One could argue that the boyfriend initiated the violence but that would be the old rules.

With Covid, it can now be argued that the USA shirt guy who deliberately "got closer" initiated the violence.

The ugliness aside, it is an interesting legal case.

That's the new dynamic and latest art form. The drunk-mouthies leading to the bottle over the head were predictable, celebrating an early style of the bar-stupid movement. The whole thing looked racial as well, there's the heady bouquet of a neuvo-protoriot influence. That the place was open at all exposes a classic patina from the gotta-get-outa-the-house eclectic of a baroquen society. The whole Gaudi affair reminiscent and a parody of Poe's standby classic, "Masque of the Red Death".

Unfortunately, I know Arkansas only too well.

still the whole covid thing changes social tension situations significantly.

Thats when everyone jumped in to try to shut it down

I only watched it once and was looking at something else. Since I'm not the attorney on the case I didn't feel it was worth studying it carefully.

Assault does not require physical contact to bring about arrest and charges. Covid has nothing to do with that itself. Coughing and spitting AT or on someone, have always been unlawful acts meriting charges and arrest long before Covid.

I know full well I’ve never seen that video previously, yet I get such strong deja vu watching it.

It sounds a lot like every bar brawl shtick in every western movie with a bar brawl in it.

Sigh.

Ain’t America grand?

but wondering about the bottle involved. Was it a ketchup bottle, a bottle of soy sauce, or perhaps a baby bottle?