Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Showed him the light
A security guard is facing assault charges for responding to a punch with a metal flashlight to the head. Says Berkeley police officer Kevin Schofield: "Hitting someone in the head with a metal flashlight is not a reasonable response to being punched."
That's news to me, actually. I could understand "hanging someone upside down while you skin them alive and pull out their fingernails is not a reasonable response to being punched," or even "shooting someone in the face with a shotgun is not a reasonable response to being punched," but "whacking someone on the head with whatever object is handy is not a reasonable response to being punched" seems to use a very narrow definition of "reasonable." What if he isn't trained in unarmed combat? "Sorry, you'll just have to get the crap beaten out of you."
In general, I'm rather unsympathetic to people who attack other people and then get their asses kicked. But maybe that's just me.
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