Would the cops charge this guy in the States
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Toron...46199-sun.html
Family guy gets no sympathy
By IAN ROBERTSON, TORONTO SUN
Burlington dad Don Shaxon is taking a public beating for battering a teen who "jumped out of the shadows" in the basement of his home.
Frustrated that Halton Regional Police said the 16-year-old faces only an underage drinking charge, the venture capitalist went public.
Police said the case is being reviewed, but Shaxon, 30, plans to file a complaint against police today.
Since a local paper's report and a radio station open-line host invited comments, "people are giving me a hard time for beating him up," he said.
"They say I'm the one who should be charged."
Shaxon said he got more sympathy from radio listeners yesterday, after CFRB interviewed him.
"You've got to understand, it was pitch black when this guy jumped out of the shadows," he told the Sun. "I didn't know who he was or why he was in my house. I started fighting him and yelled for my wife to call police."
Although he took boxing in school, "I'm only 5-and-a-dime and 180," the 5-foot-10, 180-pounder said. "And no, I don't work out.
"When he got up, I punched him again" and grabbed his throat, Shaxon said. "I was hitting him on the head and I guess his head was hitting the concrete floor."
"My wife was three feet away, on the phone and I told him 'If you move again, I'm going to kill you'."
When police arrived, the subdued youth "pretty much the same size as me ... had blood coming out of his ear," Shaxon said.
Earlier, he set up a home theatre in the basement of the home he and Melissa, 27, moved into five months ago with their daughters Summer, five months, and Britney, 10. The two girls were asleep upstairs.