Only tangentially so, you protest? Perhaps, perhaps, but related to the previous post nonetheless.
Don’t Wear Your MAGA Hat to the Grocery Store Unless You’re Prepared to Defend Yourself
Trump supporters, I have to interrupt your Election Day fun with a warning: Be careful when you go to the grocery store. No, I’m not talking about the fact that I just paid $8 for a bag of chips and $12 for a pack of bacon yesterday. I’m talking about how your MAGA hat and other pro-Trump gear could lead to you being assaulted.That appears to be what happened in Upstate New York on Friday. In the small village of Bath, just outside of Buffalo, police were called to the scene of a crime at a Tops Friendly Markets. A fight had broken out inside the store.
According to the police report, a Trump supporter was shopping and minding his own business when 60-year-old Robert Yott spotted the guy’s iconic red MAGA hat and lost his mind. Yott allegedly initiated an argument before becoming increasingly aggressive. He then punched the guy repeatedly in the mouth and head, breaking his teeth and bloodying his face. The police called it a “random act of violence,” stating that the two had no history and didn’t even know each other.
Yott was arrested and charged with felony second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal mischief.
Well, THAT certainly makes for a refreshing change from SOP, at any rate. But no “battery,” no “reckless disregard,” no “intent to cause grievous bodily injury”? After all, as Divemedic points out, a single good, solid punch to the noodle can easily kill—and has done, way more than just once—much less “repeated” ones. As anyone who has survived a closed-fist strike to the head will attest, real life is nothing like the movies or TeeWee, wherein actors pick themselves up and saunter nonchalantly away from street brawls featuring flurries of such blows with their hair barely even mussed. Blood, broken teeth, permanent brain damage, possible mortal injury? Surely you jest. Hey, I didn’t see any of that in my copy of the script, Mr Director!
I know of but one suitable response to this revoltin’ but hardly unexpected development.
Note the sidearm, please, and conduct yourselves accordingly, ever mindful of the maxim which advises that t’is better to have and not need than to need and not have. Likewise, Mike’s Iron Law #873 remains in full effect, of course and as always.
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Point taken. Kinda sucks that CSM Plumley supported Harris.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4896472-sam-elliott-endorses-harris/
Broken teeth?
That meets the textbook legal definition of “depriving another of a body part”.
The legal term for that is mayhem, and it’s generally a felony all by itself.
Over political expression?
Hate speech. Second felony.
Head punches?
Deadly force.
Attempted murder.
The @$$hole aggressor in question should be looking at 10-20 years in prison.
He’s lucky he was in a virtual no-issue state, or he could have been legally ventilated by the victim, for no charges.
He probably still should be.
Bonus points if some upstanding citizens dox him, and go after his family too, just because.
Were the injured party kin of mine, feud and vendetta would be making a comeback.
Make FAFO Great Again.
Yep.
He was undercharged because “they” agree with the attack.