Black belt pins Uptown shoplifter until cops arrive: ‘Lemme go, homie!’ outmatched man begs on Facebook livestream

Quote:Christopher Cruz had a bad night.

“Hey, hey homie. Let me go, man, homie,” Cruz, bent like a pretzel, begged as 3rd-degree black belt jiu-jitsu instructor Idriz Redzovic pinned him to the floor of an Uptown convenience store Thursday evening.

It didn’t work.

“He assaulted a 7-Eleven employee, so I jumped in and took him to the ground and did a gift wrap hold, which is taught in the art of Jiu-Jitsu,” Redzovic explains. He teaches the martial art at Supreme Jiu-Jitsu Chicago.

Not only did Redzovic take him down, he also had the wherewithal to set up his camera to record video.

Back when I was bartending at a hotel I helped our overnight security guard take down and hold a guy who took a swing at him. When the cops came they took us aside and said that technically WE committed a crime by holding him down and that he could sue us. They said they would back us up but if that happened again we shouldn't try to restrain the person.

The security guard was like "what the f*** am I here for then"?