Tell me Mr. Lawyer, what grounds did they have to chase this guy in a truck with guns, then to cut him off, after which he ran the other way, then try to block him off again, then pull up alongside them again, and have one of them jump out with a shotgun?
Keep in mind, according to what the two men claimed at the scene, they witness no crime. Although what they did is not legal, even if they had.
Felony aggravated assault (They certainly committed that), false imprisonment, possibly kidnapping, stalking can be a felony in Georgia.
Tell me Mr. Lawyer, what grounds did they have to chase this guy in a truck with guns, then to cut him off, after which he ran the other way, then try to block him off again, then pull up alongside them again, and have one of them jump out with a shotgun?
Keep in mind, according to what the two men claimed at the scene, they witness no crime. Although what they did is not legal, even if they had.
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You throw out crimes and theories that you obviously know nothing about, while suggesting I’m not a lawyer. “Stalking” did not remotely take place here—it requires a course of conduct far more than parking a truck in the road. “Kidnapping” requires an abduction or the “stealing away” of the victim. That did happen. False imprisonment requires one to be “confined” or “detained.” Did not happen—the “victim” charged full speed at a gun with a gun. Aggravated assault does not apply because 1) GA is an “open carry” state so carrying a gun and saying “stop, we want to talk with you” is protected free speech and by the 2nd Amendment; 2) the “victim” was obviously not frightened by the gun—he attacked the younger McMichael because he knew that he was BUSTED.
Finally, for the last time, you DON’T NEED TO WITNESS A CRIME to have probable cause that a crime was committed. Probable cause for arrest/detention has the same standard for police as it does for ordinary citizens. While police are typically authorized to arrest in certain cases that citizens are not allowed to, e.g., domestic assaults that they did not observe, the STANDARD for probable cause is the same. So, for example, if the elder McMichael was instead a local cop patrolling the neighborhood, and he saw a commotion and observed a KNOWN burglary suspect SPRINTING from a KNOWN burglary target, he rolls his window down and says “Stop” and the suspect keeps SPRINTING, that is 100% probable cause that he committed another burglary. To think that a cop couldn’t chase this guy down is laughable. And if a cop could chase him down, a citizen could as well, because probable cause is probable cause.