He walks up to the dude with a spiked knuckle duster, but instead of punching him, he just... casually waves a half-clenched, lazy fist in front of him.
It looks like he just wanted to threaten the guy rather than attack him, but did he really think he was gonna get to threaten the dude with a weapon inches from his face, and not get tackled to the ground?
Yeah, I almost want to say they overcharged him. Dude's still a jackass, but that was barely even an assault outside of the technical sense that he laid a hand on the dude. There didn't seem to be intent to cause serious injury which, from what I could find, is in almost every definition of a second degree assault.
I don't know the legal terms, but this was more like menacing and obstruction, maybe even trespassing depending on how that was all set up, and maybe a weapons charge...probably a weapons charge, considering it's NY. Maybe a lesser assault charge considering he did technically get physical.
I saw this called an attempted assassination. What a bunch of sensationalism. Again, the perpetrator still did a bad thing, and I'm not trying to excuse his behavior. But this wasn't an attempted assassination or anything.
I don't know the legal terms, but this was more like menacing and obstruction, maybe even trespassing depending on how that was all set up, and maybe a weapons charge...probably a weapons charge, considering it's NY. Maybe a lesser assault charge considering he did technically get physical.
Under older criminal statutes, "assault" is the threat to use physical force, and "battery" is the actual use of physical force. Modern statutes will merge them together and have them as separate subsections of one overarching "assault" statute.
From my brief scan, it looked like NY's second degree assault required intent to do physical harm, which didn't really seem to be the case here. If that dude had wanted to harm Zeldin, he had time to get a punch or two in for sure.
The brass knuckles are going to be hard for this guy to explain away. Having said that, it does seem like the guy was there to disrupt the event rather than harm Zeldin.
Yep. About as unclear as the bias in prosecution.Scratch that, journos are still useless scum who couldn't describe the color of an orange correctly. That was barely a fucking attack at all
Rofl, what was this clown trying to do?
He walks up to the dude with a spiked knuckle duster, but instead of punching him, he just... casually waves a half-clenched, lazy fist in front of him.
It looks like he just wanted to threaten the guy rather than attack him, but did he really think he was gonna get to threaten the dude with a weapon inches from his face, and not get tackled to the ground?
Looked like he was trying to take the microphone away and that's why he was saying "you're done".
Still who cares what his intentions were. You don't like the person talking, walk away and don't listen to them.
Pretty low energy attack
He has long covid, okay? It's all he can manage.
Yeah, I almost want to say they overcharged him. Dude's still a jackass, but that was barely even an assault outside of the technical sense that he laid a hand on the dude. There didn't seem to be intent to cause serious injury which, from what I could find, is in almost every definition of a second degree assault.
I don't know the legal terms, but this was more like menacing and obstruction, maybe even trespassing depending on how that was all set up, and maybe a weapons charge...probably a weapons charge, considering it's NY. Maybe a lesser assault charge considering he did technically get physical.
I saw this called an attempted assassination. What a bunch of sensationalism. Again, the perpetrator still did a bad thing, and I'm not trying to excuse his behavior. But this wasn't an attempted assassination or anything.
Under older criminal statutes, "assault" is the threat to use physical force, and "battery" is the actual use of physical force. Modern statutes will merge them together and have them as separate subsections of one overarching "assault" statute.
From my brief scan, it looked like NY's second degree assault required intent to do physical harm, which didn't really seem to be the case here. If that dude had wanted to harm Zeldin, he had time to get a punch or two in for sure.
The brass knuckles are going to be hard for this guy to explain away. Having said that, it does seem like the guy was there to disrupt the event rather than harm Zeldin.