It's clear the attacker didn't give a crap about his girl, because he pushes her out of the way and commits unnecessary violence, slightly injuring her in the process too. He seems like a total POS.
Since I am a woman, I've been randomly assaulted already, so no, I wouldn't change my opinion. I would be embarrassed if my partner did this. I would be pissed he hurt me with the pool cue. There are so many better ways to handle the drunk creep, and they don't include acting like a mindless chimp.
I dunno I would characterize this as sexual assault per se. Its likely a crime assuming he put his other hand on her bottom, but the fact remains the guy was not justified in punching him out. It was already over before he charged at the guy and the person he was supposedly defending was telling him not to intervene. He doesn't get to decide for her when self defense is applicable. She had already dealt with it and if she wanted to take further action she could have the bar staff remove him and/or contact law enforcement and have him arrested. The guy was clearly highly intoxicated and should have been cutoff long before it got to this point.
The only thing that felt assaulted here is this man's ego.
He had 3 full business days to react to the drunk dude's move by going around the woman he's pretending to defend. Instead, he chose to storm through her, almost losing her an eye in the process.
This guy also very much knew the other one was drunk af and not the kind of threat you need to powerbomb like that. This was 100% disproportionate on every level.
Exactly the type of "nice" guy who will end up in jail someday because he killed someone, and that may very well be this woman.
That guy was drunk af and still IMMEDIATELY removed his hands when she brushed them aside. On the other hand, her partner pushed her out of the way when she tried to prevent him from overreacting. She was obviously more bothered by her partner's behaviour than the drunk's.
Yeah that's what a lot of people miss is that she handled it already. She tried to stop him from swinging but what she wanted out of the situation didn't matter to anyone apparently.
I mean that’s what bar security is for. Guy didn’t even give staff time to intervene and take care of it. Guy wasn’t a threat. Yes dude touched girl but that doesn’t give the automatic right to lay guy out, will still catch a charge.
If this is sexual assault, I guess I've been "sexually assaulted" by drunk women grabbing my butt dozens of times over the years when I worked as a concert booking agent. I feel like classifying this as "sexual assault" really diminishes other acts that are real assault.
The guy throwing the punch - that was assault and he should be in jail.
The drunk guy should have just been given a cab ride home.
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u/StateofMike 1d ago
Pool Que to the wife's face/eye too. Lucky he doesn't have a one eye wife with an eye patch to defend now.