Trump campaign manager arrested for grabbing a reporter, so he hired a lawyer fired for biting a stripper

No, they don’t. Only a LEO may use force at a public event. The campaign manager does not own the property in question. Even a private security service needs to be very careful about grabbing people. I mean, they can, but the person being grabbed can always press charges. It’s best for them to call the police.

The thing is, Trump is running for President. A presidential candidate will attract media, and get questions that they may not want to answer. Questions aren’t a threat.

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Security has the right to manage the crowd. Again, you keep defending this proven liar who left bruises, not minimal force. Minimal force is stepping in front of her to impede her progress.

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Lies and violence.

This must be Tuesday.

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  1. The victim’s bruises.
  2. The suspect’s lies (likely to LEOs as well as on twitter or whatever)
  3. Public challenges to the victim’s credibility: basically smack-talking the system and challenging it to go at him.

Brief guide here to the kind of circumstances where DAs take interest in prosecutions they might otherwise not bother with.

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“Then he hires a lawyer who bit a stripper.”

We require the sordid details. WHERE upon said stripper’s body did the lawyer bite? Did it resemble a shark’s bite? Since this election has devolved to National Enquirer grade, enquiring minds want to know!

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Here you go.

The husband and wife declined to discuss the alleged incident other than to say that Coffey paid $900 for a bottle of champagne and bit the dancer on the arm during a dispute in the club.

“He bit her, but not like a crazy man,” the husband said. “But he did break the skin.”

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Right. A bad reputation is much worse than a bad conscience.

…and it’s a hell of an advantage when you don’t have a conscience distracting you while you deny everything in those all important soundbytes.

There’s a reason these guys always do well and all sound the same. Practice. Lots and lots of practice.

yeah… you older than, say, 5, depending on the child, and you go and be biting someone such that you break the skin and it’s non-consensual biting…you need help. Unless you’re in a raging brawl fight or defending yourself or something, which really seems unlikely despite their surroundings

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Maybe he was angry because he’d just got the bill for the champagne?

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sheeeit, he angry over that Trump style free market system, where a bottle o bubbly that only costs 350$ in a liquor store costs 900$+ in a strip club? He’s an ass then cause that bubbly is all a fizzing with the taste of freedom

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Ah, Florida. Cue the Bugs Bunny gif from @Mindysan33!

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But that isn’t what happened here. So stop pretending it’s a different universe, unless, perhaps, your goal is to sound like a "useful idiot’?

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You have a future in battery.

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That’s just flat out wrong. There are many cases where civilians have the right to use force, public event or no.

Questions aren’t a threat, but his campaign does have the right to manage who gets to ask them at his events.

  1. Some people bruise easily.
  2. Has he said anything untrue that cannot be explained by this being a trivial matter that he immediately forgot?
  3. Smack talk isn’t illegal, even if you dislike the talker.

He was behind her. There is no way he could have stepped in front of her.

You need to go on and figure out what you mean by “Right”, because you’ve got it all wrong conflating a “right” (not a right) to manage who gets to do what with a “right” (not a right) to do them bodily harm in doing so.

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You didn’t read my comments very well.

I said that private security at a public event need to be careful because charges could be filed. I also said it’s in their best interest to call for the police. If I’m at a shopping center and a private security guard decides to grab me and escort me off the property simply because he believes I shouldn’t be there, you bet your ass I’m filing charges. That person is breaking the law. This is completely different than someone trespassing on private property.

Reporters covering a beat have the right to question a presidential candidate, as they’re walking along, unmolested. She was not trespassing, the campaign manager wasn’t a cop (or even security), and Trump did not own the venue.

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Excuse me, pardon me, but say, do you think that Trump had the “right” to simply keep walking and keep his trap shut?

Because if he didn’t, then maybe the lady-grabbing assmunch had a point!

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You’re flat out wrong on the law. If that private security guard tells you to leave and you don’t, they very much do have the right to use reasonable force to make you.

You may be confusing this with private security guards detaining people. That is a bit dangerous for them, as if they cannot prove the detained person committed a crime they can (but almost certainly won’t) be charged. Removing someone who refuses to leave under their own power is a very different thing.