I am ASHAMED..........

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Ahh but its not self defense is it. Im no lawyer/Policemen/Whoever else is an expert on laws. But i believe that when things like this happen you are to alert the authorities so they can properly deal with it.

In fact my neighbor had this happen kind of. He was at a party, his friends got drunk, went to break into his school. He followed to stop them, grabbed them and started taking them off the property. He was arrested when the cop got there as were the rest. They got days in jail, he received 30 day house arrest. Lesser sentence but still a sentence.

In hockey its known as the 3rd man in rule. If someone starts bashing on your teamate, and you jump in, whether to pull your teammate out or kick the crud out of the other guy, you are assessed a 5 minute major and possible game misconduct.

In self defense does not just mean your own defense, it also means self defense of others.

Here you go, quoted from PA's self defense laws.

Third parties:

The right to defense of others turns largely on the reasonableness of the belief that the victim deserved assistance. A minority of jurisdictions require that the rescuer be a member of the victim’s family, or the victim’s superior or employee. Similarly, a minority of jurisdictions require that the rescuer’s belief be correct, reasoning that the rescuer ‘merely steps into the victim’s shoes’, while the majority requires only that it be reasonable. Pennsylvania law imposes no such restrictions. It does, however, require the additional showing that the rescuer believed that his intervention was necessary, and that the rescuer retreats if the victim would be required to do so.

If in the course of intentionally defending himself or another, a defendant recklessly or negligently injures or kills a third person, self-defense will not bar liability, but it will reduce the gravity of the charge from an intentional crime to a reckless or negligent crime.


This is about what Escelante did in his actions.