Throwing coffee in someone's face IS assault. Just because you don't think it IS assault does not (Reply #17)

In the discussion thread: Attacks On Mosques And Harassment Of Muslims Skyrocketing In America [View all]

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:16 AM

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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59 replies	Author	Time	Post
Attacks On Mosques And Harassment Of Muslims Skyrocketing In America [View all]	napkinz	Dec 2015	OP
Ohio Boy Threatens To Bring Gun To School To Shoot Muslim Boy He Called A ‘Terrorist’	napkinz	Dec 2015	#1
"Skyrocketing"	maxsolomon	Dec 2015	#2
Triple the average number after mere weeks does indeed appear to fit	LanternWaste	Dec 2015	#3
"no one has actually been attacked/injured"	napkinz	Dec 2015	#4
I didn't know there had been an attack this weekend. I stand corrected.	maxsolomon	Dec 2015	#7
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
Woman Attacks Muslims Praying	napkinz	Dec 2015	#6
That's a Coffee Assault	maxsolomon	Dec 2015	#8
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
Woman charged in East Bay park confrontation with Muslim men	napkinz	Dec 2015	#37
How about smacking a Muslim woman in the face with a heavy beer mug?	The Velveteen Ocelot	Dec 2015	#57
"a man shoved a pregnant Muslim mother’s stroller into her belly"	ScreamingMeemie	Dec 2015	#33
Historically, spreading hatred of a particular group results in attacks by the demented against	pampango	Dec 2015	#5
It's not just "spreading hatred" the demented are reacting against.	maxsolomon	Dec 2015	#10
While attacks on mosques are horrible, the reason isn't RW hate speech	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#9
"So poor, ignorant people are led by their noses by manipulative politicians?"	napkinz	Dec 2015	#11
What is scary? People who plant bombs or folks scared of them?	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#12
ever hear of right-wing extremists?	napkinz	Dec 2015	#15
You're looking at yesterday's stats	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#19
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
It's bigoted to attack Muslims because of Daesh	treestar	Dec 2015	#18
I would never attack Muslims	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#20
No religion is progressive	treestar	Dec 2015	#24
There are 1.6 billion Muslims, more than half of which believe the Sharia should apply	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#32
thank you treestar	napkinz	Dec 2015	#25
^ Par for the course	marmar	Dec 2015	#27
exactly ... justifying the violence against Muslim Americans	napkinz	Dec 2015	#28
Nice soundbite	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#36
Well here we go again. Another era of shame.	jwirr	Dec 2015	#13
what's also shameful ...	napkinz	Dec 2015	#30
Agreed.	jwirr	Dec 2015	#31
The illness can spread where least expected	Person 2713	Dec 2015	#56
One wonders what proxitmately caused this?	AngryAmish	Dec 2015	#14
So you're saying "this sort of mischief" is justified	KamaAina	Dec 2015	#35
There is nothing indicated for California	oberliner	Dec 2015	#22
Thank the ReTHUG politicians and M$Greedia	malaise	Dec 2015	#23
yep ...	napkinz	Dec 2015	#29
It's also informative to make note of what our USA news media refuses to cover	M Kitt	Dec 2015	#40
Muslims are such peaceful and welcoming people. They would be the last to resort of violence...	951-Riverside	Dec 2015	#26
Can we start calling them pogroms?	KamaAina	Dec 2015	#34
"It's beginning to look a lot like ... Kristallnacht."	napkinz	Dec 2015	#38
Someone else is tracking these Anti-Islamic trends? That kind of Compassion is rare these days.	M Kitt	Dec 2015	#39
Thanks for sharing, M Kitt. I think you'll appreciate these two articles ...	napkinz	Dec 2015	#42
The Real Threat To America Is Right Wing Republican Terrorists?	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#43
I think the point is you are more likely to be killed by a radical right-wing nut	napkinz	Dec 2015	#44
Me? No.	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#45
And you seem to be "Invalidating" the threat posed by our own Reicht Wing fundamentalists	M Kitt	Dec 2015	#46
you are mixing two very different issues	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#47
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
No, but again "Conflation" is the driving purpose of that comparison	M Kitt	Dec 2015	#50
You mix so many different issues it's hard to see your point	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#51
Umm, think I'll only address the final statement of that post, per the brief replies you've made	M Kitt	Dec 2015	#54
Accuracy is on my side	Yorktown	Dec 2015	#55
Those were both worth review, thanks.	M Kitt	Dec 2015	#58
Man if those dots	DashOneBravo	Dec 2015	#59

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