01-15-2019, 09:26 AM
(01-15-2019, 02:29 AM)Benton Wrote: From the story linked, it sounds like he interjected himself into some kind of altercation, so I'm not sure if it was ever "his space." His original intent (breaking up some kind of fight) may have been noble, but that ended when he punched someone a third his size. It's not like he was going to his car and got jumped by some hoodlums, he stepped into a situation he was apparently unable to handle.
Yea, basically this. My guess is a judge will empathize with a guy trying to break up a fight, but he really had no business doing it, and he'll get community service. Teachers who break up fights at school deal with this kind of thing all the time, but they can't go off and just knock the kids out. Even in these cases where it is part of their job they have chosen not to get involved and let them fight because the law has not been kind to those who get between fighting children and cause more damage than was reasonably expected during the fight.
