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PP here, I AM a lawyer—a prosecutor actually—and in my state you are 109%, absolutely wrong about the man who touched the child (no charges would be approved on that) and OP would face assault charges, though likely not aggravated. [/quote]

If you are a prosecutor, then you obviously know a lot more about this than I do, but when I look at actual DC code, none of this behavior seems to rise to the definition of what seems to be the relevant law (§ 22–404. Assault or threatened assault in a menacing manner; stalking. https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-404.html), which seems to cover a threat "in a menacing manner" or causing "serious bodily harm" (i.e. requiring medical treatment).   Seems to me that threatening to hold on to someone unless they dance with you is probably not quite threatening "in a menacing manner."  Pushing someone so that they fall but don't require any kind of treatment also doesn't seem to have "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause[d] significant bodily injury to another."

With that in mind, what you're saying is that a state's attorney would NOT charge a drunk guy who grabbed an 11 year old girl and said "I won't let you go unless you dance with me" and kept holding on after she asked him to let her go, but they WOULD take to a jury a case against a father protecting an 11 year old daughter that resulted in no serious bodily harm?  As a prosecutor, how often would you expect to get a unanimous verdict in a case like that?

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