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by txinvestigator
Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:11 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Trespassers this weekend
Replies: 50
Views: 11658

KBCraig wrote:
txinvestigator wrote:Just a thought. You had words with the guys and told them to leave. They said make me, so you went and got a gun.

That could easily be taken as threatening.
Trespassers (outnumbering you 2-1) refusing to leave and displaying a hostile attitude is a potentially threatening situation. Retrieving a means of self defense is not threatening, it's prudent.

Making a display of retrieving the gun could be threatening, but the trespassers obviously didn't feel threatened, since they didn't leave until the police told them to (an hour later).
And I disagree. He KNEW they were AC repairmen, according to his post.

There is no shortage of people looking for a reason to get involved in a situation or grab that gun though.
by txinvestigator
Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:03 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Trespassers this weekend
Replies: 50
Views: 11658

Just a thought. You had words with the guys and told them to leave. They said make me, so you went and got a gun.

That could easily be taken as threatening. What were you going to do with the gun? You can't use Deadly Force to prevent trespassing.

You handled this poorly.

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