Martin should of done what GZ did. Use the 'following' experience as justification for obtaining a Concealed Carry Permit.
Then in the future, after 4 minutes of waiting, and then was attacked, he could of legally used his firearm to stop it.
-Geaux
He wasn't old enough to do so.
Good point.
Then he should of at least brought a knife to the fight instead of attacking with his fist.
You must be attacked first, not only followed, to use fist and or a sidewalk as a weapon.
The 4 minute wait clearly shows TM was not in imminent danger, he re-engaged and became the aggressor
-Geaux
He should have took the 4 minutes and called the law from a safe place, and not to re-emerge until the law gets there, but to figure in ones mind that hey (maybe I can take this guy), and hey he shouldn't be following me anyway, because hey I wasn't do anything wrong, and so hey I am going to be a man, and to asked this guy what his problem is, and if he doesn't give me the right answer then I will use what I have learned in fighting techniques to teach this guy a lesson about how not to scare someone or to follow someone in the dark on a stormy night? WRONG!
Case in point, as I was riding with a friend one night, and we were coming out of my friends dad's Marina in which we had placed my boat at, we encountered a detective who spotted us coming out of the gate after we had put the boat in the back for repairs. This guy was a desensitized officer who had been working the drug division for far to long I'm guessing. Anyway so he circled us with his
un-marked car, and he even let us pull out onto the highway before he decided to pull us over in a dark area. My car had tented glass in it, and so he could not see who was inside of the car, and so we just sat there while he sat back in his vehicle in some sort of stalemate we had going. Anyway so I opened up the door of my car, and slowly got out, and I noticed that he was just sitting in his car with the door opened, but he had his head hung downward as if he was just sitting there waiting but for what I thought ? So I slowly walked back towards his car, when all of a sudden he emerged from the slumped position with a gun pointed right in my face as if it was a set up the whole time. Quickly I said whoa, whoa, whoa buddie, and threw my hands up as if thinking this cat was going to shoot me, and that he wasn't a cop at all, but a cop impersonator or something. He then came up to me with the gun still in my face saying stuff like " do you know I could put a bullet right between your eyes right now", and I said well you would be killing an unarmed innocent man if you do, then he said in this situation it would wash. WOW!
Then he wanted to know what I was doing behind the boat place, and I said placing my boat back there, and I told him that I had the boat marina's son in the car with me if he wanted to check him out also. He then checked my friend out and cleared us right before another cruiser showed up. I was so mad at the way this cat handled the situation, because if I would have done something wrong when he tried to set me up, then he would have shot me and felt justified in doing so. Lucky for me I thought, is that I kept a cool head in the situation, because this guy was irrational in my opinion in the way that he went about doing his job. Well as you know I had to check him out further after the incident, and come to find out he was a hot head and a desensitized cop who had been fighting criminals in the drug infested communities, and he had come to believe that the lines that separate were not so blurry after all in his mind, but instead they had begun to run together in his mind, so he began using this thinking in everything pertaining to his police work. He finally was fired later on that year, and I thought that was probably a good thing, because he had went to far over the edge it seemed to me. The point is, is that the best thing to do in life always, is to be very smart when in a situation, and don't do anything that could get you killed in a situation if at all possible. This cop should have alerted us of his intentions with the loud speaker in his vehicle, but he did not, and he should have waited for another vehicle to meet up with him, otherwise if he thought we were a dangerous crew, but he did not, and he should have pulled us in a lighted area along with the added back up, but he did not, therefore he put his and our lives in danger by acting in the ways that he did that night. His boss was supposed to send him to give us an apology for it all, and this was after I reported him, but he never showed up to give that apology. He was either an arrogant piece of dung or a desensitized cop who needed to be re-evaluated badly by his department under some sort of addressing of this desensitizing problem that he may have had, with some sort of departmental training program as was needed I think.
Like I said there are many lessons to be learned from all of this, but if it is looked at as only racist or racism when it wasn't, then we may miss out on the whole problem that is to be learned from all of this in the future.