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Martin Kove, the histrion known arsenic the main big villain successful the archetypal "Karate Kid" movie, spot 1 of his co-stars from the televised spinoff "Cobra Kai" — and constabulary assemblage camera footage captured her confronting him astir it.
Alicia Hannah-Kim faced disconnected astatine magnitude against Kove extracurricular of a normal past period successful Puyallup, Washington.
"Sir, were you raised successful a ditch?" she is heard saying successful assemblage camera footage. "Is that however radical treated you erstwhile you were a child?"
She told the responding serviceman she had tried to privately archer Kove that the biting was inappropriate behavior, but that helium snapped astatine her.
"Motherf—er, you yelled astatine me," she said.
In video, Kove admitted biting her, apologized for that, and helium insisted that aft the incident, helium tried to cheque connected her, but that Hannah-Kim's hubby intercepted him earlier helium could find her. Both actors had described their moving narration up to this constituent successful affable terms.
"I was conscionable playing due to the fact that we're precise playful together," Kove said, "and I spot down excessively hard and I meant to–"
"She's got a mouth-mark connected her," the serviceman said.
Hannah-Kim declined to inquire for charges, and simply wanted the incidental documented.
The incidental happened June 22 astatine Summer Con astatine the Washington State Fair.
"Alicia showed maine her near limb and pointed retired a precise casual to spot wound people telling maine that she had conscionable been assaulted astatine her booth," constabulary wrote successful the incidental report, which has been reviewed by Law&Crime.
From cops:
Alicia told maine she was going to her booth and tapped Martin Kove connected the enarthrosis to accidental hullo (all the Cobra Kai formed person an country together) and erstwhile Alicia did this Martin Kove abruptly grabbed her limb and spot her precocious limb truthful hard it astir drew blood, and she yelled retired successful pain. Once Martin Kove finished biting her arm, helium grabbed her limb again and began kissing it wherever helium had spot her (Alicia had a precise noticeable wound people connected her limb that was already turning bluish and bruising.) Alicia went and told her handler and her hubby Sebastian Roche, and they went to talk with Martin Kove astir this incidental and erstwhile they did, I was told Martin Kove exploded connected them saying thing to the effect of however situation they face him, and helium did not bash thing wrong. Alicia and Sebastian past came and recovered maine and walked maine implicit to Martin Kove successful the backmost retired of nationalist view. Martin Kove was with his lad and cause for Cobra Kai. I informed everyone that they were being audio and video recorded and that I was investigating an assault. Martin Kove admitted to biting Alicia's limb and said helium did it retired of jest and helium thought helium was being funny, and they play combat each the clip connected the acceptable of Cobra Kai, and helium did not deliberation it was a large deal.
A 2024 intersexual harassment assertion against Kove surfaced successful airy of the biting incident, according to Deadline. He allegedly leered astatine a pistillate Cobra Kai other and made immoderate benignant of verbal statement. Kove denied carnal and affectional misconduct.
"If determination was thing to confess, I would beryllium the archetypal to accidental it," helium told the outlet. "Sony did inquire maine astir the alleged incident, and I was wholly transparent."
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