Assault is a violation of your right to not be physically attacked. The reason for the attack is generally irrelevant. It doesn't matter if it was something yo

Assault is a violation of your right to not be physically attacked. The reason for the attack is generally irrelevant. It doesn't matter if it was something you said, jealousy induced hatred, road rage, gang initiation, and so on. An officer of the law refusing to enforce the law is incompetence, abuse of authority, or corruption. Executive branch incompetence, even criminal incompetence, is something distinctly different than legislative proscriptions that institutionalize through the power of law unwarranted interference in freedom of expression. There is no need to label all these problems as instances of infringement on freedom of speech in order to argue that they are inappropriate. They are inappropriate all on their own. Mislabeling them just confuses the discussion.