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.
Yup, again, not defending the guy, and the weapon itself is almost certainly illegal and, even though he didn't seem to try to harm him, that was certainly threatening. Dude should certainly face consequences for his assholery.
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.
Yup, again, not defending the guy, and the weapon itself is almost certainly illegal and, even though he didn't seem to try to harm him, that was certainly threatening. Dude should certainly face consequences for his assholery.