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To: KevinB
So this guy is potentially guilty/liable for criminal and civil assault and battery (as well as false imprisonment for holding the guy against his will).

Not to mention he grabbed the kid's camera/phone out of his hand after he knocked it down from his face. Isn't that the same thing as a purse snatching? What is it called when you grab someone's personal property out of their hand? Robbery? Theft? Burglary?

109 posted on 06/14/2010 11:05:45 AM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: erkyl

“What is it called when you grab someone’s personal property out of their hand?”

Democrat Policy?


122 posted on 06/14/2010 11:11:22 AM PDT by jessduntno (America is now just like Easy Company in Bastogne...and Obama is Lt. Dike. God help us.)
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To: erkyl
What is it called when you grab someone's personal property out of their hand? Robbery? Theft? Burglary?

If you take something from somebody's person with the intent to permanently deprive them thereof, it's either larceny or robbery. It rises to the level of robbery if it's taken using the threat of physical harm or actual physical harm. A pick pocket, for example, would be committing larceny rather than robbery because there is typically no physical harm or threat. He would argue here that he was trying to stop the video rather than take the camera so there was no intent to permanently deprive the kid of it; therefore, there wouldn't be either larceny or robbery. That argument would probably prevail. Perhaps vandalism or intentional destruction of property would stick, however.

143 posted on 06/14/2010 11:24:14 AM PDT by KevinB
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