Watch the video below. This apparently happened in the Home Depot in Ocala Florida. It is right down the street from Silver Springs, which is why you hear them refer to that. Below the post and video is my opinion. Discuss.
I don’t think the people in this video are stupid at all. He kept tapping her phone with his, while causing the phone to chirp each time. Then he made various claims of “It’s charity” and “I need money” then later, he said “I only took a hundred”
In my mind, this creates the reasonable belief that he is somehow using his phone to steal money, or at the very least, some sort of information from her phone. He is intentionally creating that belief in an attempt to get content for his stupid social media post that he is obviously filming with smart glasses. Many people’s phones contain financial information or automatic payment apps. It’s completely reasonable to believe he is using his phone to steal money, and he even made statements to that fact.
Once that reasonable belief exists in my mind, I am holding him for police. This is at the very least a reasonable belief that theft is taking place. Florida statute 776.031:
A person is justified in using or threatening to use force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent or terminate the other’s trespass on, or other tortious or criminal interference with, either real property other than a dwelling or personal property, lawfully in his or her possession or in the possession of another who is a member of his or her immediate family or household or of a person whose property he or she has a legal duty to protect. A person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force.
I am tackling this guy’s bitch ass. If he offers ANY physical force to resist my apprehension of him, it is now reasonable for me to believe that his theft has now become robbery. I am drawing a gun on his stupid ass. Why? Because as soon as he uses force, that becomes a reasonable fear of imminent commission of a forcible felony, as in robbery.
All of this for cheap laughs. This video would have been much funnier if it had ended with the videographer getting his ass kicked, or proned out on the ground looking down the barrel of that old man’s handgun.
Once it turns out he was placing me in fear for Internet laughs, my lawyer would be instructed to sue this asshole for intentional infliction of emotional distress. That would be funny as well.
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