Martin Kove’s Shocking Excuse for Assault in Bodycam Footage

Cobra Kai actress Alicia Hannah-Kim was filmed screaming at her co-star Martin Kove in chilling bodycam footage after he bit her during a fan convention last week.

Kove, 78, who plays John Kreese, ignited outrage when he sank his teeth into Hannah-Kim, 37, while attending the Washington State Summer Con in Puyallup, Washington over the weekend.

Hannah-Kim reported to a police officer that Kove bit her so hard it almost drew blood, causing her to scream in pain – and in new footage obtained by DailyMail.com, Kove offered up a bizarre excuse for the assault to the Kim Da-eun actress.

Claiming ‘he bit me for fun’ as a bereft Kove looked on, Hannah-Kim said: ‘You cannot bite people, that is not okay.

‘You have left a mark on my body, which in your 80-year-old brain, you think is play.

‘Sir, were you raised in a ditch? You yelled at me! You had the audacity! How dare you, sir.’

Cobra Kai actress Alicia Hannah-Kim was filmed screaming at her co-star Martin Kove in chilling bodycam footage after he bit her during a fan convention last week

The pair are pictured onscreen together as Kim Da-eun and John Kreese

After Hannah-Kim and her husband, actor Sebastian Roche, confronted Kove after the incident, he reportedly became ‘furious and outraged and visibly angry,’ insisting, ‘he bit me for fun.’

Kove was filmed apologizing for getting ‘angry’ and blaming his actions on being playful with Hannah-Kim due to portraying a male sensei on screen.

Kove said: ‘I tried to say that, and I, you know, to try and find her the moment I arrived in the green room just to say, I’m sorry, darling, I apologize and I didn’t mean to hurt you, you know, because we play all the time, we pop we hit, we do stuff all the time because she’s a female sensei.

‘I’m a male sensei. We have a lot of scenes together and we have a lot of fun.

‘I really apologize. I was just playing because we’re very playful together, and I bit down too hard.’

The officer responded: ‘So it’s emotions. We all have them and sometimes they get the better of us.’

Hannah-Kim showed off faint teeth marks on her upper left bicep and told police: ‘I would like it to go on his record, on the record between me and him, so that he cannot ever do this to me again.’

When officers informed Kove he had committed a crime by biting his co-star, Kove responded that he ‘didn’t interpret the bite as a crime.’

Kim then exploded at Kove, saying: ‘Its not interpreted as a crime! He can take you away in handcuffs . You committed a crime, that’s why we’re here!

Kove was filmed apologizing for getting ‘angry’ and blaming his actions on being playful with Hannah-Kim due to portraying a male sensei on screen

‘See that, those are your teeth you think that’s ok? It’s not okay.

Kove said: ‘I understand that I’m ashamed of my behavior. I’m ashamed that I did that and I would, I would like you to accept my apology and You know me long enough to know that my essence is not a vindictive violent essence at all.

‘If anything, we have just lots of fun together.

Kim said: ‘I came to you in friendship and I extended I had a friendship like, Hey mate, don’t do that. And what you gave me was rage.

‘That’s what I know. That’s why I have rage now because you gave it to me.

‘Do you understand that? Can you deny that when we approached you that it was completely calm and I was like, hey, you just can’t bite me.

‘I didn’t lose my s**t till you got rageful at me, which only gives me rage back.
Kove said: ‘I, I didn’t intend your rage and I’m sorry you picked up on it. It wasn’t, I know what I did.

Kove is informed that Kim is not pressing charges but is warned to never repeat his actions.

Kove was banished from the convention, and recently broke his silence on the incident in a statement to Deadline.

Kove was banished from the convention, and recently broke his silence on the incident in a statement to Deadline

‘I deeply regret and apologize for my actions regarding the incident with Alicia [Hannah-Kim], a genuinely kind and wonderful person who didn’t deserve to be put in this position,’ Kove said in a statement from Jaffe & Company PR & Crisis Management.

‘I’ve always respected her and considered her a highly professional and talented co-worker on Cobra Kai,’ he added, before addressing the incident.

‘I was being playful in the moment but went too far and there is absolutely no excuse for my behavior,’ Kove continued.

‘I regret my actions for which I take full responsibility for what I did, and again I apologize to her and her husband. I’m committed to learning from this and it will never happen again,’ he concluded.

The report from the incident revealed that Kove did apologize to Hannah-Kim and her husband Roche, though now he’s doing so publicly.

Photos were also taken of Hannah-Kim’s arm, which showcased a, ‘very noticeable bite mark on her arm that was already turning blue and bruising.’

Kove was told to leave the convention, and the officer told him never to do something like that again.

Kim played Kim Da-Eun, a powerful South Korean sensei who is also the granddaughter of Kim Sun-Yung, the master who taught initially taught Kove’s character John Kreese in his youth.

The report from the incident revealed that Kove did apologize to Hannah-Kim and her husband Roche, though now he’s doing so publicly.

Kim played Kim Da-Eun, a powerful South Korean sensei who is also the granddaughter of Kim Sun-Yung, the master who taught initially taught Kove’s character John Kreese in his youth

Kove played Cobra Kai sensei John Kreese in the 1984 classic The Karate Kid, and its 1986 and 1989 sequels, The Karate Kid Part II and The Karate Kid Part III.

He reprised that role for Cobra Kai, set 34 years after the events of the original Karate Kid film, which originally aired on YouTube Red before moving to Netflix.

The show enjoyed a strong run spanning six seasons, following Kreese’s old student Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and his rivalry with Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), which ended its run back in February.

Kove will next be seen in Killing Mary Sue with Sean Patrick Flannery, Dermot Mulroney and Jason Mewes, while Hannah-Kim is filming the South Korean TV series The North Star.