altercation

They were both involved in the altercation I mentioned, and that was a family business.

Here in safe, polite Toronto, there was an altercation a few years past on a street crowded with shoppers seeking Boxing Day deals.

At some point Zimmerman exited his car, came face-to-face with Martin, and then they had an altercation.

If you abstract it you could say, how many murders will stop if we lock up anyone who has ever been in a violent altercation?

I can't speak to SF, but in many areas, when the police respond to the physical altercation, they'd be asking me if I want to press charges.

Perhaps you see it as a minuscule altercation because you compare it to rape, fraud, bribery, plagiarism, but is it really "minuscule?

This is not some video artist or smelly person we're talking about here, it's a father on vacation while wearing a prosthetic, getting into an altercation with staff that left his prosthetic damaged.

> Your argument is that because Dr. Mann is an academic he wouldn't sue Google?I think the argument was that he hardly needs an altercation at a McDonalds in 2012 to establish documentation.

In my misspent youth I got into an altercation that escalated to the point of me being charged with attempted manslaughter[1].The police picked me up late on a Friday and I spent the weekend in a Nassau county jail.

But if the same thing were to happen under "more unusual" circumstances suddenly all logic flies out the window and people are more inclined to think those circumstances are somehow intimately related to the altercation.

"When officers went to investigate, there was a physical altercation between police and 26-year-old Gerardo Diego Ayala that ended with a fatal officer-involved shooting.

Given that in any altercation or conflict the establishment and authorities will pretty much always view the black participant with suspicion and the white participant with favor, as experienced on a regular basis in day-to-day life by said driver, I think caution in not putting themselves in such a situation is warranted.

You could read it that way, or you could say that this miniscule altercation between a student and the dean of an Ivy League university, both part of an elite group that knows little about the real struggles the rest of the world faces on a daily basis, has been elevated to something important while its not and it's been given way too much attention than it deserves.