I’d have snatched that hat off his head so fast after he said it and thrown it outside. I then would calmly told him hats are for outside, which is where his hat now is, if He’d like to retrieve it.
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I thought about it, and may have had I thought I would’ve gotten any support from the ‘father’ with him; unfortunately that man just sat there meekly, looking embarrassed, and probably afraid of the kid.
Removing a hat from some kid’s head could bring an assault charge against you. I know someone who almost got charged by the cops for taking off a teenager’s hat in a movie theater but not otherwise touching him.