Action against violent patient

Hello,

I want to file a police report against the parent of a patient I was taking care of. I was on night float and the mother wanted to take her kid AMA, and I explained kids cannot leave AMA. She got irate and shoved me against a wall and threw a punch at me (which missed and just clipped my ear).

Security can very quickly and defused the situation, explained if she acts like that again she will be kicked out, etc.

After thinking about it for a week I’ve decided I want to file a police report so that she can be arrested and charged. We as healthcare staff put up with violence like it’s no big deal. In no other field is this kind of violence tolerated to my knowledge.

Well I told a few of my coresidents including my senior who was on nights with me.

Everyone is discouraging me from doing it, saying she was frustrated and shouldn’t have to go to jail for this. Another told me I’m it’s “super privileged” of me to get the police involved and also heavily implied I’m a racist.

My senior is also telling me it’s probably a hipaa violation to put the mother’s information on a police report since it happened in a healthcare setting.

AITAH? Am I in the wrong here?