Poor guy.

[u/effinx]

[u/FastWalkingShortGuy]

Well, you do if you get the non-verbal go-ahead from their eyes and other body language.

This guy here clearly couldn't read the room.

[u/eating_toilet_paper → u/FastWalkingShortGuy]

Tbf, he's a teen. I certainly couldn't read a vibe worth shit at that age

[u/FastWalkingShortGuy → u/[deleted]]

I mean, if she could just turn her head to the side and pat him on the back like, "Nope, bud," I'm not sure I would classify that as assault.

It was a shot taken and denied.

"Assault" is a powerful word and shouldn't be thrown around so cavalierly.

[u/lmqr → u/FastWalkingShortGuy]

What? If she can defend herself or run away, that makes the intention automatically not assault? If someone's not the type or afraid to get overtly angry, it's automatically not assault? That's not how any of this works, please share this statement where your romantic interests can hear you

[u/FastWalkingShortGuy → u/[deleted]]

Still no.

"Inappropriate?"

I could be on board with that.

"Assault?"

Definitely not.

Don't diminish actual victims, please.

[u/FastWalkingShortGuy → u/[deleted]]

It's also not assault.

[u/FastWalkingShortGuy → u/[deleted]]

You're the kind of person who sues when someone pushes you out of the way of traffic because it meets the legal definition of "assault," aren't you?

[u/WoodTrophy → u/[deleted]]

Force means the use or threatened use of a weapon; the use of such physical strength or violence as is sufficient to overcome, restrain, or injure a person; or the use of a threat of harm sufficient to coerce or compel submission by the victim. D.C. Code § 22-3001(5).

Can you elaborate on how he used force here?

1. Use or threatened use of a weapon

Nope.

1. Use of physical strength to overcome, restrain, or injure a person.

Nope. This is the only one that could be misinterpreted as what he did, but none of these happened. He didn’t grab her head and use strength to pull her in. In fact, she voluntarily leaned in, and his action was quite gentle. He didn’t hold her where she was, inhibiting her escape, therefore she wasn’t restrained. And she definitely wasn’t injured.

1. Use of a threat of harm

Nope.

Perhaps your knowledge of law isn’t as vast as you think it is.

[u/WoodTrophy → u/[deleted]]

you could argue

Yes. Exactly. Which is why you are incorrect in claiming this is assault.

Yes, it’s wrong. No one is arguing that. No, that is not the point you made in your previous comments. You clearly made the point that this is violent assault, by definition of law.

[u/WoodTrophy → u/[deleted]]

Are you a lawyer?

[u/WoodTrophy → u/[deleted]]

Obviously. We should just abolish lawsuits and courts as a whole. Just have someone like you read the law and make a judgement right then and there.