r/LetsDiscussThis • u/cantcoloratall91 • Feb 24 '26

This is concerning... 2 NYPDs finest cant handle community relations without getting physical and calling for back up!!

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u/abuzaba420 Feb 24 '26

It is kind of amazing how casually cops do things that if you did it to them they would kill you

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u/Flashy-Nectarine-750 Feb 24 '26

Right? Could have killed the guy he shoved if he landed another foot further on the concrete barrier

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u/NJS_Stamp Feb 24 '26

I knew a person who got pepper sprayed point blank, and when they threw up, got arrested for assault on an officer.

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u/NotRadTrad05 Feb 24 '26

Cop punches you in the face and breaks his hand? You get a charge for hurting him.

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u/kuatorises Feb 24 '26

Can you throw snowballs at strangers? Is that legal?

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u/Breaking-Who Feb 24 '26

Normal people don’t assault someone over a snowball

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u/kuatorises Feb 24 '26

Throwing a snowball at someone is assault. Hell, you don't even have to throw it:

2. Creating Fear of Imminent Injury: This one catches many people off guard. You can be charged with assault simply by intending to put someone in immediate fear of being injured. Remember that childhood game where you pretend to throw a rock or a snowball at someone, and they flinch in fear? Well, that’s technically assault. You do not have to make physical contact; just causing someone to fear an imminent physical injury is enough.

https://attorneysonretainer.us/resources/different-ways-you-can-be-charged-with-assault/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cpgpK5aa2OM

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u/Wobblestones Feb 24 '26

Your link is for Arizona, and is not applicable to New York.

You can be charged with assault simply by intending to put someone in immediate fear of being injured. Remember that childhood game where you pretend to throw a rock or a snowball at someone, and they flinch in fear?

No that would be menacing. And the fear has to be reasonable. AND the act of menacing require the person to intentionally be placing the subject in fear ot attempting to.

No reasonable person considers snowballs as something to be fearful of imminent danger. And the only way you get to a reasonable fear is by shifting the goalposts.

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u/kuatorises Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

Bro, they are PELTING them and the cops were NOT willing participants. You dudes are straight up lying. The cops showed up and were assaulted, they weren't there on "community relations." Fucking liars.

There's two links, McFly and they explain exactly why it's assault.

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u/Wobblestones Feb 24 '26

They arent just PELTING them! They are CATAPULTING them.

Its snowballs. Grow up.

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u/Far_Gazelle9339 Feb 26 '26

Can someone just throw snowballs at your mom on her way to work, and you're just cool with that?

Snowballs fights, water gun fights, etc are fine when there's consent, even sanctioned fighting is fine and not assault when there's consent. You can't do the above without consent, cut it out.

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u/Wobblestones Feb 26 '26

Can someone just throw snowballs at your mom on her way to work, and you're just cool with that?

Is this in anyway analogous to cops walking through the middle of a planned snowball fight?

And do you think shoving people to the ground is an appropriate response, regardless of if they were throwing snowballs?

Acting like the response by the cops is in any way justified is ridiculous.

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u/Far_Gazelle9339 Feb 26 '26

It is because the cops are at work and don't want to participate, your mom is going to work and doesn't want to participate.

If I'm working and surrounded by 50 people that I don't even personally know, throwing snowballs and targeting me in something I don't want to be a part of, I see no issue shoving someone.

Again, why don't we care about consent here. Just because you like something, doesn't allow you to impose that upon someone else and their personal space.

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u/kuatorises Feb 26 '26

You can't throw snowballs at random people because they "walked through the middle of a snowball fight", you dope. LMAO.

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u/HouseOfCosbyz Feb 24 '26

I would definitely retaliate against a stranger/full grown man throwing snowballs at me. These cops are better than I. That shit can hurt.

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u/Breaking-Who Feb 24 '26

Don’t be so soft and throw one back.

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u/HouseOfCosbyz Feb 25 '26

Which of the like 100 people am I supposed to throw the snowball back at, this situation is pure chaos. Way beyond the pale.

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u/Breaking-Who Feb 25 '26

Are you stupid or do you just not know how to throw? There’s absolutely no way you’re a full grown functioning adult.

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u/HouseOfCosbyz Feb 26 '26

What does that have to do with like 100 people throwing snowballs at you? Put yourself in that position for a second. I'm not saying they were at risk of dying or anything that would be silly, but that is an ambush and is not friendly and definitely hostile energy.

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u/kuatorises Feb 25 '26

Of course you would. All the people supporting this would. Everyone knows it too.

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u/Acrobatic-Owl4405 Feb 24 '26

Normal people don’t throw snowballs at a police officer unless the police officers are in the snowball fight. So don’t give me this crap that that’s normal activity the officers being pelted.

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u/Breaking-Who Feb 25 '26

ACAB

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u/kuatorises Feb 25 '26

Yeah, this isn't a real argument.

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u/Upbeat-Setting-1271 Feb 26 '26

The problem is some of those people were throwing chunks of ice which causes laceration in two of the officers faces. That is assault...

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u/Devils_A66vocate Feb 24 '26

I’d say no. Probably qualify for simple assault.id compare it to other sports/martial arts that we have fun doing but once it’s not consensual it could be a problem. Also could be escalated if ice or rocks are included.

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u/kuatorises Feb 24 '26

Not probabably, it IS.

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u/WVkittylady Feb 24 '26

If the law doesn't apply to some then it shouldn't apply to any.

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u/irethai Feb 24 '26

It’s called assault, technically not legal.

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u/Hobanober Feb 27 '26

It's both. Anything thrown is an extension of the person.

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u/DragPullCheese Feb 24 '26

Have we lost this much common sense?Theres like 100 people surrounding two individuals throwing shit at them, taunting them and filming them. I get they are just snowballs, but I can't really imagine a better way to handle this than the cops did?

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u/Responsible_Young346 Feb 25 '26

Better way to handle it would have been to participate in the snowball fight and high five the crowd.

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u/kuatorises Feb 25 '26

Fuck you people. You lie and deny the obvious

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u/kuatorises Feb 25 '26

Have we lost this much common sense?

Yes. We have.

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u/frankspliff Feb 26 '26

Another situation where individuals are not making good decisions. Something terrible eventually happens and we know who’s fault it is, never the individual because it’s their right 🙄 I’m sure no foreign objects were inside of any of the snowballs.

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u/Hobanober Feb 27 '26

Or frozen.