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A 65-year-old man has been charged Monday with forcible touching after Rome police say he slapped a Denny's waitress on the butt as she walked away from his table.
Police say Clarence H. Locke Jr., of 405 N. Levitt St., Rome, smacked the waitress as she walked away from the table where he was sitting about noon Monday at the Denny's Restaurant on James Street in Rome.
The waitress reported it to her manager, who told the man to leave, police said.
I'm becoming very worried about these trumped-up shamings and charges against people for very minor things. Was she injured? Did it interfere with her work? Did she have endless anxiety attacks?
Forcible touching? How vague can you get? That's like when some stranger kindly grabbed me to keep me from falling.
Sometimes a man slaps another man or a woman on the butt quite often, or vice versa. The person who gets slapped might not mind getting slapped whereas another who does get slapped will mind. However, especially in this era of #MeToo, the problem is determining when it becomes assault. If that waitress repeatedly expressed "no" (body language can be tricky with that), then I agree it is assault.
Clarallel, does bring upt a relevant point of defining "forcible touching". A partial problem is that a law might define a specific offense as happening under specific circumstances. Going with Clarell's example, a random stranger grabbing Clarallel from behind to prevent Clarallel from falling would be "assault" or "unwanted touching". Just as a law can be too vague to define what circumstances constitute when an offense happens, it could also be too specific. Finding a middle ground is difficult.
Waiting to see who will be first to defend this behavior...
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Originally Posted by Clarallel
I'm becoming very worried about these trumped-up shamings and charges against people for very minor things. Was she injured? Did it interfere with her work? Did she have endless anxiety attacks?
Forcible touching? How vague can you get? That's like when some stranger kindly grabbed me to keep me from falling.
It took 8 min and just 5 posts, apparently.
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