From what I know, Mzbel has been charged with ‘obstructing a police officer from executing a lawful duty and assaulting a police officer’, the latter charge is a serious criminal offence in law which can easily fetch Mzbel some ‘considerable’ months in prison should the court fail to temper Justice with Mercy…
As I mentioned in my previous post, though Assault is a serious criminal offence, it is one of the crimes that we can easily commit in our day to day life. For you to commit an assault in law, all you have to do is intentionally or recklessly cause another to apprehend the application of imminent unlawful force.
What this means is that, you do not have to hit or touch a person to commit an assault. If you intentionally or recklessly act as though you were going to hit someone and the said someone immediately apprehends that you are going to hit him/her, then you have committed an assault…