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Originally Posted by Randallflagg
What I am about to type here - is NOT disrespectful. However, it IS from years as a Special Agent with the DIA and working with local law enforcement in several states across America:
Do not EVER trust a Police Officer. EVER. It is there job to get you to confess to whatever...and by ANY means necessary. They are allowed to lie directly to you. They are allowed to say whatever it takes to get you to "own up" to what you did, or did not do. One wrong answer that you may have inadvertently told them - in the confusion - could potentially mean felony charges against you.
That is the way our legal system is set up. Frazod is absolutely correct. If, God forbid, this ever happens to you - tell the Police that you will not answer ANY question until you have reached Counsel. The moment you ask for Counsel, they are "supposed" to stop any questioning. This RARELY happens. Say nothing - I say again - say nothing.
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Sad that it has to be that way - especially if you were completely in the right. It's human nature to want to explain what you did and why.
And they know that.
Even though you might be okay, and it rarely happens that somebody who kills an intruder gets sent to prison for it, it does happen.
And getting sued by the crack whore who shat the intruder out absolutely happens, too. And the state doesn't provide/pay for civil counsel - a second mortgage or selling your ****ing house does that.
Whether you're in your house or carrying legally outside of it, you never want to have to pull the trigger. But it beats getting killed, or losing control of a situation where you may likely get killed.