It is a very grey area and very hard to prove retrospectively as everyones perception of safety is different more often than not the one to strike first is seen as the aggressor irrespective of all the prior name calling.

Can i punch someone if they spit on me. If the spitter was sick or had some kind of virus and tried to spit at you in the eye or any other mucous-related orifice of your body and such was done WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT this can be considered ASSAULT. Yes coughing on someone to expose them to illness is assault. If you punch him just cause youre pissed off by his behavior thats mens rea on your part.

0 found this answer helpful. The simplified answer to this question is. In some cases its even been prosecuted as terrorism because Covid-19 is a biological agentIn other cases its been charged as things like making a terroristic threat or harassment in some cases.

What you did was retaliation and is not excusable. Including scraping off the spit and keeping it for DNA match for the upcoming lawsuit. I love it when they speed up because they see you are trying to change lanes.

I think that the time we spend in traffic is actually quite valuable if we can focus our efforts on something other than our rage. However the situation might not be so cut-and-dry. To be honest not much will happen unless you have some transmittable disease.

If you have other options you cant go straight to violence. As long as nobody involves the police. Spitting on another is not permitted generally speaking.

If someone actually spit in my face I would get on my phone and call the police. To answer this Ill be frank. Then you might get charged with aggravated assault.