Posted on 06/29/2018 9:34:32 PM PDT by simpson96
Days after U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters appeared to endorse the harassment of Trump administration officials, one reporter announced she is pressing charges of assault against the California Democrat.
Pro-Trump investigative journalist Laura Loomer wrote a blog post this week describing how she “confronted” Waters over the controversial comments. Loomer included a video of the encounter, during which she now says she was assaulted three times.
“Today I filed a police report in Washington, D.C. to press charges against Congresswoman Maxine Waters for assaulting me,” she wrote on Tuesday in a subsequent blog post on Big League Politics.
She went on to offer her side of the account.
“When I confronted her regarding her call for targeted harassment of Trump administration officials, Ms. Waters assaulted me 3 times,” Loomer wrote. “She hit my hand to try to knock my phone out of my hand, and then she hit me in the face with her papers twice.”
She also described the incident in a followup video published on Tuesday.
“When I was confronting the congresswoman, she assaulted me three times,” Loomer said. “The first time, she swatted my hand with her hand to attempt to knock my phone out of my hand while I was recording her. … The congresswoman then hit me in the face with her papers two separate times and it was all caught on camera.”
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Poor Maxine!!!
Enjoy, Max.
If you read the cali law....all you gotta do is put yourself in a position to strike (and be able to do it) and that can be an assault...ex...old man in wheelchair raises fist at you...no assault...19 year old football player not in wheelchair does same...assault!
Mad Maxine and the Drag Race Queen for the Democrat ticket! [Waters/RuPaul for pres.!] When the campaigns start for 2020, tell the folks at DU! And keep telling them until the election is done. Any at DU who disagree are racist homophobes!
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A touching is “battery”. Assault is the threat .
“Any at DU who disagree are racist homophobes!”
Speaking of DU, I wonder how the freaks over there are holding up after a very wonderful week (for us).
I wonder if a creative attorney could also work "affray" into the charges?
Regards,
probably selling weed at the donut shop
If our President goes for this pick, quite a few of them may be hospitalized again for upward medication adjustments.
...Texas talker gets serious consideration as potential successor to Supreme Court’s Justice Kennedy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3667237/posts
...we need undercover agents to infiltrate... report the latest quackups
We’ll need to consult Blacks Legal Dictionary on that one.
Good. This insane racist needs to be shut up.
One of my higher ups found that out in a pricey way.
Her kid touched another, all innocent but it wound up being considered assault.
Waters could have killed the lady and I still doubt anything would be done.
I like the way You Think!
Where Maxine is from those actions would justify an extremely violent beat-down. She should be grateful the reporter didn’t go there.
Correct.
True that, and many also don't quickly separate civil law from criminal law.
Loomer has filed a criminal complaint in this case, so the controlling law would follow the jurisdiction. DC code is "Whoever unlawfully assaults, or threatens another in a menacing manner" so we have to look to case law for application.
The threshold in civil law also follows the jurisdiction, but generally aims to divide between what society considers acceptable behavior from unacceptable. And complicating that, the same conduct may be socially acceptable in one context, and unacceptable in another. Say for example, an attempt to kiss a person, but being pushed off (unwanted advance). If part of courting, okay. If random, not okay.
The “assault” “battery” differentiation varies depending on the body of law. The distinction you make applies in civil/tort law, but many if not most criminal codes assign the label “assault” to what civil law calls “battery.”
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