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January 13, 2010

Coakley vs. Paparazzi

Just look what Instapundit decided to highlight from Hot Air: "[] Attorney General feel free to commit assault and battery on a reporter" and then again "assault and battery". I watched the video. I've read the reporter's own goddamn account. Where is assault and battery? My human sympathies are entirely on the side of the poor persecuted hyper-powerful unaccountable bureaucrat... individual, against my better judgement. Damn paparazzi!

On the other hand, perhaps it is going to make people think about the "assault and battery" charges treshold being irresponsibly lowered this much. What Democrat thugs of SEIU did to Ken Gladney was assault and battery. This was not.

UPDATE: Predictably, the Republican side attempts to run with it (see Legal Insurrection for a list of links). You know, I hate when the only thing that matters is victory in some elections. Coakley is bad enough as she is. Why don't you guys talk about some serious issues, like her record on the RKBA?

UPDATE: The guy who pushed the reporter aside apologizes (according to some Dem blog anyway).

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1 It looks to me like an overzealous bodyguard shoving someone to the ground and then physically intimidating him after he gets back up. That certainly meets the common-law definition of assault and battery, although it may not be enough to produce criminal charges. Civil charges, on the other hand, may well be appropriate; A&B is a tort as well as a crime, as I understand it.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at January 13, 2010 05:56 PM (fpXGN)

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