After the officer engaged the group, he wrote that “Martin Kove admitted to biting Alicia’s arm and said he did it out of jest and he thought he was being funny, and they play fight all the time on the set of Cobra Kai, and he did not think it was a big deal.” Hannah-Kim in turn, per the officer’s report, explained that Kove had “legitimately caused her pain and that what he had done was illegal.”
The officer informed Kove—who reportedly said “that he did not mean for it to be perceived as illegal, and he was just messing around”—that the incident was being investigated as an assault and he could be “booked into jail or issued a citation for his unprovoked biting and kissing of Alicia” at which time “he began apologizing.”
According to the report, Hannah-Kim informed the officer she did not want to “pursue charges but wished to have a report filed in case this continues.” The officer wrote that he was eventually informed “that Martin Kove was being sent home and would not be at the event any longer due to his behavior.”
