Re: 鈥淪aanich police probe bus-stop assault,鈥� Dec. 18.
The incident in question was described as 鈥渁n unprovoked assault.鈥� But what difference does it make here if the attacker was provoked or not?
A sudden assault by a stranger, coming out of nowhere, remains an assault.
Unless punches are exchanged by consent 鈥� as in a fistfight 鈥� then incidents such as this one could more clearly be termed 鈥渁 random assault.鈥�
John Gawthrop
Victoria
