Originally Posted by
Melusine
Someone should have punched that fucker's lights out.
Provocative news tends to do that, but that is not called trolling. And it's not illegal either.... just saying. But grain of salt or not, they are usually in the right, and when they aren't it is a mistake on details, though they have a pronounced bias, as does every news organization.
It is not an unreasonable assumption that a cocksucker punches a camera that it is going to hit the person holding the fucking camera. And he DID irrefutably hit the camera.
What should she have done differently? Drop the camera and tear after him? Shoot him? (that wouldn't have pissed me off any, personally, but.. laws, I know....) I'd say it was a surprising move, and it took her by surprise, so it isn't out of the ordinary at all in my not so humble but correct opinion.
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By law, when you are out in public, you have no expectation of privacy not to be filmed in public or asked questions in public. If this was the case, news reporters everywhere would just be shit out of luck if the verbal phrase "no comment" was replaced with "I want my privacy!" and it was lawful. That right there defeats the purpose of free speech. What a news reporter or anyone else can not do is, continue following someone and asking them more questions when they refuse to answer, threaten others with harm, violence, death or destruction of personal property, and they are not allowed by law to summon a mob on someone for ANY reason. What the reporter did up to that point was not illegal, in fact, nothing she did was against the law, but the cocksucker that struck her camera was in the wrong, and it wouldn't piss me off at all if he got the shit beat out of him for it, because I am an eye and a tooth for an eye sort.