I don’t press charges if someone is in my face and poking me etc, I just take care of the problem.
I don’t know this whole story, but it’s alarming that so many people these days bring up the “hate crime” terminology. That sure does leave a lot open for interpretation.
The intentional unwanted touching, however, is battery.
This person obviously is expressing a lot of the feelings that have been pent up in all of us for years now.