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Raja Jackson -- the son of UFC legend Quinton "Rampage" Jackson -- was arrested on Thursday for brutally beating down a wrestler at an event late last month.

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00:00Big development in a case we told you about, gosh, about a month ago.

00:05This really horrific video of Raja Jackson, who's the son of Rampage Jackson,

00:11in a professional wrestling bout where he snapped.

00:16I don't know how else to describe it.

00:18Obviously, this was a choreographed professional wrestling bout,

00:22but he decided to go off script and just started beating the hell out of his opponent.

00:29He almost killed Psycho Stew.

00:31I mean, let me just say, Psycho Stew would be dead if they didn't pull him off.

00:38I agree with you.

00:39He was almost dead the way it was.

00:41Well, the district attorney here in L.A. agrees.

00:45So, Raja Jackson was arrested for what you just saw there.

00:49That's the new development.

00:51He's been booked for felony battery.

00:54And there are a lot of people, frankly, myself included,

00:58who thought more appropriate would be attempted murder.

01:01Attempted murder.

01:01Because he is a trained fighter.

01:04His hands are deadly weapons.

01:06He knew what he was doing when he was pummeling this guy in the face.

01:10And he was willing to keep doing it until the guy died.

01:15I see your point.

01:16I mean, it's one thing if you hit him two, three times and then got up.

01:2022 times.

01:21Yeah.

01:2222 punches to the face after body slamming him in a way that you wouldn't do in professional wrestling, right?

01:29Correct, yeah.

01:30I mean, you could see that he picked him up.

01:31And normally, you let your back take the brunt of it when you're trying to throw him down.

01:34He put him on his head.

01:35On his head.

01:36And knocked him unconscious.

01:37So, here's the thing.

01:38The DA has not made a decision yet on the case.

01:43So, the DA could do one of three things.

01:47Not charge him at all.

01:50Charge him with the crime for which he was arrested, which is felony battery.

01:54Or up it to attempted murder.

01:58We don't know what the DA is going to do here.

02:01Yeah.

02:01But this is a DA who is...

02:04The DA is not going to...

02:05You can eliminate option number one.

02:08Yeah.

02:08He's not going to drop him.

02:09He's definitely not going to drop him.

02:10I would not be surprised if he charges him with attempted murder.

02:13Now, the problem with it is...

02:14The problem with that is...

02:15You don't know how to overcharge.

02:16Exactly.

02:17Boy, that's a...

02:18It just seems like it might be hard to prove it because now you're talking about getting in the guy's mind, right?

02:25Well, but that's what...

02:26But that's every case.

02:28You have to get in the mind of a criminal.

02:30And sometimes it's more obvious than another.

02:33It's just hard to say premeditation in a...

02:36He was supposed to be in that...

02:38It doesn't have to be premeditation.

02:39It can still be murder if you show intent to kill.

02:43And when you punch 22 times and you are going to keep doing it on an unconscious person and you know the power of your fists, I'm sorry.

02:53But I think they could get a conviction.

02:55Johnny Benitez, Brooklyn, New York.

02:59What he did was absolutely horrible.

03:00And it is kind of commendable, I guess, how his father is holding him accountable.

03:04I've seen even in an interview, the father said that he's not in communication.

03:07Even in the article, it suggested maybe have some jail time, some community service.

03:11Because a lot of the time, parents will have a blind eye when it's with somebody that they care about.

03:15But what we saw, it just seemed like inexcusable on camera.

03:17And to be honest, it kind of looked like the PTSD or the shell shock that some soldiers returning from war go to.

03:24I remember I saw a scene in Peaky Blinders where one of the main characters are attacking in the middle of a boxing match.

03:30And he can't take himself off of this guy.

03:32And this kill switch or just giving somebody the grace after knocking them down just doesn't exist.

03:37And that scene the same way it kind of existed with Roger Jackson.

03:40And I'm wondering what kind of trauma or what could have caused this kind of kill switch to just come on inside of him.

03:46It doesn't make a lot of sense.

03:48I wonder behind the scenes what could have really happened.

03:50Well, it seems like he was pissed off because before that.

03:53There had been a confrontation.

03:55There had been a confrontation.

03:56And you could see they exchanged words.

03:59He was pissed at the guy.

04:00Yeah.

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