Question

You are the manager of a bookstore. a customer becomes irritated at having to stand in line and begins to shout at the salesclerk for refusing to wait on him. you come out of your office and ask the customer to calm down. he shouts at you. you tell him to leave. he refuses. so you and the salesclerk pick him up and shove him bodily out the door. he calls the police to have you arrested for assault. should the police arrest you? assuming that they do, how would you defend yourself in court?

Answer 1

He was on your property and did refuse to leave. If they did you could just say that he was yelling harmful language and refused to leave the store.

Answer 2

The man who entered the store was constantly harrasing my employee and when asked to quiet down began to consistently shout at him. Then I came out to ask what’s going on and calm down but he shouted at me and I asked him to leave. We then proceeded to throw him out as self defence because he would not leave private property and because he was being a public nusense and we feared for our customers saftey