Q: Can i press charges against an adult if they come to my workplace and threaten to assault me along with their children?
I'm a manager a fast-food establishment and i sent an employee home. That employee then calls her mother to the restaurant and proceeds to threaten me along with other family members. They threw drinks and metal rods at me, called me everything but a Child of God.
A:
You can, and probably should, report the incident to the police and your local prosecuting attorney. The prosecutor has the discretion and duty to determine if the offending persons will be charged with violating the law based upon the facts that you provide along with any facts the police gather in connection with the matter.
The notion is that criminal conduct is an offense against the state. You do not have the power to charge anyone with a crime. The term "press charges" is misleading. You report facts and the state determines what happens, if anything.
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