Examples of assault include swinging a baseball bat at someone but not hitting them, waving your fist at someone without making contact, and pointing a gun, loaded or not, at someone, while they are aware that you are pointing a gun at them.
MERIKA. Murika? I don't even...
Every state has laws making it illegal to brandish weapons and make threats towards people.
- - - Updated - - -
Regardless, the South was wrong in maintaining the slave trade.
There is simply no basis from which to defend the enslavement of other people as being part of "your way of life".
I thought they were getting 35 years? In any case, if the video is as damning as the article makes it out to be then whatever. Good riddance.