I learned some interesting things about the law, today.
For starters, most states, including Connecticut, have a thing called a “Victim’s Compensation Fund” which compensates the victim of a violent crime, such as assault, for a wide variety of related costs. Court fees, cost of travel TO court, missed wages, medical attention needed due to the assault, all of it.
So, when Austin Haughwout tells you he NEEDS you to donate $15,000 to pay for the prosecution fees in his Assault charge against Andrea Mears, and sets his campaign for “flexible funding” so that he keeps every single dollar even if the campaign fails to reach it’s outlandish goal, YOU SHOULD BE SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE THIS IS A SCAM and should be reported to IndieGogo as such. HE’S ALREADY BEING COMPENSATED GENEROUSLY BY THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT FOR ALL OF HIS EXPENSES. ALL OF THEM.
And what, may you ask, is the up-to-$10,000 from the State of Connecticut plus the additional $15,000 he wants from IndieGogo donors supposedly going to pay for, exactly?
Well that’s funny, because I looked up how the law differentiates and punishes various types of assault. So let’s look at the assault of Austin Haughwout by Andrea Mears..
- Victim is a young man in his physical prime.
- Assailant is a decidedly frail and nonthreatening woman.
- Purpose of assault retaliation to a percieved sexual assault.
- Nothing more than minor scrapes caused to the victim.
- Victim even calmly smiles into camera during assault, PROVING A LACK OF SIGNIFICANT INJURY OR EVEN SIGNIFICANT FEAR SUFFERED BY SAID VICTIM
According to the law, the absolute worst this assault could even possibly be convicted of is a “misdemeanor assault” which carries a whopping penalty of… $1000 with probation and anger management.
AUSTIN HAUGHWOUT WANTS UP TO $10,000 FROM THE STATE AND UP TO $15,000 FROM YOU TO SLAP A $1000 PENALTY ON SOME LADY FOR PUTTING HER HAND ON HIS FACE, HOLDING HIS ARM, AND RIPPING HIS SHIRT.
And that’s IF she is even convicted at all!
BONUS ROUND since some of you kiddos didn’t watch the video very carefully, I took the liberty of snagging some screens straight from it:
Eyebrows relaxed, corners of lips turned upwards. Yep, that’s the face of someone in mortal peril.
He holds this huge, shit-eating smirk for at least two seconds, immediately after screaming that she’s assaulting him. Glad to see he’s taking the whole ordeal so seriously.
I did manage to find out what his excuse for not running away was, though. He was busy holding Andrea Mear in a leg-lock for half of the tussle. Technically speaking, this is an assault as well…
Oh, but this next part actually caught me by surprise, because I completely missed it the first time through… While on the ground, Austin fishes into his pocket for a usb cable and uses the end of it to whip Andrea Mear in the face:
So.. she calls the police and asks them to come deal with this guy who she believes has been taking pervy photos of beach-goers. Even though A) he denies it and B) being a pervert isn’t illegal anyways, he attempts to flee before the police arrive.
Andrea pins him to the ground to stop him from escaping, and he immediately traps her in a leg-lock so tight she can’t escape. She INEFFECTUALLY SWATS HIM ON THE FACE TRYING TO GET HIM TO LET GO OF HER AND IN RESPONSE TO THE HARMLESS SWATTING HE STRIKES HER WITH AN IMPROVISED WEAPON, THEN SMIRKS INTO HIS CAMERA.
So, miss Andrea Mear is guilty of falsely believing it illegal to take photo/video of barely-clothed people without their consent, making a citizen’s arrest on someone she thought guilty of a crime who was also fleeing the police, and something ranging from battery to a misdemeanor assault at most.
Austing Haughwout meanwhile is guilty of fleeing from police AND multiple forms of assault more serious than what was done to him, including one committed with an improvised weapon. Technically, I don’t know if Falsely representing the seriousness of a crime is illegal too, but let’s just add that in for consideration, too.
Oh, I’m sorry..
Remind me who the victim and who the criminal was in this case?
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(Actually for a while I suspected it possible that BOTH Andrea AND Austin were perpetrating an act together. The lack of concern by all those passers-by, the lack of emotion or energy whatsoever in the tussle… this could have been a scam to raise the $15,000+ from IndieGogo and bogus use of the Victims’ Compensation Fund and then split it between them, since the maximum criminal fee for Andrea is $1000 and some therapy.
But I pretty much threw that conspiracy theory out the window when I noticed Austin trying to GAUGE HER FUCKING EYE OUT WITH A USB CORD. )
So there you have it. The prosecution, as before, recommends that anyone ignoring this overwhelming evidence kindly go fuck themselves.