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File charges
Any time an official is physically assaulted, charges should be filed. Even if it did not result in injury, criminal charges should be filed at once.
If you don't call law enforcement, that sends a clear message to every hothead in the community that physical abuse of a referee is tolerated. I don't want to be the next ref who gets whacked because somebody else got away with it.
The question of whether this is a man or a woman is utterly meaningless. File the charges.
Look at it another way; what would be the reaction if you showed up at this woman's place of business and physically assaulted her? Think she wouldn't file charges in a heartbeat?
Also, you need to make a formal request to the league's governing body calling for substantial discipline against the guilty party. A full year's suspension, in my mind, should be a minimum.
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