Why are you here, isn't So, let me ask you a question. Does that give you the right to come up and grab my camera and almost break it? Hey. You assaulted me, buddy. Call your house department. HEY, CALL YOUR HUSBAND. CALL YOUR CALL your husband. Yeah, call your husband. Fat boy. Oh, man. This guy's great. Get in, tubby. Yeah, he's freaking hopped up on freaking meth. Look at his teeth. Yeah, look at you, buddy. You come up and grab me for [ __ ] reason. What's your problem? What did I do to you? What did I do to you? I'm out in public recording and you come up and grab somebody, dude. I'm with myself. And you're about owe me a new camera lens. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Hey, how about this? I go up to you and grab your phone right out of your hand and snatch it. What are you going to do if I do that? What You're going to beat the [ __ ] out of me, right? He grabbed my crap. Yeah, buddy. I got your name, too. You're going to get it You're going to get a nice little talking to with the the police. We got something for Yeah, bring it, buddy. Bring whatever you got. You come back out here and touch me, you won't like it. Oh, look at the cam back. Let me give him a bam. A worker approached a man standing on public property, told him he needed signed authorization to be filmed, physically grabbed his camera, and circled him in what any reasonable person would describe as menacing. Under Section 16-3-600 of the South Carolina Code, a person commits assault and battery in the third degree when they unlawfully injure or offer to injure another person. And as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals explained in United States versus Drummond in 2019, assault encompasses any touching of a person in a rude or angry manner without justification. Grabbing a camera attached to someone's body and twisting it hard enough to nearly break the lens fits squarely within that definition. Joshua's decision to draw his taser in response is also legally defensible. When someone is surrounded, grabbed, and believes they are about to suffer bodily harm, South Carolina law permits a person to take reasonable steps to protect themselves and their property. What the worker did was not a misunderstanding. It was a battery.