Title: What Are the Consequences of Fighting in Public?
Headings: What Are the Consequences of Fighting in Public?
What Are the Consequences of Fighting in Public?
Punishment Varies
Assault
Battery
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Content: Plus, fighters also face other charges with more serious consequences, too. Depending on where the fight takes place and whether anyone is hurt, brawlers may be accused of assault or battery. States have slight variations on how they define these two charges but they can be generalized as follows. Assault
Assault is when a person threatens to do harm and has the apparent means to follow through, causing a reasonable fear of imminent danger in another. In the context of a fight, threatening to punch someone sitting across a table in the face, while clenching a fist, may constitute an assault. By contrast, threatening someone with violence, say, across a stadium is probably not assault. The key is imminent threat and the apparent ability to follow through. Raising a fist across the table, as opposed to across a stadium, presents a more imminent threat that would reasonably put another person in fear. Battery
A battery is when the assault goes from imminent threat of harm to an actual touching. Again, each state will define crimes differently and there are slight variations from place to place, but the basic idea is that an unwanted touching is a battery.