Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
That's so typical BirdGirl, that the police would be mad at you for defending yourself. More and more authorities are trying to legislate a society of victims, utterly dependant on the mommy-state, defensless unless recieving special legal entitlement to protect yourself (ie. being a cop).

Nuts to the police, you did the right thing!
They really weren't trying to make me a victim. They were simply concerned that that guy might have been armed and could have hurt me badly when I grabbed him to get him to let go of the purse. Had I thought he'd been armed, I wouldn't have done what I did. People who fight back often do get injured while doing so.

Lately not too far south from where we live, there's been a gang of thieves who pull up next to women getting in their cars in the parking lots of nice stores, steal their jewelry and purses, rough them up, and then run. These guys are armed and there are two or three of them. They roughed up one lady, who got away with minor injuries but lost her purse. Then they beat another woman so badly that she's still in intensive care and has a traumatic brain injury that she'll never fully recover from. The ladies didn't fight back. I'm sure they knew they were overpowered. I would have done exactly what the criminals asked in that case. Till they arrest those guys, I'm not shopping in that area, or, if I must, I'm taking my bodyguard (Dave).