Touching Brad Pitt

Since when is it a crime to "touch" someone? Is Brad Pitt a demigod, that a person who touches him without permission should be arrested?

http://www.statesman.com/news/ap/entertainment/brad-pitt-attacked-at-maleficent-premiere/nf8ym/

What should happen when you touch a god is this:

And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

Mark 6:56 KJV

Pitt and Jolie are not gods, and the only thing that should be required of people who touch them is to wash their hands afterward.