[Scott]

So you are driving down the road it\'s almost dusk on a summer night. You come up on a car on the side of the road. There are a man and a woman behind the car and the man is beating the crap out of the woman. You can safely stop if you chose to, and you do have your pistol with you. Not any other traffic that you can see on the road.

Again really happened here in Virginia. I\'ll tell you the rest of the story tomorrow. Until then, what do you think?

 

[Scott]

When I got this one my response was to pull over close enough to read the license plate. Get the plate # and get on the phone. I also said I might stick my head out and ask if everything was ok, and ask if they needed any assistance holding up my cell phone.

Domestic Violence situations are some of the most dangerous situations you can get yourself into as a LEO or not.

 

[Scott]

Well you guys had better responses than the guy who did stop. He wound up in police custody for awhile until they sorted it all out.

He stopped, exited his vehicle yelling at the guy to stop beating the woman. The guy told him in language that would be censored here to stay out of it. Our good guy then drew his CCW pistol and ordered the guy to stop beating on the woman. At that point both the man and woman jumped into the car and left leaving our good guy standing on the side of the road befuddled. The good guy gets back in his car and proceeds about his business.

A while later he gets pulled over and it is a felony stop. If you are not familiar it means multiple officers, guns out and they are not looking to see your license and registration. After our good guy is disarmed and in the back of the cruiser he is informed that they had a call on him brandishing a gun and threatening a couple on the side of the road.

It took a couple hours, but the cops sorted it out and the good guy learned a valuable lesson. He was not charged, but he certainly could have been, and it may have cost him his CHP.