If an individual or group won't permit you to leave, and actively impedes your ability to do so, isn't that a crime called "false imprisonment"?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_imprisonment:
"False imprisonment occurs when a person is restricted in their personal movement within any area without justification or consent. Actual physical restraint is not necessary to a false imprisonment case. False imprisonment is a common-law felony and a tort. It applies to private as well as governmental detention."My understanding is that an individual may use force, including deadly force, to act in self defense (or defense of another) to avoid becoming a victim of false imprisonment.
Of course, it might ultimately be necessary to convince some entity—a prosecutor or jury, for instance—that you (or a third party you were acting on behalf of) felt legitimately that life or limb were a risk.
It might be up to a jury to determine whether the action in question was "reasonable" given the circumstances and the frame of mind of the person who acted defensively.
You can call it what you want.
That’s all good & well (maybe) once the case, if there is one, makes its way to court, however many months or years it may take to get there, assuming ability to identify an individual among a crowd known for masking their faces. And recovering what monetary damages from adult kids who reside in Mommy’s basement?
I don’t have time for that crap. Already been there, done that, and we were the ones who ‘won.’ I work for a living, & that’s all I have time or energy for.