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allisji wrote:If you tell him to "Freeze" but he turns and runs, then what do you do?

You can't shoot in self-defense if he's running away, right? You could chase him and try to hold him down, but I think that you're best decision is to let him run, then tell the cops which way he went and how they might be able to find and identify him.

If he were to turn and run then yes, I would let him go and let cops handle it from there. As long as his direction of choice was not running straight at me.

But I would never confront someone in this type of situation without being armed. And no, there would be no chasing.

Trespassing on MY property and going through MY things at night... I'd have held him at gunpoint too. I definitely would not have let him just go on his way and if you don't hold him at gunpoint, then you better be well versed in some hand to hand combat. Because he isn't just gonna hang around for the cops to show up.

Had he not had a gun, this guy might just have attacked him on the spot when almost naked guy came out to inspect what's going on. And if he's on drugs, and you don't have a weapon, you might not stand a chance... depending on the drugs he's on.