ANY assault on a Secret Service agent should draw a heck of a long sentence. If random PITAs are allowed to get away with a slap on the wrist for this sort of thing, they’ll be doing it constantly, diverting Secret Service officers’ attention away from serious threats to the people they’re protecting. It could easily be used as a strategy by serious threats. Incite a bunch of stupid college kids to engage in some “harmless civil disobedience” by doing things like this, distracting officers while the serious threat successfully proceeds with his/her plan, thanks to the help from the unwitting college kids.
You're correct. The "harmless" disobedience is the beard for the more violent and dangerous actions.
But we sure did not see such a sentence give to a certain double minority type person who shoved a cell phone into the chest of LEO in Washington DC did we?
I wonder which of the minority cards kept her out of jail.
All that being said, people in government seem to be in a different class than the rest of us. I had a run in with a US Senator's security thug once when he tried to prevent me from entering a hotel elevator. I told the JBT that the Senator was just a public servant and pushed my way past him and took the elevator to my floor along with the JBT. He looked like a deer in the headlights that a peon like me would dare question the ruling class.