Viral footage showed Homan battering Basin before leaning over his limp body and branding him a “Haole,” a pejorative term Polynesian islanders call white people. 6 Homan used his mixed martial arts training to intervene in an altercation involving Hawaii politician Kirill Basin. Hawaii News Now6 Homan and Basin are pictured during the beachside brawl in Hawaii. Homan said he found the knife after Basin allegedly threw it into the ocean, before he turned it over to police. Instagram/@mailemalia3696 Basin appears in a Wailuku courtroom on Tuesday to face two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.