Chicago black belt takes down man who allegedly punched 7-Eleven clerk

You know a lot of people will pull out their phones and record and not help a person who decided to jump over tables and turn on a suspected thief when a customer who turns out to be a

black

belt

takes

matters into his own hands. it took place on the north side of town and it was all caught on video casey cronus has the story of the client who intervened when things were going wrong he has over 20 years of jiu-jitsu training and tells us that at that time his instincts were they took over come on no I'm not letting you go man you're harassing those girls and then you saw you swore the 7-

eleven

employee started out as a trip to the store to buy straws for his kids but soon idris redzovic found himself taking down a suspected thief let me go there I'm not going to let you go to the police trump the owner of the supreme jujitsu academy in lincoln park is a third degree

black

belt

in gracie jiu jitsu on thursday night while at the 7-

eleven

in ashland and lawrence.

Redzovic says he saw a man harassing people outside, he approaches me and says: what are you looking at my training? I tell people to step back, with their hands up, don't participate unless they feel safe, but Redzovic says that when the man entered the store and hit an employee who had seen enough, he jumped, the He grabbed it like I do in training here, put them on the floor, smashed him like a pancake and then tied him like a pretzel for 18 minutes. Redzovic live streamed the ordeal pinning the man down until the police arrived and started harassing this guy and then

punched

him and started attacking him and that's when I jumped up and tackled him to the ground later that day, police say the same suspect had robbed a 30-year-old man from the store. christopher cruz was arrested and charged with two misdemeanor counts of robbery and assault sometimes people come to us after something happens to learn self defense why not learn it now retzevic teaches children as young as five his oldest student is 72 years old and you can watch the full 18 minute video of that takedown on our website fox32.com reporting on linkin park casey cronus fox 32

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