A few nights ago I drove to go and practice hitting some golf balls, I’m terrible, and so decided to stop at a shop on the way there.
Now I’m just in my own world, thoughts flowing constantly and so don’t think much of the shouting as I go into the shop; which has its doors open.
As I go in I can hear someone shouting get out but still I don’t realise he’s talking to me. Then I notice a dude without a shirt on approaching me menacingly, now I’m not a fighter but I instinctively turn into more a fighter stance and receive the hardest thigh kick I’ve ever had as he says leave.
Now you don’t gotta tell me twice I’m done with this shit and straight to golf. As I’m driving the next few minutes to get there I can’t stop thinking about what could be happening to the shop keepers. Not really a fan of the cops but in times like these I thought it necessary to call it in and they say they’ll send someone right out.
I call back the next day to get an update and they take a while to read the notes and say it turned into a serious incident and that an officer would call me. I have a family member in the police so for them to check and turns out it was armed robbery but she didn’t tell me anymore than that.
Just crazy when you’re put into a crazy situation out of nowhere.
That testimony is probably why you weren’t called. That would probably hurt their case against him if presented as evidence.
It’s not about hurting the case, it’s just irrelevant to the charges in court. How a suspect is stopped while fleeing isn’t usually relevant to the charges against them. Especially since it wasn’t an officer that stopped them, but a civilian. That information will of course be in the report, but it wouldn’t be relevant in the court proceedings, especially not needing them to testify in person.
And they likely had whatever he was accused of doing and the camera footage. Probably took a plea deal or something.