If the kid doesn’t want his name known to the congressman, then he has no business stopping him on the street with a gotcha camera running. Sorry, but stopping someone with a camera running is not the same as asking someone for directions to the nearest McDonalds.
The camera running is not neutral.
Wrong. If the Congressman doesn't want to be stopped and asked questions by anonymous people with cameras running, then he shouldn't have become an elected public official. He works for us, period. He has no obligation to answer the question, but as a Congressman he has to expect such things.
Further, what he did was battery, and he should be prosecuted. Hopefully there are some pro bono attorneys out there who would like to challenge this Congressman on his behavior. When he finds out this kids name, it should be because it's on a lawsuit as a plaintiff.
Sorry. . .but he didn't stop him. He asked him a question and got physically attacked. That is the crime. You do know that, right?