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I would press charges because I do believe that the person being charged would think twice about doing it again. We had a referee assaulted after a hotly contested high school game here last year. Father of a player on the losing team went down a back set of stairs, through the locker room and to the officials room, beat on the door and when the ref in question opened it he came in and took a swing at him, knocking him into a desk. The ref's partner broke it up and game management finally showed up and had the father arrested. He was charged and sentenced this summer to one week in jail and a $500 fine. He never apologized or admitted he was wrong, but he is now a pariah at his son's school and I seriously doubt that he will ever confront a game official again. Why should physically striking an official be any different than striking someone else?
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