Woman who fired warning shots to scare intruder says Oakland police treated her like criminal

You know what else is illegal? Breaking into homes and cars. She was standing her ground.

I'm on the ladies side, she can't just let somebody break into her house!

You gotta be your own police, doctor, lawyer, and more in this world. Nobody wants your safety, good health, and freedom more than you.

Firing a gun in the air in a residential area actually made her a criminal

It's too dangerous here in the Bay to rely on 20 minute police response times. I applaud this lady for defending her home and children.

Yes, I learned the hard way too. You don't call the police when something like this happens. The same thing happened to me. An attempted murder, or attempted strong armed robbery almost happened with me. A BMW parked behind me as a woman distracted me while I sat in my vehicle. I was aware of my surroundings and got my gun in ready position. Said man in BMW quickly came up to my window with his hand in his pocket of his hoodie. Looked like he was holding a gun. I beat him to the draw. Got out my car. He stayed there in that position while I held my gun at him telling him to leave. He wouldn't leave. His woman accomplice came at me from the side and snatched my gold chain from my neck and said "shoot him." I'm sure she did not mean me to shoot her bf. I never took my eyes off the perp. They now had my gold chain. I thought I was going to die even though I had the drop on him. I told them to leave. Told them go ahead and keep my chain. Taking a life was not worth more than my chain. The perp would not leave. I told him not to take out his gun. He called my gun fake. He called it a bb gun. He was going to draw on me. I told him it real. Then when I made a choice that he was not going to listen and he was going to draw on me, I decided to shoot a warning shot. The perps finally left. I called the cops. The cops arrested me and took my gun. I had to hire an attorney. They treated me like I was the villain. California sucks. You don't call the cops. That's what I learned. And they wonder why it's getting this way.

I called 911 on some guy waving a gun across the street in front of a hospital around a block away from where I live and the police had the AUDACITY to grill me and treated me like I was making it up. How ridiculous. Like sir, you’re just scared and don’t want to do your job

Lady u are 100% in the right well done xx

“They were inside for hours looking for weapons.” Instead of being outside looking for the criminals that broke inside her home.

Living here in Oakland is rough. The police aren’t doing anything. We are out here on our own. Protect you and yours at all cost. Anyone who thinks otherwise should move out here and learn their lesson.

To the Oakland Police Officers: You had the description of the true suspect but you treated an innocent woman as though she was the suspect when all she was doing was protecting her home. In fact, you should all give up being police officers if you are only going to treat victims as suspects.

Breaking into someone's home is a crime also. She was protecting her family. Kudos to her.

"The right to bear arms" this is the very essence of America one could never put their safety in others hands especially with it comes to your home and family

She did more to protect herself and her family than the police.

This should be a Teaching and Learning experience for Everyone involved. Thank God nobody was injured or killed.

Never EVER fire "Warning shots". It can land you in trouble. It will be looked at as "Intimidating with a deadly weapon" "Unlawful negligent use of a firearm." If you're pulling a gun to fire warning shots, it pretty much says you were not in immediate fear for your life, or else you would not have fired "warning shots". So, don't pull that gun out unless you mean to use it against a threat. If she would have shot the intruder, she likely would not have ended up in trouble.

She has all the right to see for her own. These kind of situations have escalated beyond government's control.

The time the police spent questioning her and her actions, could've been spent looking for the criminal that will likely be breaking into other peoples shit on the next block

When you lose the ability to feel safe, you need to flee. I bet that boys Mom was happy her son made it home that night. I hope he makes better decisions. I hope for peace and safety for her and her family.

Wow! Doing what's easy, harassing a victim.