Nutz
threatening the woman and trying to delete her video, no arguments there.
The problem is the guy was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Let's put two and two together here and presume that charge is related to him "escorting" the trespasser back to his house. Whether or not the gun was unloaded and whether or not he pointed the weapon at the trespasser, he still illegally detained him while possessing a firearm. In Michigan a citizen cannot arrest someone (which he did) for trespassing.
Again, not siding with the cops, they were in the wrong too, but every article states the man was armed and hunting with his son, came across a trespasser, and illegally detained him. It doesn't take Sherlock to deduce that that's where the criminal charges come in.[/QUOTE]
This is nuts. Some thing very similar happened to me 8 years ago. I was legally hunting in a county park and sure enough a dork on a dirt bike comes riding through the field I was hunting in. I stood up so he could see my orange, and he still rode right up to me. I called the cops because it is not lawful to ride in the park. Cops get there and he told them I was threatening him and pointing my unloaded muzzle loader at him and would shoot him if he tried to leave. Cops took my MZ and charged me with harassing him. Judge asked me why didn't I put my 700$ MZ down in the snow? So he would not be so frightened. I told him I should not have to hide my gun when some dumb dork rides through the park. Imaging that using a gun to deer hunt in the gun season. I guess I should have known some dumb dork would show up and be afraid of the big bad man hunting with a gun.
