I've been in knockdown drag outs at several NCO clubs.
Drunk Marines fighting drunk Marines who join forces when MPs show up.
And we were under orders to go light. Broken bones effect deployment.
Sometimes you are better off taking a few blows to the back and you and a partner beating one down, cuffing them and moving on to another a doing the same.
Didn't seem like much teamwork going on.
A line needed to be drawn.
It should have been more than obvious that after the first swing those folks were not going to comply and that they were going to have to be restrained en mass.
SOP for single or multiple suspects should have been transitioned to mob/riot type scenario.
Regroup, draw a lone of demarcation and force them to attract fronaly...circle the wagons, so to speak.
The big cans of OC should have been brought out APAS!!!
