Assault is threatening a person. Battery is when you actually hit that person.
Right. When Will Smith wound up and Chris Rock started to flinch, that’s assault even if a security guard had intervened before he landed the slap. So the wind up is assault and the slap is battery. That is why you hear “assault and battery” tied together most of the time.
as·sault /əˈsôlt/ verb make a physical attack on. "he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer"
So, in casual conversation about what Will Smith did, it is wholly acceptable to say he assaulted him.
No. Assault is putting someone in reasonable fear of immediate harm. Battery is actually causing the harm. You can assault someone without touching them, but there must be physical contact for battery. Unless victim is unconscious, there’s usually an assault before the battery.
1) You aren't telling me something I don't know.
2) Different jurisdictions actually treat those words a little bit differently anyway.
3) In a non-legal sense, it is STILL acceptable to call what Will Smith did to Chris Rock, "assault". Again, look at the definition of the word - "make a physical attack on".
Assault is threatening a person. Battery is when you actually hit that person.
Right. When Will Smith wound up and Chris Rock started to flinch, that’s assault even if a security guard had intervened before he landed the slap. So the wind up is assault and the slap is battery. That is why you hear “assault and battery” tied together most of the time.
So, in either case for you pedants, Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock...he just didn't ONLY assault him.
Good freakin' grief. Sally is always on the move to try to prove he's smart when he clearly just isn't. Stop with your nonsense, Sally.
Right. When Will Smith wound up and Chris Rock started to flinch, that’s assault even if a security guard had intervened before he landed the slap. So the wind up is assault and the slap is battery. That is why you hear “assault and battery” tied together most of the time.
So, in either case for you pedants, Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock...he just didn't ONLY assault him.
Good freakin' grief. Sally is always on the move to try to prove he's smart when he clearly just isn't. Stop with your nonsense, Sally.
Actually, you said yourself that Smith sucker slapped Rock, i.e., there was no indication that he was there to harm Rock. No threats were made. He simply walked up to Rock and sucker slapped him. Hence, no crime of assault. Just battery.
If my wife were struggling with a medical condition and someone on stage in front of the world were making fun of it, I would also have a problem with that. Someone mentioned that Rock and Smith have a history, so that may have contributed.
Does she even have it? Ayanna Pressley has it and she's bald as a stone. Smith shaves her head.
All of the Smith's are insane. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she's just lying for attention.
Varying degrees of alopecia. I have no reason to disbelieve her.
2) Different jurisdictions actually treat those words a little bit differently anyway.
3) In a non-legal sense, it is STILL acceptable to call what Will Smith did to Chris Rock, "assault". Again, look at the definition of the word - "make a physical attack on".
That’s the definition of assault and battery in California where this incident took place and pretty much every US jurisdiction that I’m aware of.
In a non-legal sense you can call it a scuffle or fisticuffs or whatever you want but your explanation of the difference in assault and battery was wrong.
Will & Jada are lucky it wasn't Ricky Gervais, who would have really put the needle in. No excuse for Will response.
What I don't understand is why, during Will's acceptance speech, ABC kept either switching the shot to the Williams sister or just having a screen with the OSCAR graphic. What didn't they want us to see? There was still audio.
At that, his wife has cheated multiple times on him, and made him look like a fool publicly. From a psychological perspective, maybe all the angst and the desire to seem like a desirable man came to the fore? Subconsciously, he’s trying to prove to not just his wife, but also himself that he’s a worthy mate.
Why do you people keep saying this? They famously have an OPEN MARRIAGE. She didn't cheat on him. She bumped uglies with other guys as their agreement allows. He's reportedly had sex with a lot of women during their marriage. I don't even follow celebrity news and I know this.
Smith cries about it in interviews... He likes to cheat and cries whenever anyone mentions that his wife has been ridden more than Seattle Slew. He's the typical cuckold. Open marriage is a choice. He's just doing what she tells him to do. He laughed at Rock's joke and then she told him he should pretend to be upset so he went into acting mode and made a fool of himself.
Does she even have it? Ayanna Pressley has it and she's bald as a stone. Smith shaves her head.
All of the Smith's are insane. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she's just lying for attention.
Varying degrees of alopecia. I have no reason to disbelieve her.
I looked into it. She's got as mild a case as it's possible to have. But she's an extremely vain narcissist so she ordered her cuckold to stop laughing an assault a comedian.
Will Smith was as triggered as a Putin lover in the Ukraine thread.
I still don’t understand how he was allowed to assault (batter) someone and then just continue on and accept his award. That is the part that makes zero sense. Who was in charge of this thing?
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