(09-23-2017, 09:23 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Have to correct myself here. Please substitute "harrassment" for "assault" WRT the cyclist's actions.
Any touch that follows someone telling you not to touch is harassment. Not sexual harassment; that has additional qualifiers. Just plain old simple harassment.
And the other person need not be in fear.
The outcome is still the same, because there was no reason to believe that what happened was caused by intention or negligence on her part, unless you want to argue that she never should have gone out at all.
If you want to argue that fudging reports constituted corruption, I won't dispute that, because it could probably get Nick fired. Though in the societal panic that would follow the exposure of the existence of wesen getting fired would probably be the least of his worries.
I'm not so sure the girl is as innocent as portrayed. In the case of people who drive while intoxicated and kill a pedestrian, they are still guilty. Most probably didn't intend to kill the pedestrian. But it happened, the pedestrian is dead. The girl says she didn't mean to poison the biker, but just like the intoxicated driver, she did. She couldn't help herself.
I get she's a wesen and that might instill panic, although I really don't see that as a valid reason. Man's been reaching out in space for decades now. To state we'd all turn into frightened putty at another species of human seems, well, as stereotypical as the dead man in this episode.
The best way to frustrate a cyberbully is to ignore him.