A curb stomp, also called curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone bite the curb is a form of
assault
An assault is the act of committing physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result in crim ...
in which a victim's mouth is forcefully placed on a
curb and then
stomped from behind, causing severe
injuries and sometimes
death.
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.
* In 2003,
Tacoma, Washington, resident Randall Townsend was murdered by four people. David Nikos Pillatos, Scotty James Butters, and Tristain Lynn Frye beat and kicked Townsend while Kurtis William Monschke delivered the final blow: curb-stomping. Monschke had recently been named head of the Washington chapter of
Volksfront. "Prosecutors said the attack was meant to lift Monschke's status in the
white supremacist movement and to earn Frye a pair of red shoelaces, with the red signifying the drawing of blood."
:* Tristain Lynn Frye was sentenced to 13 years, nine months for
second-degree murder.
:* Scotty James Butters and David Nikos Pillatos pled to
first-degree murder, accepted a plea agreement and testified against Monschke in exchange for being able to request that their imprisonment be no more than approximately 30 years. In June 2004, the
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."
:* 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
A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime) is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership (or perceived membership) of a certain social group or racial demograph ...
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* 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.
Cultural references
In the film ''
American History X'' (1998),
white power skinhead Derek Vinyard curb-stomps Lawrence, a black burglar who had tried to steal his truck.
In ''
The Sopranos'' episode "
The Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian (as well as Islamic and Baha'i) belief that Jesus will return again after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The idea is based on messian ...
" (2007),
New Jersey mafia don
Tony Soprano curb stomps New York mobster
Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano for making lewd comments to
his daughter.
WWE professional wrestler
Seth Rollins used a
curb stomp as his finishing move. Rollins said that he stopped using the move as "from a PR standpoint ... it was too perceptually violent ... I never hurt anyone with it. It was just something we didn't want kids trying on each other". On the January 15, 2018, edition of ''
Monday Night Raw'', Rollins brought the move back, now referred to simply as a "stomp".
''Seth Rollins' Curb Stomp ist zurück in der WWE''
heute.at, 18. Januar 2018
In the Bollywood movie '' Shootout at Lokhandwala'', a scene is depicted where Vivek Oberoi curb stomps a local resident who informs the police about Aslam (Oberoi's friend) who is encountered by the police.
References
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Crime
Assault