My goodness.
What has the world come to?
We are afraid to speak out on our opinions or perceptions, lest we be misunderstood, misrepresented and "reported" for the next "cancelling" hate mob.
A cop can't do his duty without some woke do-gooder shouting that we should defund them. (Wokists, please do good by being constructive).
And a man can't defend his family without getting the wrong kind of a@@-whoopin' that ruins his reputation and legal standing for life.
It's a mess. And yes, I'm probably going to get "reported" for this too: I'm a God-fearing man, and I firmly believe that the above mess is just a symptom of the broken human condition. We have to address the root of the problem - ourselves - and then that will flow over into fixing the world.
If you study history for five minutes, you'll quickly see that mankind (No, wokists, that's not a 'sexist term', buy a dictionary - it refers to humanity collectively, men and women) has tried everything, from religion to stoicism, to no avail.
The only thing that can save us is God himself. Read your Bible and you'll see that He finished that work 2000 years ago through Jesus Christ, and offers to radically and irreversibly change and perfect any who ask Him to, from the inside out.
I think the reason threads like this rouse us is that these sorts of incidents remind us of what a broken lot we humans are. We need to help one another, not break down each other or the systems we have created to help mitigate this sort of thing.
It's super interesting to see that a flashlight in the eyes could even be considered in a legal sense. I get that it's a retina burn and evokes a reaction, but beyond that…
I guess I would understand if it was a laser, or even an LEP, but this was not a bright light.
I call stupidity points on both sides, to be honest.