I would look at smaller startups that might make it easy to just escalate to the CEO if you have a good explanation, rather than having an HR department stop you right away.
EDIT: I thought assault meant physical violence, but not harm while battery meant harm. I was wrong I guess?
Physical violence is battery.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault_and_battery
"Assault refers to the wrong act of causing someone to reasonably fear imminent harm. This means that the fear must be something a reasonable person would foresee as threatening to them. Battery refers to the actual wrong act of physically harming someone."
"The legal definition of assault is an intentional act that gives another person reasonable fear that they'll be physically harmed or offensively touched. No physical contact or injury has to actually occur, but the accused person must have intentionally acted in a way to cause that fear."
https://vindicatelaw.com/assault-vs-battery-are-they-the-sam...
Apparently public urination can overlap with indecent exposure, depending on the situation, and the latter can result in a sex offender registry.
You hear the concept a lot, because it's a cover - "I'm on the sex offenders list, but I was just peeing. Didn't realize it was a playground, whoops!" is different from the true "I raped a girl, and despite the incredibly high burden of proof in that charge I was convicted, and now I have to tell you about it because I moved next door."
Look on the registry yourself - you won't see anyone on there for peeing in public: https://www.nsopw.gov/
What burden of proof?
This is a crime where you can be accused of having committed it several years in the past, with no supporting evidence of any kind, and convicted for no other reason than that you give someone a "rapist" vibe.
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedeta...
Example: "I'm gonna shoot you" is legally assault in my jurisdiction. "Someone should shoot you": not assault.