In a shocking, horrifying incident at Shawnee Mission East High School, a Black student was hospitalized after being attacked by a white male student. Despite being the victim, she faces suspension in a case highlighting systemic racism and administrative negligence.
They weren’t “chest bumping”
Closing a gap does not constitute battery
Yes, once you put hands on me, I can punch you in the face. That’s the law. Under the law, and for good reason, her reaction is self defense.
One person’s punch is not necessarily equivalent to another’s, as we saw in this incident. I mean, turns out she needed to have used a more serious form of self defense here. So it’s irrelevant whether it was a shove, a punch, a kick or whatever. He put hands on her first and she got the broken nose.