It is sooo nice to hear from you again steveinashland,,, its been a long time...
My question,,, Why not keep them, call for the cops, charge them for the crimes?
Well, I didn't handle it 100% properly in 1st place , I should of kept my big mouth shut and just made it to my door and went in and called the cops.
I have a big mouth and I 'stepped in it' when he challenged me with the hand gestures and the 'watch you lookin at white boy' kind of comment on my property, while they are committing a minor offense, so I was lacking in mature wisdom .
I also did not want to possibly hurt Beaver Cleaver and Princess felt marker, those two were just decent aimless kids caught up in the cult of personality of the Frito Bandido gang member.
Ya I know, I cant read the minds of the two other kids and they could have been armed , but I am very very street oriented and can size up people instantly. and even if they were I know I could deal with all three of them.
If all three of them were gang bangers then I would have dealt with it in a much different way, 1) I dam sure would not be challenging all three of them by making the comments I did back at them, because this is graffiti not a crime against a person , 2) If all three would have done the bandana and or hands pointed in there pockets move this would have turned out MUCH different.
1 guy cannot or should not contain 3 teens 'unless' they were all three serious felony suspects who are dangerous, and I am backed up into a corner ( I wasn't ) as they will just run and I have no business showing let alone pointing a gun at a girl with a felt tip marker, she needs to be spanked not drawn down on.
My gun is reserved for direct immanent threats with what I believe ( pointed hand in pocket), or being out numbered by superior force, those three were not superior in force, or being rushed by superior physically fit aggressive person's , or a person with a weapon , a baseball bat sized stick will get you shot if You charge me with it )
There was an escalation of the threat which I met & checked in order to gain superiority and save my life as he placed a mask ( bandana ) over his face level I, ( no need for a gun ) I should have moved quickly to the door and got inside as this is a steel security door ). Level II, he walked 'very' fast up on me Level II ( no gun out on my part ), Level III he jammed his hand into his large over coat and pointed a hard object thru the coat at me Level III > I draw down.
Because the gang member was in the mix, that made it very tenuous.
There are a lot of section 8 welfare apt's behind my shopping center and good kids without fatherly supervision get caught up with bad guys because they all live in these large apartment complexes and this is what I assessed with these three.
I cold have avoided this , yes I could have. I tend to get very righteously indignant when my property is being vandalized .
Altho many times it may be un-wise, none the less I believe there is a Castle Doctrine present and I don't have to back out while witnessing a crime on my property or anywere were I am legal to be present ?
I hope this helps