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SWBTATTReg

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2. I hope that these people are charged w/ assault. Spitting at someone constitutes an assault (...

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2020, 12:36 PM

May 2020

HIV, CV, etc. via saliva). The stores should also adopt a policy of never allowing such confrontational people into their stores.

This is one big reason why retail workers on the front lines do not like being classified as 'essential' workers, and why I don't want retail workers to be exposed to such ignorant idiots.

If you going to classify people as 'essential' then give them more protection, such as if assaulted etc., then the charges can be bumped up to a more serious level (a felony vs. not a felony).

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