Call the police. But I would have a flashlight and a drawn weapon if I were planning to play cop myself.
So I don’t get it. You’re criticizing him for playing cop (not true btw), but yet you are also criticizing him for not playing cop enough by drawing his weapon?
My dad chased a creepy guy out of our neighborhood one night who turned out to be a peeping tom. He probably would have shot him, if he had gotten close enough.... But he at least took off outside to see who it was... Was he or any of the thousands of men who do that all the time “playing cops”?
Then you would probably get arrested for brandishing or some other offense like kidnapping (holding someone against their will with a gun is kidnapping).
He had a flashlight, but TM knocked it out of his hand when he sucker-punched him and broke his nose.
Arrgh—posted before I was finished with my post. The flashlight batteries apparently went dead, and at one point GZ was fiddling around with it, trying to get it to work. That may have been when TM confronted then punched him.
BTW, the Neighborhood Watch guidelines stated that one should never confront the suspicious person, but to call the Non-emergency number. That is pretty much what GZ did. He only got out of his truck after TM took off running. The NEN operator, as he testified in court, didn’t even know GZ was ever in his truck. He thought GZ was outside, on foot, the entire time.