Not every hockey player can dish it out

[Speedy]

https://www.startribune.com/bloomington-...600047865/

Hockey coach fatally punched following dispute about social distancing in restroom

A St. Paul man was charged Monday with punching and unintentionally killing a Bloomington hockey coach outside a bar following a dispute over social distance rules.

Bloomington Jefferson High School coach Michael G. Ryan, 48, was found by officers outside Herbie's On the Park at 317 Washington St. about 11 p.m. Saturday.

Witnesses told police that Ryan Whisler, 44, punched Ryan, who then fell backward and hit his head on concrete at the bottom of stairs, according to the criminal complaint.

The Ramsey County Attorney's Office charged Whisler with second-degree murder on Monday. The charge said Whisler caused Ryan's death without intent.

The Bloomington Jefferson girls' hockey team asked for prayers for his wife and daughters. "He will be dearly missed by his wife and daughters and the Bloomington hockey community," the team wrote on Twitter.

According to the complaint, Whisler punched a hole into cellophane that was put in place over a urinal to encourage social distancing, then took a cellphone video of himself urinating into it. Ryan called Whisler out on it as they were leaving the bar.

The verbal confrontation was cooling down when the men and their friends got outside, a witness said.

Then Whisler pulled Ryan's mask from his face and grabbed his shirt, the complaint said. Witnesses tried to separate the two, and a friend of Whisler's friend seemed to be directing him away when Whisler punched Ryan in the face, the complaint says.

[deckeda]

Seems to me he did dish it out and got killed for his efforts. How is punching someone over they’re telling you to respect social distancing not a hate crime?

[rjmacs]

deckeda wrote:
Seems to me he did dish it out and got killed for his efforts. How is punching someone over they’re telling you to respect social distancing not a hate crime?

Sane people aren't a protected class.

[Ca Bob]

I suspect that the defense will be that the defendant was legitimately defending himself as he had been attacked once and could reasonably expect that he would be attacked again. Getting your mask ripped off by force during the epidemic is surely a violent offense both physically and in terms of subjecting you to immediate risk of infection, particularly from one of the anti-mask people.

[Numo]

It is an extremely stressful time. I’m wondering if a lot of the over the top reactions we are seeing in stories like this are symptomatic of that fact.

[Speedy]

Ammo wrote:
It is an extremely stressful time. I’m wondering if a lot of the over the top reactions we are seeing in stories like this are symptomatic of that fact.

It’s especially stressful for the Qanon people as they await the resurrection of Pres. Trump which should be any day now.

[AllGold]

Ca Bob wrote:
I suspect that the defense will be that the defendant was legitimately defending himself as he had been attacked once and could reasonably expect that he would be attacked again. Getting your mask ripped off by force during the epidemic is surely a violent offense both physically and in terms of subjecting you to immediate risk of infection, particularly from one of the anti-mask people.

No, the defendant ripped the mask off the victim.

[Don C]

So will those QAnon folks sell all their worldly goods (even guns maybe) and sit on hilltops awaiting the resurrection of Trump? Might be a buying opportunity (although it is possible that their taste in stuff differs from mine).