Excellent point Keith. Sometimes being right isn't always that important.Keith B wrote:You answered your own question. Use of force seems unnecessary, so you cannot use threat of force as you would be guilty of escalating the situation. Your best bet is to tell then you are calling the police to take a report, then get into your car and close and lock the door and wait on the officer. Unless they try to break into the vehicle to get you out, you wait.chuck-texas wrote:Thank you for your replies and thanks for your welcomes. What you guys said actually is almost what I thought, but what I am picturing in my mind is a bit different I guess. So, allow me to hypothesize a case, so that I can understand how this would work:
Say there was a very minor bumper-to-bumper accident, nothing serious happened. But the other person got really mad at you. He is not cooling down and he started to push you around. Like you know, poking and yelling at your face, etc. And he does not seem to cool down. However, use of force seems unnecessary, since he does not have a firearm or a knife or something, but he is pushing you around. He is not punching or anything, but you know, terribly angry and you cannot even call cops because of his temper.
What would you do in such a case?
If it was the belligerent guys fault, maybe instead of threatening the use of a firearm we could ask if he knows how many cameras there are at this intersection that would have recorded the whole thing and his current actions?