Teacher arrested for punching student

[BCEagle91]

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<p>I can see that being the case in most situations. But what if the
attacker is someone you know, and they deny attacking you, and you
have just broken their nose? You could end up with some problems you
don’t want to have, which might have been avoided if you’d run away
instead.</p>

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<p>Sometimes you have the option of running away and sometimes you don’t.
In this particular case, the teacher didn’t have that option.</p>

<p>If the attacker is a 250 pound male and the victim is a 100 pound
female, who do you think the police will believe?</p>

<p>Breaking someone’s nose would have more of an effect on someone than
hitting them in the lip - in this case, it appears that the teacher
hit what she could. The attacker was quite a bit taller and it wasn’t
clear that she could hit his nose with force given her position.</p>

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<p>You mischaracterize my position. I never said it was “always wrong” to
punch someone in the nose. What I said is that it is never
automatically the right thing to do.</p>

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<p>Then you are mischaracterizing the positions of everyone else here.</p>

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<p>Rather, it is a very risky thing to do for several reasons, so it
should not be an automatic course of action.</p>

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<p>In this case, it was merely instinctive.</p>

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<p>I’d also like to remind you that I have never not supported this
teacher’s position in this thread.</p>

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<p>Yeah, we got that. Thanks.</p>

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<p>I just think people who think that punching this kid was the “right”
thing to do should reconsider that.</p>

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<p>It was the right thing to do in this case because it worked. The teacher
had more knowledge of the situation and the kid than you or I.</p>

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<p>I have never been punched in the face or punched anyone else in the
face. But I was kidnapped at knifepoint (to my neck) in a car when I
was 17 years old.</p>

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<p>So did you run? Scream for help? Walk out the door? Talk the person down?
Did you assess your options and analyze the situation in a calm, cool way?</p>

[BCEagle91]

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<p>You are too optimistic. There is a legal theory (the “eggshell
skull” theory if I recall correctly) that holds you responsible for
any injury you wrongly inflict on another, whether you intended it
to be severe or not. If it had been determined that the teacher’s
reaction was excessive, and this student had a brain or skull
condition which was exacerbated by the 64-year-old punch rendering
him brain damaged, the teacher would be in a world of trouble. This
is another reason it is risky to <em>assume</em> that a punch in the face
is okay in any given situation.</p>

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<p>There have been any number of cases of self-defense where the attacker
was killed. Planted six-feet under. Forget your stupid eggshell skull
theory. This is self-defense.</p>

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<p>Please elaborate on what it explains. </p>

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<p>You’ve never had to live in the real world.</p>

[Nrdsb4]

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I never said it was “always wrong” to punch someone in the nose. What I said is that it is never automatically the right thing to do.

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<p>Oops, my bad! I find your statement that it is NEVER automatically the right thing to do so ludicrous that you can write 50 posts to your heart’s content (and it seems you are well on your way to doing that) and I will continue to shake my head…</p>

[Bay]

<p>Wow, so my statements are ludicrous, the law is stupid, and I’ve never had to live in the real world because I’ve never been in a fight. Thanks for the enlightening discourse.</p>