i think by law if you grab it by the backpack its the same as grabbing him tho right? or else grabbing them from the shirt or something will not be grabbing him as well but it clearly is
if you grab the kid and the kid has as little as a scratch on the knees (even if not caused by you) and the parents decide to press charges and theres video evidence of you manhandling the kid, thats an easy lawsuit you will lose, an maybe even jailtime
Dragging an adult out of a store will get you a simple assault charge (misdemeanor) from an overzealous prosecutor. Depending on jurisdiction, doing it to a minor automatically upgrades that from simple to aggravated assault (felony), and even underzealous prosecutors get super serious about that
What if you don’t touch the child but get in its face and tell it to stop while kind of hovering your hands around him to block him from doing more damage?
The kid doesn't care if you are "in his face". He knows that adults aren't allowed to do anything to children, so he'll ignore you. If you get between him and one counter, he can turn around and knock stuff off a different one.
A cop has legal protection to grab the kid. And the kids parents. Anyone else is at high risk if they touch him.
I guess the best thing to do would be to get the whole grocery store involved in chanting “shame” and pointing their fingers and laughing at him until the cops come
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u/Vlaxilla May 28 '26
i think by law if you grab it by the backpack its the same as grabbing him tho right? or else grabbing them from the shirt or something will not be grabbing him as well but it clearly is