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Originally Posted by kgoerz
I know exactly what you mean. But a private Citizen can not detain another private Citizen for doing any of this. Sounds like he tried to do a Terry Stop. The guy who authored the Stand your Ground Law was talking last night. He said it clearly states "you can not approach someone, challenge someone creating a situation, then use the Stand Your Ground Law as a defense. He said the stand your ground law do's not even apply here.
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Was the "kid" ever detained?
Is it against the law to walk up to somebody you don't know and ask what they are doing in the neighborhood? Damn, I've done the "Can I help you find where you're going" in my neighborhood just to get a closer look at somebody. Reason being we had a guy come home for lunch and find a stranger in his house - bad shot, he missed the perp and the cops never found him. Other than the kids at night checking cars around here the usual MO is to walk through the neighborhood during working hours, kick in somebody's front door and make off with what you can.
Is asking someone a question detaining them? If you try and ask a question and the person takes off wouldn't that be a little strange?
A lot of "facts" are being thrown around right now and the - if true - time line and locations are getting merged and folded in a lot of the stories out there right now.