‘I’ll start whacking you, dog’: Man abuses woman, passers-by in Cairns CBD
This is the disturbing moment a man taunts “do something and I’ll whack you dog” to a woman in a busy CBD - before a heroic busker stepped in.
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A man has been filmed intimidating and abusing a woman in front of a crowd watching a busker in the Cairns CBD, while also violently lashing out at members of the public who stepped in to intervene.
Footage posted to Reddit over the weekend showed the man, wearing a white T-shirt, shorts and a bum bag, threatening the woman in the middle of the busy strip, repeatedly wandering away and back towards her as he hurls abuse.
“Do something and I’ll start whacking you, dog,” he says. “I’ll start whacking you, dog. Do something, c**t.”
The man intimidatingly pushes his face into the woman’s as he continues to threaten her.
“Sir, that’s not how you talk to a lady, yeah?” the street performer chimes in over the microphone.
An elderly man with his partner man then approaches in an attempt to defuse the situation.
“What the f**k you going to do, dog?” the man yells, pushing the man backwards causing him to drop his phone.
“Do something, c**t!”
The busker asks onlookers to get the police as the fracas explodes.
The woman prods the man with a bottle, sparking a furious reaction as he begins chasing her.
As another member of the public attempts to hold the man back, he turns and strikes him in the side of the head and attempts to start a fight.
He then turns his attention back to the woman, following her around the square before kicking and punching her.
The man eventually walks away, with a police officer seen arriving a short time later.
“Hey, lady, go straight to the cop shop, just get some help,” the busker tells the woman. “Yes I do think the police will help you. They’re right there. Police, violent individual running that way.”
The user who posted the footage said they had provided the video to police.
“If he’s willing to behave like this in public, imagine what he is capable of behind closed doors,” one commenter wrote.
A Queensland Police spokeswoman told news.com.au, “Police are aware of this matter and investigations are continuing.”
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