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(05-01-2024, 05:16 PM)bfine32 Wrote: No help required; I just not ready to assign levels of "worse" based on outcome rather than intent.

If the girl JB hit would have fallen and broken her arm/wrist/collarbone...... would that then make it "worse."

Some folks base actions on intent, not outcome. 

Both intended to hit a female; it's just one did it without being directly engaged (slapped) by the female he struck.

So I should have both of my parents arrested for slapping and spanking me when I was a child because I MAY have fallen down and sustained serious injury?

Both are 100% in the wrong, but Burton throws what appears to be an open hand without putting any of his body weight into it, versus Mixon who put everything he had into a closed fist punch.  Mixon was very obviously trying to injure the girl he punched.  Nothing from Burton's body language or the blow he struck suggests the same.  Mixon was way worse.