emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
She's charged with touching him. An unwanted touch is assault.She's charged with assault for roughing the person up.
She should have batoned the pervert over the head.
Dear Weatherman2020 and NYcarbineer
What are the rules and standards for security measures vs. policing?
If police have no authority to touch someone unless it is "wanted"
well what about security guards? What is the policy?
Again, it seems these issues of excessive force, harassment or profiling,
and unwarranted handling that becomes "assault" COULD be prevented or reduced
if people "agreed in advance" what the policies, procedures and standards are.
I already know we need this for police, an understanding and training with citizens
of each community so nobody overreacts on either side where it escalates to violence or abuse.
Now with these bathroom policies, as the security guard cited that laws weren't passed yet,
the public and the institutions with facilities open to the public need to agree on policies and procedures.
We already know we have a problem with different standards.
What the communities should have done in the first place
is address this one situation at a time, to give people time to work this out.
We still have to do that now, but at an accelerated rate due to mass publicity and pressure to push policies.
People don't feel they have the time or responsibility to work this out,
but are pushing to pass policies first and see how it plays out afterward.
How does that help? It makes it worse,
where people might have been more sympathetic
before the pressure and bullying was added on top....