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In reply to the discussion: Attacks On Mosques And Harassment Of Muslims Skyrocketing In America [View all]CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)17. Throwing coffee in someone's face IS assault. Just because you don't think it IS assault does not
change the fact that it meets the definition of assault.
From lawyers.com
An assault is an intentional act that causes an apprehension or fear of imminent harmful or offensive contact based on a defendant's present ability to do so. The defendant must have the apparent ability to commit the assault, even if he or she is not actually capable of causing an injury. An assault is committed even if the contact never occurs.
http://assault.lawyers.com/assault-and-battery.html
If you want to test your legal theory go up to a cop and throw some coffee in his face. Let us know how that works out, OK.
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Ohio Boy Threatens To Bring Gun To School To Shoot Muslim Boy He Called A ‘Terrorist’
napkinz
Dec 2015
#1
Glad you won't mind hot coffee thrown on you then since it's not a crime in your book
Person 2713
Dec 2015
#52
Reliable motivation for frenetic Anti-Muslim rhetoric? Reicht wing ambitions of Military Conflict
M Kitt
Dec 2015
#41
Throwing coffee in someone's face IS assault. Just because you don't think it IS assault does not
CBGLuthier
Dec 2015
#17
Better yet throw hot coffee in his own face and get back to us on how trivial it was
Person 2713
Dec 2015
#53
How about smacking a Muslim woman in the face with a heavy beer mug?
The Velveteen Ocelot
Dec 2015
#57
Historically, spreading hatred of a particular group results in attacks by the demented against
pampango
Dec 2015
#5
Republicans only recognize acts of terror carried out by followers of radical Islam.
napkinz
Dec 2015
#16
Who cares? What counts is numbers: radical Islam is taking the lead in terrorism.
Yorktown
Dec 2015
#21
There are 1.6 billion Muslims, more than half of which believe the Sharia should apply
Yorktown
Dec 2015
#32
Muslims are such peaceful and welcoming people. They would be the last to resort of violence...
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#26
Someone else is tracking these Anti-Islamic trends? That kind of Compassion is rare these days.
M Kitt
Dec 2015
#39
I think the point is you are more likely to be killed by a radical right-wing nut
napkinz
Dec 2015
#44
And you seem to be "Invalidating" the threat posed by our own Reicht Wing fundamentalists
M Kitt
Dec 2015
#46
So we agree GW and Cheney R owners of a Gigantic Clusterf*ck that the rest of us have inherited
M Kitt
Dec 2015
#48
GW's war did not invent Afghanistan's Talibans or Algeria's GIA which killed half a million
Yorktown
Dec 2015
#49