2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBlack Lives Matter crashed a Hillary Clinton rally today
It looks like Black Lives Matter have shifted their attention from Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton in an attempt to get the candidates to focus more on issues within the African American community.
http://www.examiner.com/article/black-lives-matter-crash-hillary-clinton-rally-over-ties-to-private-prisons
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Unlike the Sanders rally where they actually verbally and borderline physically assaulted people on stage and were NOT taken away by police --in fact they were given several minutes to talk (20?).
Bizarro World that Sanders gets criticized...
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)They made physical contact while screaming in a threatening manner.
Assault and Battery
Two separate offenses against the person that when used in one expression may be defined as any unlawful and unpermitted touching of another. Assault is an act that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent, harmful, or offensive contact. The act consists of a threat of harm accompanied by an apparent, present ability to carry out the threat. Battery is a harmful or offensive touching of another.
The main distinction between the two offenses is the existence or nonexistence of a touching or contact. While contact is an essential element of battery, there must be an absence of contact for assault. Sometimes assault is defined loosely to include battery.
Assault and battery are offenses in both criminal and Tort Law; therefore, they can give rise to criminal or civil liability. In Criminal Law, an assault may additionally be defined as any attempt to commit a battery.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)What did they do?
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Apparently not!
They didn't disrupt HRC properly!