A week ago I saw a guy with a hammer chasing after someone.

[LisaM]

The guy he was threatening picked up one of those wooden signs they put up at construction sites and used it to fend him off. Everyone was shouting at them and they were yelling at each other and it was like a chase scene.

Did the guy end up pounding someone with a hammer? No. Did I consider this a violent scenario and was it frightening? Absolutely. Just because no one ends up getting badly hurt doesn't mean thst people aren't threatened.

No, I didn't see chairs being thrown in Nevada. But I saw people picking chairs up and brandishing them at others and screaming. I would have been petrified.

What I saw happened in Occidental Park in Seattle at lunchtime, just FYI.

[UtahLib]

1. Yes, I would feel threatened too.

Also, actions such as that can escalate very quickly when people allow rage to rule them.

[fleabiscuit]

2. Good post LisaM.

[LisaM]

5. Thanks!

The parallel just struck me.

[sheshe2]

3. Yes, I would find that threatening.

Also verbal abuse that was hurled at Boxer and Lange is violence. VAWA. Any questions?

In a marriage the verbal abuse can be as harmful as the physical abuse.

What they did is wrong.

[Walk away]

4. Imagine if you had brought your child with you! Terrifying!

The damage is done. Bernie's supporters looked like animals to the entire country. Those films don't lie and they were played millions and millions of times. Nina Turner can stand on her head and spin around while singing opera and it won't change a thing.
Rachel Maddow can make lame excuses about this being normal political behavior and it means nothing to anyone but Bernie's desperate supporters. The video will continue to be played all through this weekend. Millions of more times.

[shenmue]

6. Screaming and threatening people is not okay

It can lead to a charge of menacing, or other terms for it, depending on where you live.

That shit they pulled in Nevada would have had a ton of people arrested anywhere else.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. Lots of "denial" threads have been

posted about the events in NV. The behavior is moving into full-blown cult mode, I am very sorry to say.

[Her Sister]

8. Well am glad BS supporters are denying physical violence or throwing of chairs because

that means they are saying that physical violence and throwing of chairs would be unacceptable and beyond the pale and criminal and rude, and lacking class, and disgusting, and hateful behaviour, and poor manners, and trashy, and menacing, and not helpful and embarrassing,

SO HAHAHAHAHAHA THEY AGREE WITH US ON THIS!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!

Means that if it were true they would find it embarrassing! Good to know!!!