubs and knives, and then guns. He described the crime scene.
The attackers punched and stomped him bloody and broken; ripped off his clothes and personal effects; threatened to rape him; and dragged him into the lift of a flat complex.
In the blue corner: a cunning veteran with a penchant for wrestling. After a whirl of limbs, the challenger is pinned to the floor, elbowed and punched.
All football leagues in Turkey have been suspended after a referee was punched to the ground by a club president following a top flight game on Monday.