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Are we living in Venezuela now? //
Saint Louis University Lawyer John Amman succinctly sums up their position. The homeowners’ actions “could possibly be classified as assault by putting protesters in fear of their safety…People have a right to threaten force if they are threatened. However, if a group of protesters is walking by a home and not doing anything to the homeowners specifically, then they don’t have the right to threaten lethal force without an imminent threat.”
Let’s get this straight. Amman is concerned that the St. Louis couple who protected their home after a group of 300 BLM members had just entered their private community illegally, may have put members of the mob in fear for their safety. Is he kidding us? //
cogsys
39 minutes ago
The legal analysis is incorrect.
First, he deliberately confabulates the idea of assault as a tort, the civil action, and assault as a criminal action.
Second, the protesters broke into a Gated Community, therefore, TRESPASS has occurred. The presumption shifts, the protesters are no longer in the 'public square', they are in private space.
Further, while these protesters claim they were peaceful, there is plenty of evidence that suggests it doesn't take much to have these 'protests' convert into 'riots.' The Homeowners are permitted to make the assumption there property was dangerous.
If anybody can claim they suffered assault, it is the homeowners. The protesters had already committed a property crime and the homeowners had a reasonable fear they were in harm's way.