Proper response to verbal assault//threats

[sub1028]

Ouroboros - just a question​

Are you black by any chance, and were you walking through a white community? If that is NOT the case, maybe she is just a fruitcake. Fruitcakes are best ignored.

I knew you would bring up racists shit

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

I knew you would bring up racists shit

awwwwww, a racist calling someone else a racist, how quaint

 

[sub1028]

awwwwww, a racist calling someone else a racist, how quaint

I didn't call you racist, don't they teach reading up there in my ancestors' homeland

 

[Paradoxical]

Twice, while walking on the street outside my residence (which I've been doing for twenty years), some foul mouthed woman I never saw before started yelling at me. The first time, because it was early Sunday and no one else was around, she followed and harangued me for roughly 20 minutes as I simply kept walking, apparently for not listening to whatever she was raving about. I did everything I could not to interact her the first time, but the second time, she again addressed me without any provocation on my part, though she only said two things because there were more cars around (no listening witnesses though).

I am informed that verbal assault is not illegal but that threats are, though without a witness, I doubt the cops will do (or will want to do) anything. I'm certainly not going to stop my walks because of this twit. I thought about taking my iphone on the walk and, if she does it a third time, threaten to take her picture and use it to bring charges against her (also a long shot, I imagine). She probably doesn't have a brain in her head and is incapable of understanding consequences, but I might be better protected if I had some documentation.

This got way off-topic because a poster brought race into it. My suggestion is to carry made around with you and get a license to carry. If you can't, carry a weapon. Crazy people cannot be reasoned with.

 

[multivita-man]

I'm not sure that's good advice. If you pepper spray someone who is merely blocking your path, that's a likely an assault charge.

A lot of people get themselves into trouble thinking they are 'defending' themselves when in fact they're committing crimes themselves, either by carrying a prohibited object and worse, using it in situations where it's not allowed. Generally speaking, you have to show you were defending yourself from an assault and that you had no other choice but to use force. "I was afraid he/she might do something" isn't necessarily a valid legal justification.