I must admit, last night was the first, and very last time I will ever deal with the Guvernment. This high volume club is wrought with disorganization and is staffed with crude and abrasive ogres.
The bouncer denied entrance to a friend of mine - a decision I respected as I began to venture into the front entry way to round up three of our crowd that had already entered. My friend waited serenely on the other side of the line. The bouncer had asked him to leave, in a very non-specific manner. I looked at the bouncer and told him that before anyone left, I needed to go and get the others already inside.
My friend leaned in to talk with his sister who was also there. The bouncer grabbed his shirt, and repeatedly shoved him backwards along the line exclaiming “I told you to go!”, my friend simultaneously requesting that the bouncer not touch him, and backing away.
The line was thirty feet long, and by the time the bouncer finally let go of him, he was out in the parking lot. All the while, his sister was in toe protesting “Don’t touch my brother!”
He told her to “back off bitch.”
At this point, my blood pressure had risen dramatically. This guy thinks too much of himself - a powertrip for the socially impotent.
Soon after I was approached by a guy that appeared to have a better cool on the situation - who also seemed to run the show so to speak with regards to security. In synopsis of the events that transpired, I acquired his contact information and told him we’d be in touch. For not only were we embarrassed after having been promised line bypass by the limo partnership which we arrived in, but the bouncer had ripped my friend’s shirt along the front seam where the button holes are.
Assault is roughly defined as physical contact without consent. In context of a public function, a bouncer may only use physical contact to remove an individual when the individual poses an immediate and physical danger to the other individuals present. In which case the bouncer has a civil duty, and nothing more, to do the best that he can to diffuse the situation. This bouncer undoubtedly has no proper public welfare training and was probably clueless as to how to deal with such a situation.
Now I’m not a legal expert, but from all accounts, my friend was assaulted. There will be accountability.
It’s not rocket science to realize that a rip along a seam only arises when it is pulled on with sufficient force. A rip along the seam in the front of the shirt, roughly at the level of the sternum, can have only one of two meanings:
The first possibility is that my friend was actively backing away from the bouncer - providing enough tension on the seam to rip it. In which case, the bouncer should not have had any physical contact with him to begin with. In concert with his exclamation “Don’t touch me!”, it can be concluded that he was assaulted.
The second possibility is that my friend was being pulled toward the bouncer, once again providing enough tension on the seam to rip it. This is not the way an individual is removed, especially when the individual must back up to exit. In concert with his exclamation “Don’t touch me!”, it can be concluded that he was assaulted.
Ultimately someone from the Guvernment will be held accountable. The club as an entity will either replace the damaged shirt or the individual bouncer will be held accountable for the shirt with an impending assault charge. Justice will he had, especially if it goes through the government.
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