He smacked the butt of a REPORTER doing a LIVE shot on TV. Go on youtube and look at the all the videos of reporters doing live shots that are bugged by members of the public. I guess we should comb through all those videos and throw them all to the twitter perpetually outraged wolves.
Oaky, I got it - so the accurate plea to the judge, then, is:
I “smacked the butt of a REPORTER doing a LIVE shot on TV”, it’s incumbent on me as a citizen to do that, it’s my civic duty! It’s in the Constitution!!
Yeah, the accurate version should work fine. I expect his atty is going to go with it if this goes to a criminal trial.