Curb stomp

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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]

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Notable incidents

  • 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 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." [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]

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 Tony Soprano curb-stomps New York mobster Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano on the edge of a bar for making lewd comments to his daughter. [13]

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". [14] On the January 15, 2018, edition of Monday Night Raw , Rollins brought the move back, now referred to simply as a "stomp". [15]

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  15. ↑ Seth Rollins' Curb Stomp ist zurück in der WWE, heute.at, 18. Januar 2018
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