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In reply to the discussion: Right is right and wrong ain't nowhere...Will Smith should be charged [View all]bigtree
(85,919 posts)...might be prosecutable, and some grandstanding attorney general might pursue it, or Chris Rock.
But most judges would look at the circumstances and take the provocation into account, leaving Smith with a slap (ironically) on the wrist.
The hysterical calls for his arrest are absurd. It was a tiff between acquaintances in an industry event which was basically a workplace. Valued workers engaging in a tiff and a slap don't normally get the cops called on them. They get a reprimand, usually verbal, and are sent back to work (if there's any reason at all about them, and there's no further threat of an argument), a suspension, at best, if the employer values them.
That's what I'd do in that situation, not jump to charges. That's what most people would do, imo, in that position.