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Man y'all move fast. I last looked a few hours ago and only saw a couple responses, now we have 2 pages.

So my BIL was stone sober. His GF (not my sister) was tanked. They had been fighting in the house he rents, not her. So he told her to leave, since he was headed out with friends. She went out the front door and he locked it. She went around the backyard screaming up a storm. They have a know pot dealer down the street, so the cops are usually camped a block or two away. So she was not screaming long. Exactly as was translated, cops came in, flashlights on faces screaming, but not screaming anything to identify themselves. So BIL pulls GF into house and locks the door.

The cops claim they witnessed him attempting to strangle her, what they really saw was him reaching up to take the stupid little dog away from her that she had grasped against her chest/neck. She was getting out of hand and he wanted to get the dog away from her before she hurt it.

He has no priors. He was charged with a felony assault. I presume bc the LEO says he saw it. she took photos, called the prosecutors, etc, trying to explain, but you know how that goes.

So the original question I posed is how do you react to people coming onto your property, in the dark, no visible identification (as a result of the dark and their having flashlights). Personally I let the dog after them. She will identify them pretty quick. Granted I;ve never had that kinda run-in with the law.

And Anygun is right on. This is 100% guilty till proven not guilty. The whole thing makes me sick.

davidtx wrote:No uniforms? No badges?

Yes, both. But late at night, no lights in the backyard. Cops had flashlights, but obviously not shining on themselves, rather at their 'perps'.

So last weekend my BIL was having a fight with his GF in the backyard of their house in Houston. Out of the blue a group of folks come rushing in the gate screaming to stop what they are doing. He grabs her and pulls her into the house and locks the door. Turns out it was the cops, who failed to announce who they were as they came through the fence gate. They busted in the back door, took him to the floor and gave him a nice blow to the back of the head.

I understand they got extra hot because in some strange world they 'fled', but in my world he was protecting his GF and himself. I would have had a hard time not drawing a weapon if I had one on me. But of course that would have ended really bad, as cops shoot back when they see a gun.

Hot cops ended up equaling a mis resisting and a fel domestic assault for a verbal only altercation. So mega legal bills coming.

So if somebody came into your backyard yelling, do you shoot? Run? or stay where you are?