Arctish
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Go look it up yourself. Here, I'll help you get started.Show me case law where a person was charged with assault in NY for spraying something like this "in close proximity" to people.You can wave your hands till the cows come home, spraying that stuff in close proximity to other people is still assault.
But then again, Alvin Bragg is a highly political DA. Would not surprise me if he found some "novel legal theory" to charge it while ignoring all the crimes by the anti-Israel crowd.
It's been reported at multiple news sites that 8 students were hospitalized as a result of the attack. Columbia's Provost said "The New York City Police Department is taking the lead role in investigating what appear to have been serious crimes, possibly hate crimes."
Doing something that sends 8 people to the hospital is serious shit. Stop trying to trivialize it.