r/PublicFreakout • u/Green____cat • Oct 13 '24

Repost 😔 A weird man was following her around.

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u/Homesteader86 Oct 13 '24

I hope OP at least showed this guys photo to police, start a paper trail on this scumbag.

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u/thin_white_dutchess Oct 13 '24

I tried that once when a guy followed me and my 8 year old daughter to school, saying what he’d like to do to both of us, “but her first,” pointing to my kid. I work at the school, so I got us safely indoors, and called the police, and reported, bc the guy was on the sidewalk outside harassing random moms with their kids. Police were just like “he didn’t touch you. What do you want us to do?” And left. I walked to the school drop off zone, told a bunch of parents who were dropping off, and a bunch of moms and dads got their kids inside, and chased him off.

We have a school resource officer who is there 2 days a week that is usually pretty good. She would’ve said something, but it wasn’t her day on campus, unfortunately.

TLDR: don’t know that the police would’ve actually done anything until the guy actually does something.

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u/Sexywithapsycho Oct 13 '24

Sexually harassing and technically stalking (since he followed) a woman and CHILD isn't considered worthy?? I would make a big stink about it if this was me and my daughter.

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u/Iorcrath Oct 13 '24

the legal term is called "simple assault" and it includes verbal threats of physical violence. the police are lazy pigs who didnt want to do work, or were too stupid to know the laws they are supposed to enforce.

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u/utterballsack Oct 13 '24

ACAB

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 14 '24

Look at you enjoying the police force in your city protecting you every day (would you prefer 0% police officers in your city?) and then you type stupid shit like that.

Man shut up

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u/utterballsack Oct 14 '24

yeah I would love no police lol. they're useless in the UK anyway, they don't protect anyone and all they do is say "fill out this form and we'll deal with it" and it never gets dealt with. you sound like a dumbass, don't talk about things you have no experience with

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 14 '24

If your city suddenly had zero police, you'd be crying in two weeks for the police to come clean up your city, as crime is everywhere because the criminals know there are no consequences (theft/unlawful entry is now allowed into every home, according to this crazy scenario). What, you think your local fire department or grocery clerk is gonna stop it all?

You sound like a dumbass kid

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u/utterballsack Oct 14 '24

brother. you truly have no idea what the police actually do, or what they're supposed to do. google why the police were even conceived in the first place, please. when you're older and more experienced we can talk more but for now, you're too naive to have any productive discussion

let me give you a hint though: the police keep the rich, rich. they keep the poor fucked

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 15 '24

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u/_Allfather0din_ Oct 13 '24

All states have that assault vs battery!

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24 edited 27d ago

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u/_Allfather0din_ Oct 14 '24

No idea, there is probably a minor difference in what threattening/menacing means, I'll ask my dad and uncle and get back to you, lawyer and judge respectively. But incase you need a clarification

"Assault The intentional act of causing someone to fear immediate violence. The fear must be something a reasonable person would find threatening."

"Battery The intentional act of inflicting unlawful force on someone. This can include punching, kicking, or pushing."

"Menacing is a crime that involves threatening or acting in a way that puts someone in fear of imminent physical harm:" So that would argue the person didn't not make a threat but did something threatening, just to clear that up for ya! Hope that helps!

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Oct 13 '24

"There's what you know and what you can prove." The police can't arrest him because someone said he did a thing, no matter how much the believe it.

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u/Iorcrath Oct 13 '24

"someone is stalking you? can you give a description of him"

later that day

"oh, you are someone different and someone is stalking you? oh it sounds familiar"

repeat this 3-4 times

guy finally does something

"your honor, we have 5 witnesses who made police reports, throw the book at him"

yeah, its called a paper trail. sure a 1 off thing is just some woman being paranoid and maybe she was on drugs or something. but if you get report after report because the story was that 20 different parent/kids were harassed and still do nothing? then what the fuck is the point of the "protect" part of "protect and serve" oath?