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(6,801 posts)you called it sophies choice.
These are things you said.
And you have yet to explain any real reason she would "fear for her son".
And even if we're to believe your now amended version that she was fearing for him going to jail, how is assault going to fix that? Are people being taught that if you attack a police officer your friends/family get off scot-free?
And I never said she had to choose between the two. The point is that there was NO REASON TO HAVE TO CHOOSE. Neither were in danger. Until she created a situation. It's not like there were nazis kicking in the door saying you must choose which one lives and which one dies (hey that'd make a good book and possibly movie, and opera). We're talking misdemeanor charges, at worst.
You really aren't getting that this isn't a mother/not mother thing. It's a crazy/sane thing. A crazy person sees cops and assumes "I must fight them or my son will die". Not a mother. Or rather, not because she's a mother.