This kid was out of line.

So I guess you’re all for getting punched out by someone who disagrees with your choices?

It still made me laugh.

Mask with his face and a big diaper. I would say that costume would be mocking him.

No, teenagers cannot go around assaulting strangers for any reason. Naples is a very conservative, Red City. I lived in Naples and worked for Collier School District, but the schools will not tolerate this kind of behavior. She will get a suspension.

And hopefully the girl who chose to assault a stranger will suffer the appropriate consequences.

Is this acceptable behavior there?

Seriously?

'Cause that's the country we live in now.

Couldn't it also be taken as saying you think that Trump qualifies as a scary monster?

(Either meaning, I don't support people going around punching other people like that.)

You'd invite her and her family over for dinner later.

Just sayin' ...

and the suspect was a 13 year old boy?

Assault is assault. Period.

...for taking a swing at me, or anyone else. I'm not fond of letting people think they can or should get away with shit like that.

And what on earth is going on in your mind that would think this could possibly lead to a totally weird and inappropriate dinner invitation? (I'm sure you meant that as some kind of joke, not a serious real life response to getting punched, but any humor therein eludes me.)

Which involves the notion that someone would wear a Trump mask because they actually hate Trump ... (ala the Nixon days) ... perhaps you'll figure it out

Oh, wait that was you ... huh ...

Upon review ... it may be that I have an odd perspective here ... as a 6'6" 260lb male, if I was walking around in a Trump mask as a PROTEST, signalling that I hate Trump, and a 14 yo. girl up and punched me ... I'd think she, and likely her family ... were probably pretty damn cool.

The idea that she'd seriously hurt me by taking a swing at me ... is fairly unfathomable.

So this may corrupt my judgement in general ... I'll admit ...

...has NOTHING to do with whether it's OK or not to do it.

Being relatively ineffective and delivering a strong punch certainly doesn't make it "cool".

It now redirects me to a site where posters think it is not only acceptable but humorous to physically assault someone over their Halloween costume.

I am glad that the assailant was charged. I hope the investigation determines if the parents were involved and if so they face charges as well.

Dude's probably getting his face surgically-reconstructed as we speak ...

What determines if an action is a crime?

So I'd a 14 year old boy giggles and grabs the butt of a woman wearing one of the "sexy" costumes we can laugh that off? The victim would need as much reconstructive surgery.

So I'll avoid answering within this particular framing, other than to say there's a reason our law books have a concept known as 'degree', along with protections for minors ... and leave it at that.

maybe they can chime in and clear the muddy waters.

There are degrees of murder and assault though . . .

Should I press charges?

But I strongly believe that punching, or other unwanted physical contact, is not acceptable.

You do not know me, but feel free to assume if it makes you feel better.

Really cannot believe what is posted here sometimes.

See also “having sex with your subordinates in the workplace”.

These same people would be calling for felony charges and a hate crime charge thrown in for good measure.

The situation at hand is the situation at hand ... Hillary is not a fascist criminal ... and the victim was not female.

Different situations ... are different.

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And a 14 to girl punched a man wearing an Obama mask everyone would be losing their shit. There would not be one person defending the girl's action.

Therein lies the hypocrisy because in that situation we we know exactly as much about the mask wearer as we know now. Did he wear the mask of someone he admires, hates, it was the only mask left on the shelf? We do not know.

She did not punch Trump, she punched a stranger who, for all we know, could hate him and thought it was the scariest damn thing he could wear.

By the age of 14 a person should know it is not acceptable to walk up and punch someone.

Amazing people here think it’s all good.

She should have handed him a subpoena instead

decision while being egged on by a group of my peers.

Much less an adult.

I sure as hell wasn’t a perfect kid, but that would just never have happened.

of girlfriends dared the assailant to do it. This is 100% something a group of young teenage brains would think would be a fun joke.