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• danderino 10y ago
  Oh cmon. Going by literal definitions, an officer tackling a man out of the way of a bus would technically be a "physical assault". But if your headline was "Officer physically assaults man", people are going to have a much different impression. Tell me whats wrong with pulling a man out of his seat when you are ordered to remove someone from a seat and that person refuses to leave peacefully.