brutally beaten

Listening to Trump's Arizona speech following his meeting in Mexico, very good by the way, not so much a rally this time, more of a policy statement. Near the beginning Trump delivers a litany of names of Americans killed and abused by illegal immigrants, explaining why his (evolving) immigration policies are critical, one of the victims he emphasizes is a ninety year old man brutally beaten and left for dead.

Now, this is unrelated. Bear with me please. I think it is interesting so I'm sharing it. 

I was interpreting the speech as he goes pretending that I'm official interpreter, silly, I know, but there it is. And I do not recall ever seeing the signal for "brutal," and it seems a good sign to know, and I thought a moment about which substitution I have that fits best. I have "really" with a hard facial expression, and "hard," and of course "bad," and "serious" but all of those seemed to fall short and dilute the idea. So I looked at internet suggestions. The sign for "extreme" is replaced. 

Ew, good one. Wish I had thought of that.

I like that. There we are, the perfect combination. This is what makes it so good:

"Extreme" is two index fingers touching and drawn apart into fists, while "beat" and "beat up" (a person) is shown with an upright index finger, the signal for "individual" a sign that falls into a class of signs that is used many other ways, attack, rape, arrested, coerced, force (a person) and so on, pounded back and forth using the other hand shaped into a fist. Index fingers and fists. They work together very well, very smoothly, to show the idea. It looks brutal. I like it. It's cool. So there you go, now you know.

Edit, per Educator in comments: "extreme beat up."