"You cannot post the images yourself because you have to remember, in Canada, we have a presumption of innocence and posting that picture could be a violation of private life," said SQ communications officer Lt. Benoit Richard.

I wish that was how the laws work but it's not. I read a news story where, a robber came into a store with a baseball bat demanding money, the store clerk grabbed hold of the bat and beat the robber and chased him off. The store clerk should be lauded as a hero, right? Nope. He got charged with aggravated assault. Our justice system is a joke.

To clarify further on what happened.

The timeline of events basically went like this:

- Robber walks into the store

- Robber attempts to rob the store, ends up using force.

- Employee defends himself from attack

- Employee is successful in doing so, so much that the robber flees the scene and runs away from the store.

Up until this point, the employee was golden.

Where the employee screwed themselves is the following.

- Employee follows the robber out of the store chasing him.

- Employee beats robber with the bat, to the point of causing serious injury.

"Aggravated Assault" actually means assault that causes grave injury, it is not "angry assault" so it's actually more serious than just "assault".

I think it's going to be incredibly difficult for the employee or their lawyer to successfully argue that the employee needed to do that to defend themselves, especially considering they already defended themselves causing the robber to flee.

Now as per Ian Runkle, yes he is not going to get anything near a maximum sentence, but at least this case will serve as an example that just calling something "self-defense" doesn't mean it was actually self-defense.

Of course when a situation like this is actually going down, there is fear, and adrenaline is pumping, etc, it's not easy to think clearly or if you really needed to do everything you do, so it will be interesting to see how harsh or how lenient the sentencing is for this case, because the fact that he is guilty of the charges is already an open and shut case.

Ultimately, why I say this case is not a good example of how our justice system sucks, is because it is not a completely pure cut and dry case of obvious complete and total self-defense, while there are others that are.

do you have a link to this story ?

I have Runkle's video here, where he explains it, according to the service call details, at the beginning of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1y0SFn ... fTheBailey

"The law says you can't chase him and give him a couple of extra hits, especially if those extra hits put him in the hospital". (4:54).

The rest of the video is expanding upon his opinion and view on this area of the law, but he's clear on what the law itself is.

Similar story here many years ago in Toronto downtown China town, a thief grabbed something from a small super market and the owner chased out.... At last the thief had nothing but the owner got charged. And that's not the first time the same thief stole goods from the super market.

In my hometown if the thief dare to do such a thing, he must be beaten to half dead by the whole neighborhood before handed to the police.

It's rediculous for the victim got charged for protecting themselves BECAUSE the government failed to do the job!