"defines harassment as striking, shoving, kicking, touching in an offensive manner or subjecting another person to offensive physical contact." Whaddaya call threatening to throw someone in jail for some phony made up probable cause? Yelling? Terroristic threatening? What is the legal term for this? Is punching someone because they deserved it called harassment? 
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Here's the online definition. ha·rass·ment
həˈrasmənt,ˈherəsmənt/
noun
aggressive pressure or intimidation.
"the state also grants us the right to pursue this belief without any form of persecution or harassment"
synonyms:	persecution, intimidation, pressure, force, coercion; informalhassle
"the report cites three separate accusations of harassment"
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So this newspaper's definition is incomplete. Does NOT have to physical assault. Can be verbal, too. Learn something today?