I’m fairly certain one cannot go up to another and randomly hit them, unprovoked as they walk to their car. Its got to be a type of assault or battery.
“Its got to be a type of assault or battery.”
I believe that even just accosting someone, saying “go back to India you bum!” or whatever is assault, and if you strike them that is battery.
So yeah, free speech and all, you can calmly stand somewhere and say “I think all Indians should be thrown out of the country” but you can’t be charging up to Indian people and screaming at them.
Of course, if you’re an insane, drug addicted, homeless person, you CAN do all those things!
One lady just walks up to four others and lays into them? Even with alcohol involved, I doubt that’s how it started.