Any tips given on how that could have been better handled from a legal standpoint? Call the cops yourself (best defense is a strong offense)?
Glad to hear it worked out....been there.
You were doing OK until you got to the Redneck part!
Any tips given on how that could have been better handled from a legal standpoint? Call the cops yourself (best defense is a strong offense)?
Glad to hear it worked out....been there.
You were doing OK until you got to the Redneck part!
Glad to hear it worked out....been there.
You were doing OK until you got to the Redneck part!
Any tips given on how that could have been better handled from a legal standpoint? Call the cops yourself (best defense is a strong offense)?
Congratulations on the successful outcome. I agree that calling the police would have probably been in your best interest. By letting the incident go and assuming that it was over, you allowed the other party to frame the incident and be the complainant causing the police to question your version. Luckily, the truth was discovered, but there was nothing to prevent the other driver from "imbellishing" and "setting the tone".
By calling the cops and providing a report, it would have allowed whatever law enforcement agent that handled the "incident" to already have an idea of YOUR side of the story.
I wouldn't necessarily describe it as the "best defense is a strong offense"...(perspective is always a strange animal). The other driver might very well have thought he was a victim. I'm sure he probably wasn't familiar with definitions of aggressor/defender and requirements of carrying. His ignorance means nothing. Allowing him to call the cops and say, "Hey! This guy pulled a gun on me! Here's his license plate number." without any frame of reference previously given to police allows HIM to define the incident regardless of how intentionally or unintentionally accurate, or inaccurate.
You obviously felt threatened enough to draw your firearm. Fortunately, the situation ended without you reaching the threshold to actually use lethal force. However, in my opinion, being the one to report an incident in which I felt threatened would be preferable to waiting for someone else, who's perspective might be different than mine, to define the issue.
Do you imagine his version included him following you into the parking lot? My guess is, this small detail might have been omitted in the other guy's version which may have started, midstream, with "My friends and I were in this parking lot when......."
Otherwise, I'm happy that the outcome ended favorably for you. Thanks for sharing it. Hopefully, it helps others to think about things they would do if faced with a similar situation. It caused me to think about what different choices I would have made. Hope you don't take my input as anything critical. I'm just simply sharing my opinion.
Seams to me a voice recorder would have helped also. The recording of them yelling and acting like a jacka$$ would be a good thing.So is this a type of situation where you should talk to the cops without your lawyer present?
So is this a type of situation where you should talk to the cops without your lawyer present?
Seams to me a voice recorder would have helped also. The recording of them yelling and acting like a jacka$$ would be a good thing.
I'm glade everything turned out as it did.
Were charges brought against these individuals? From your report it sounds like these guys have have no fear even when confronted with possible deadly force. And they most likely have behaved like this before and will most likely do this again to someone else who might not be prepared as you were. If their actions go on without consequence, I fear for someone's wife, daughter, or elderly parents who might accidentally cut them off or take a parking spot they wanted, or god forbid honk at them.
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They were unarmed, however, you were told you should NOT have drawn your weapon? I suppose the fact you got out of your car might be construed as aggressive, however, based on the facts and not "their" version of the incident.
It seems that if they both got out of the vehicle you could have driven away. How does stand your ground apply here? I have my own thoughts on this but am curious to here everyones viewpoint.
Glad it ended well for you.
Had they continued to follow, OP could have led them to a police station, while calling 911 to report the aggressive behavior.