This theme has been interesting, but does seem full of assumptions and not
much legal accuracy.  I am fortunate to live with a Judge so he pulled out
the statutes,(granted we live in Kansas-but he said this definition is
predominant nationally.
KSA 21-3412 Battery. Battery is :
    (a)  Intentionally or recklessly causing bodily harm to another person;
or
    (b)  intentionally causing physical contact with another person when
done in a rude, insulting or angry manner.
    Battery is a class B person misdemeanor.
I find it hard to believe that if a person is seeking your assistance with
breastfeeding and you touch her or her baby, that  that action could ever be
defined or found as battery.  I think the policeman in the one example given
was not speaking from a knowledge base, or else he assumed that the contact
was done in a rude, insulting or angry manner.  By the way my husband find
the courtroom scenes on TV as distressing as we all find the medical shows.
There is a lot of misinformation out there!
Thanks for listening,
Libby Rosen, RN, IBCLC
Topeka, Kansas