Threatened

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by PG_Ref

Associating it back to basketball ... should you call a foul on a player before the foul is committed?

IANAL nor a LEO, but I think the correct analogy would be:

Would you call a foul before contact? And, the answer is yes, if it's a non-contact T.

In the other case, the threat *can* be a crime.

[PG_Ref]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Would you call a foul before contact? And, the answer is yes, if it's a non-contact T.

I agree. I was only focusing on the "until someone actually does something" part of the statement.