Just one: Did you read the article?
Yes, I read it. I didn’t read into it more than was there.
It may not be the best way, but the article provides no evidence that his actual intentions were different from the one stated (that’s what “guise” would mean).
What do you think he was going to do when he got there? If his daughter was assaulted, he should have gone to the police.
Civilized people try to talk things out before calling the police.
Civilized people try to talk aggravated assault out before calling the police?
“You have sullied my daughter’s honor good chap, and I demand satisfaction!”
I somehow don’t think that’s how it went down, exactly.
Well, we can disagree here, but…I think that’s exactly what happened. Except the language was stronger, and the “good chap” ended up killing the fine gentleman. As often happens in real life, rather than the way it does in the movies.
That’s my point though. I doubt this was an effort to preserve civility from any party.
Move one county south and ICE won’t have that problem. The High Sheriff of Pierce County — who, IIRC, once led a team which included an officer who threatened to “kick the shit out of” a Mexican American who was lying on the ground — is on a collision course with a County Council resolution committing the county to full compliance with the Keep Washington Working Act (which protects the privacy and civil rights of all Washington residents regardless of immigration status). Noted Constitutional law expert (/s) Swank has declared the act “unconstitutional.”
Yeah, that’s where I work, or at least where my primary office is (in Tacoma).
I sometimes worry about conflict with my state agency, who I’m sure assists undocumented people on occasion, and the federal government with people like Swank who are eager to support them. Luckily I haven’t heard of this happening and hope it never does.
I can speculate what was in his mind. I can, based on my personal experiences in life and on the meager information in the article, assign probabilities to various possibilities that I might speculate about. Without more than that, I’m not going to make any conclusions, and I’m not going to spout my speculations as fact. I can live with the uncertainty of not knowing.
If I lived in a civilization where reason and good will predominated, I’d be more inclined to
talk things out before calling the cops (the exception being overtly criminal behavior). Regardless, some people are a ticking timb bomb and both gentle intervention and involving police have drawbacks.
How do you “talk things out” for aggravated assault?
I can’t picture how that conversation would happen.
He’s a parent. When some kid picks on your child at the playground, you go and have a word with their parents. It’s normal parent behavior.
Unfortunately, parents often forget that kids grow up, and that sometimes they get big enough to kill you with a baseball bat.
That’s for bullying behavior on a playground. For aggravated assault?
Gonna say “Nope.” Straight to the authorities.
Caveat: I understand that “aggravated assault” is the charge that the police laid on “the teen” (am I the only one bemused that the report doesn’t specify the gender of the teen who has been charged?), and is unlikely to have been a term used by the dead father when he confronted his daughter’s assailant. Until and unless the details of the fracas between the teens comes to light, I’ll be content to hold my initial comment in abeyance.
Yeah, my oldest daughter is 18. The article doesn’t say how old the daughter was in this case, but since the boy involved in the incident was 17, I assume she is close to the same age.
My youngest daughter is 10. If there was a bullying incident with her, yes I’d go talk to parents about it.
If someone assaulted my oldest daughter I am going to the cops. That is not a “you need to be grounded” sort of offense. That’s a serious crime.
Going to confront someone about this is not parenting, it’s being a vigilante.
I’m kinda sorry that my addendum was posted after your response. I’d appreciate it if you’d read it and let me know if you agree with my entire post.
ETA: including the part where I can’t find wherever the news item explicitly said that the assailant was a boy.
No need to apologize, I amend my posts all the time too. 
I agree that not knowing the details of what allegedly occurred prior to this incident, that maybe the father didn’t see this as being serious enough to warrant law enforcement intervention. But still, with the kids involved being so close to being legally adults, I’m more inclined to leave this to the authorities.
At the start of the article:
A man and a 17-year-old boy are accused of fatally beating a father who tried to confront them about an assault involving his daughter, New Jersey authorities said.
Agreed.
Thanks for that.