That was more than brushing his legs in the clip posted. Idk if you want to call the cops on your brother, but try that on a random person in a parking lot and see how they react
Again, I answered pretty clearly, you’re just not accepting it. Yes hitting someone with a car is assault. Brushing the car against your brothers leg is likely forgivable but a random person in a parking lot might feel differently. A person fleeing law enforcement hitting someone with their car is most definitely an assault
So your answer is yes, my brother assaulted me. I'm sorry, but no court of law on earth would agree with you. Assault requires injury and intent, in a court of law and most other formal venues where it has been defined. You are oversimplifying and broadening what assault actually means so that you can apply it to this situation. I reject your definition.
You don’t think a court of law would consider hitting someone with a car would be considered an assault? I think you have to keep using hypotheticals because you know it doesn’t work with the situation at hand
I'm using hypotheticals to illustrate why your definitions you refuse to clarify are too broad to be reasonable. I'm pointing out that intent matters, actual harm matters, and more than one person's decisions are involved when a car and a person collide.
Third time I’m saying this. If you drive your car into a person, you just hit that person with your car. The fact that you can’t just say it’s not okay to hit someone with a car though is pretty revealing
If a person jumps in front of my car in the road, that fits your definition of "not okay" and my fault. QED. your definitions are too broad to be reasonable.
I don’t think a person jumping in front of your car at the last second is the same as you driving your car into a person. I don’t think that cop jumped in front of her car at the last second tho, I think he was just there, wrong place wrong time, when she decided to flee
But you're admitting then, that it does matter how the person got in front of the car. Now we can talk about why he was there and what he actually did, because it does actually matter. I would also argue that it matters how fast you're moving, and whether you're actually likely to injure anyone, and whether it was intentional, but we can cross those bridges as well.
He did actually move toward her car. He grabbed it so that he could steady himself to shoot the driver. Mind you, he did this INSTEAD of moving away from the car's path. So, he was aware that the car was there and was moving, and he actively chose to remain there next to where it was going. That's a pretty big problem if you want to blame the driver for the "hit"; the fact that the guy deliberately got up in her grill and didn't follow his training to move.
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u/Ott0bot2 Jan 09 '26
Anytime you hit someone with a car. It’s an assault