The Smashed Windshield Incident: A Look at the Legal Process

The smashed windshield incident involving a Lamborghini and vandalism charges highlights the complexities of the legal process. The vehicle owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, reported the incident to the police, citing that the driver of another car had intentionally vandalized their vehicle. The police investigation revealed evidence of property damage, loss of use for the duration it took to repair, potential loss of profits, and damage to the actual car.

The Legal System in Action

As the case progresses, the legal system comes into play. The district attorney's office reviews the evidence and decides whether to pursue charges against the accused individual. This decision is based on the availability of evidence, including eyewitness statements and physical proof of the incident. The court process begins with a complaint being filed, followed by the serving of the defendant with a summons. The accused is then entitled to retain a lawyer to represent them throughout the litigation.

The Role of the Police Report

A police report provides a detailed account of the events surrounding the incident. In this case, two officers responded to the scene and took statements from multiple witnesses, including the victim and other individuals present. The officers attempted to gather facts through memory recall, as they did not take notes during their initial investigation. The resulting report provides a comprehensive summary of the incident, highlighting key details such as the time of day, location, and actions taken by both parties involved.

The Investigation Continues

As the case moves forward, further investigation is necessary to determine the extent of the damage and any potential liability on the part of the accused individual. The police may interview additional witnesses, review security footage (if available), and conduct a thorough examination of the vehicle and surrounding area for evidence. This process aims to gather as much information as possible to support or refute the charges.

Next Steps in the Litigation

The court case will likely involve several phases, including discovery, where both parties exchange evidence and witness statements. The defendant may also request discovery of certain documents or testimony from specific witnesses. Depending on the outcome of this phase, settlement negotiations may occur between the two parties. If a settlement cannot be reached, the case will proceed to trial, where both sides present their arguments and evidence in front of a judge or jury.

The Importance of Eyewitness Testimony

Eyewitness statements play a crucial role in understanding what happened during the incident. In this case, multiple witnesses provided accounts of the events leading up to the vandalism. While some witnesses may have provided conflicting information, others corroborated similar details. The fact that not all witnesses presented consistent testimony highlights the challenges of gathering accurate information from eyewitnesses.

The Value of Video Evidence

Video footage can provide a valuable source of evidence in cases like this one. In some instances, security cameras captured the incident, offering clear visuals of the events leading up to the vandalism. This type of evidence can help establish liability and determine the extent of damages incurred by the vehicle owner.

The Concept of Antagonizing Behavior

In this case, the wife of the individual accused of vandalism claimed that her husband was "antagonizing" the neighborhood while recording residents on his phone. While some may interpret this as a legitimate reason for law enforcement to become involved, others might view it as an attempt to deflect responsibility or downplay the severity of the incident.

Conclusion

The smashed windshield incident serves as a reminder that individuals must be held accountable for their actions. As we continue to follow the case through its various stages, it is essential to recognize both the strengths and weaknesses of the legal system. While there may be some room for improvement in certain aspects of the process, the overall goal of seeking justice remains the same: to hold individuals responsible for their actions and ensure that those who commit crimes are brought to account.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're taking this very very seriously and all these guys are in a lot of trouble we have one more party who gave us St myth and I must say this is my favorite part the cay laog group brothers are back you guys and we have a big update the one you've been waiting for guys welcome back to ddhq what do we got we got some big things right we got some big things thanks for having us back of course you guys have been amazing I think you had a very warm reception on The Daily driven Exotics Channel you have uh for us a police report basically my incident with some haters exactly yeah everything was documented like all the viewers saw um Damon did a great job documenting the whole situation the Costa Mesa police department did a great job documenting the whole situation and we have the police report in front of us today so we're going to what we're going to go over the police report break it down because the police report is different than my video because it's not my perspective it's both parties perspectives correct correct and then that comes together sorry not to K off with also the police perspective or is it just they document both sides and put it in the report they document both sides and they do kind of give their own perspective on what happened to one of the individuals in the case oh okay cool so we have that and then what we have is we have something over here yes so we also have the official Complaint here as you can see Superior Court State of California Orange County we have here Damon frier daily G Exotics plainst we have five causes of action here so as you can see things are ready to go we are are ready and it's time for everyone to lawyer up we're taking this very very seriously and all these guys are in a lot of trouble so in the police report it has that fire stated that he apologized to one of the parties and um that you were continuing to yell and that you asked one of the parties how fast you were going and you exited your vehicle and started recording the incident one of the parties won't necessarily say their name but it was the person in the green shirt he continued to yell profanities profanities at you he walked in the southwest direction away from your vehicle you continued to record and while recording he continued to yell profanities then you heard the sound of glass breaking coming from behind you you looked back towards your vehicle and saw a male wearing a black clothing and he was walking away from your vehicle with a sledgehammer and it has here the estimated damages to the windshield is approximately $5 to $110,000 so you walked back over to your vehicle and saw the windshield had been broken and you called the police to report the vandalism which is exactly what happened the police came to the incident and located one of the individuals who matched the description that you provided the person who vandalized your vehicle is a construction worker and he was currently working at the residence and the following is a synopsis of what he had to say this is the person who smash the windshield right okay so this is going to be what he says to the police officers correct interesting cuz I think in our video we did the best we could by turning the audio as loud as we could and what we heard we put in some subtitles which basically before you read it he said from what our understanding was he said that the car showed up with the broken windshield yeah yeah and and that's such a great Point that's exactly what he said and often times people think that in order to go after an individual you need to have either video footage of him directly hitting your car with the sledgehammer or you need the CSI effect DNA samples hair samples blood everything and you have experts to evaluate the damage to the windshield to make sure that it was that exact sludgehammer that did it none of that is necessary we actually could have done that the CSI effect we could yeah itely help necessary the perfect imprint to that Sledgehammer usually we get experts involved to evaluate stuff like that but instead of doing that there's what's known as circumstantial evidence where the court looks at the surrounding circumstances and facts and draws a reasonable conclusion from those facts so what we had was the sound we had him walking away with the sludgehammer and we had the before and after video footage so that's a big one and not to mention the scene where he hides the sledgehammer oh and that and they all lie right right and we'll we'll get into that okay the person who smashed your windshield he was eating lunch with his coworker which is what we saw um in the back of the commercial truck he saw your Lamborghini driving down the street at a high rate of speed the Lamborghini was then seen driving up Northbound back towards an individual on this truck the Lamborghini was approximately 5 ft away from the tailgate where he was eating he stated that the broken windshield was already there now I want to pause here knowingly lying to to a police officer is a crime oh it is it is a crime the sad part about it is that the only time something actually happens as a result of lying to the police is for things like false identification so knowingly providing false identification to a police officer that's normally when you see charges but that doesn't take away from the fact that knowingly lying to a police officer is a crime we know that he's lying obviously this person saw the person in the green shirt walk into the street and stop the Lamborghini that person in the green shirt told Damon to get out of his car and the two got into a verbal argument which is true that's interesting so he now is a witness for us cuz he confirms I was stopped in the middle of the road I didn't just stop on my own and also he confirms that the guy before I could get my camera open yeah the guy was telling me to get out of the car it he literally said that person in the green shirt walked into the street and stopped your Lamborghini this person who hit your Lamborghini admitted that he had the sludgehammer in his hands but did not use it to smash your window this person's lunchtime was over and he got back to working on the construction of the house and this concluded his statements so I want to reiterate again we are coming after these guys they are not off the hook something like this is taken very seriously you don't want to do what these guys did and we'd love to give you guys some more details on the complaint but we'd rather wait for these individuals to see this paperwork in front of their face and then we'll update you guys from there what else we got on that police report so we got the person person who was wearing the beanie give a report as well so according to his statement he was driving his truck Northbound on the street and turned left onto his neighbor's driveway he was then reversing out of the driveway and saw a blur go down the street he stated that the car was traveling at approximately 65 mph and weaved through cars that were on the street he then saw the person in the green shirt get into a verbal argument with you and that he was unable to see if the Lamborghini had damages the windshield already and that concluded his statement so hold on yeah back it up for a second let's back that up if we went back to the video that was like a one car at a time road because of all the traffic that was parked along either side of that road and I know that cuz I drove down it twice cuz I drove down once and then I had to go down I ended up in a CU a sack and I had to turn around and come back and that's when I actually got stopped and he almost makes it sound like I went speeding down the road and then the guy in the green stopped me like I went several blocks before I ever came I didn't go down just turn straight back so we'll read that again diss that but first of all he said I weaved in and out of out of traffic down this road and at 65 that is so ridiculous it's not even funny like if you were to drive 65 M an hour down that road with traffic on either side had complete that would be so dangerous well first of all you would be stop in time in front of you you wouldn't stop for the stop sign of the end cuz it's like 5,000 down the stop sign so there's no way you can doing 65 mph that's that's fast also apparently he saw you driving at 65 mph and weaving through cars while he's reversing out of a driveway so all of this is it was a blur but he saw me weaving in out of cars correct and then we have the guy in the green shirt statement as well he stated he was standing in front of one of the homes he was working outside when he saw your Lamborghini traveling at approximately 50 to 60 MPH southbound he then saw the lambor the Lamborghini traveling Northbound towards his Direction he got in front of the Lamborghini and stayed to the driver which is you you have to slow down then you started to record the situation and exited your vehicle the guy in the green shirt walked towards his house and he was unable to see if the damage to your vehicle was already there and then his wife told him to go inside of the residence because the situation was getting escalated and his wife called the police did he just say that he walked in front of the car the stoping to talk to him he says that he well it says he walked in front of the Lamborghini and stated to the driver you have to slow down he said I walked in front of it but then he said that he couldn't tell when when she was was damaged or not he said he couldn't tell if the windshield was damaged or not so the police officer he walked over to your car he examined the damages took photograph all that's documented in there and he formed the opinion that the person who smashed the windshield of your Lamborghini was in violation of vandalism not just vandalism felony vandalism because so they actually arrested him they did arrest him and they took him to jail walked over to the person who vandalized your car handcuffed his wrist behind his back and double lock them and place them under arrest that's good and we're currently getting in contact with the district attorney to see if they're going to pursue the charges against this man I think we all want to know if the legal system works some people feel like they can't trust that process and maybe it's a misunderstanding you got to understand this is black and white there's no gray area it's like you have to have evidence that's how people get convicted of a crime you can be charged of a crime but there's a difference between charged and convicted conviction is when you've been proved of the crime everything up until then is you're innocent until proven guilty right that's correct and I think some people need understand that like in this case we have the evidence now we need to find out if they're actually going to pursue it and we're still not done with the police report we have one more party who gave a statement and I must say this is my favorite part really this is my favorite part who's the party so we have the um the green shirts wife statement to the police and um she said that she was watching the whole incident from her patio and stated that you started to antagonize the neighborhood by recording the neighborhood residents whatever that means apparently you're antagonizing people by just recording what's going on she failed to mention the fact that everybody was antagonizing you she she made it seem like everyone else was the victim except for you when which is clearly not what happened course you know what the good piece is in all that is like hey whoever you are at least you got your husband's back I'll give her that so essentially she just told her husband to stop arguing to go back inside of the house um that she called the police that pretty much sums up the police report and so we took all the facts all the evidence we prepared the complaint everything has been filed and we're coming after these guys this is going to be taken very seriously next steps like when we do the next update what could we actually be telling the audience so we can tell them where the case is at who has been served have they retained a lawyer what phase of litigation are we in are we in Discovery are we talking about settlement um what there's a lawyer tactic here we can kind of get in a little bit into it a little more broad that we can give into detail but as much as we're legally allowed to give we're to give the audience and I'll give a little bit of details about some of the things we're going to be pursuing in court for example let's just talk about the property damage you have loss of use for the amount of time it took to repair any loss profits that could have been made while using the Lamborghini for any videos you could have potentially made and the damage to the actual car for replacing the windshield of course is there anything else you guys want to talk about I think we're good that's about it well first of all I want to say thank you of course these guys have been amazing of course if you're in a jam and you're in the Orange County area and you need legal advice or even if you're in California you need legal advice like someone can call you you can get you fre consultation free consultation it's interesting to read a police report because the police officers show up they're getting my story and they're getting the other people's story and they several of them and then they got to go basically like from memory cuz they didn't take notes so they do all this stuff over the course of an hour and a half plus arresting the guy at what point do they go and actually write this down do they sit in the squad car and write it right there on a computer well the guys in the back or do they go all the way to the police station and do it they usually go back and write it up all from memory M yeah that's tough that would be very hard that' be that'd be a tough job I think they did a pretty darn good job and kept it pretty accurate that's a rap guy stay tuned thanks for watching this series it's not one I intended on filming but we're trying to be positive about it but at the same time hold people accountable like look we're all adults in this situation it's okay to make some mistakes when you're young like this kind of stuff maybe like I still don't advise if you can stop yourself from doing this but you know obviously like this is just uncalled for I'll see you guys in the next video anything else you want to say love you guys now we're outwe're taking this very very seriously and all these guys are in a lot of trouble we have one more party who gave us St myth and I must say this is my favorite part the cay laog group brothers are back you guys and we have a big update the one you've been waiting for guys welcome back to ddhq what do we got we got some big things right we got some big things thanks for having us back of course you guys have been amazing I think you had a very warm reception on The Daily driven Exotics Channel you have uh for us a police report basically my incident with some haters exactly yeah everything was documented like all the viewers saw um Damon did a great job documenting the whole situation the Costa Mesa police department did a great job documenting the whole situation and we have the police report in front of us today so we're going to what we're going to go over the police report break it down because the police report is different than my video because it's not my perspective it's both parties perspectives correct correct and then that comes together sorry not to K off with also the police perspective or is it just they document both sides and put it in the report they document both sides and they do kind of give their own perspective on what happened to one of the individuals in the case oh okay cool so we have that and then what we have is we have something over here yes so we also have the official Complaint here as you can see Superior Court State of California Orange County we have here Damon frier daily G Exotics plainst we have five causes of action here so as you can see things are ready to go we are are ready and it's time for everyone to lawyer up we're taking this very very seriously and all these guys are in a lot of trouble so in the police report it has that fire stated that he apologized to one of the parties and um that you were continuing to yell and that you asked one of the parties how fast you were going and you exited your vehicle and started recording the incident one of the parties won't necessarily say their name but it was the person in the green shirt he continued to yell profanities profanities at you he walked in the southwest direction away from your vehicle you continued to record and while recording he continued to yell profanities then you heard the sound of glass breaking coming from behind you you looked back towards your vehicle and saw a male wearing a black clothing and he was walking away from your vehicle with a sledgehammer and it has here the estimated damages to the windshield is approximately $5 to $110,000 so you walked back over to your vehicle and saw the windshield had been broken and you called the police to report the vandalism which is exactly what happened the police came to the incident and located one of the individuals who matched the description that you provided the person who vandalized your vehicle is a construction worker and he was currently working at the residence and the following is a synopsis of what he had to say this is the person who smash the windshield right okay so this is going to be what he says to the police officers correct interesting cuz I think in our video we did the best we could by turning the audio as loud as we could and what we heard we put in some subtitles which basically before you read it he said from what our understanding was he said that the car showed up with the broken windshield yeah yeah and and that's such a great Point that's exactly what he said and often times people think that in order to go after an individual you need to have either video footage of him directly hitting your car with the sledgehammer or you need the CSI effect DNA samples hair samples blood everything and you have experts to evaluate the damage to the windshield to make sure that it was that exact sludgehammer that did it none of that is necessary we actually could have done that the CSI effect we could yeah itely help necessary the perfect imprint to that Sledgehammer usually we get experts involved to evaluate stuff like that but instead of doing that there's what's known as circumstantial evidence where the court looks at the surrounding circumstances and facts and draws a reasonable conclusion from those facts so what we had was the sound we had him walking away with the sludgehammer and we had the before and after video footage so that's a big one and not to mention the scene where he hides the sledgehammer oh and that and they all lie right right and we'll we'll get into that okay the person who smashed your windshield he was eating lunch with his coworker which is what we saw um in the back of the commercial truck he saw your Lamborghini driving down the street at a high rate of speed the Lamborghini was then seen driving up Northbound back towards an individual on this truck the Lamborghini was approximately 5 ft away from the tailgate where he was eating he stated that the broken windshield was already there now I want to pause here knowingly lying to to a police officer is a crime oh it is it is a crime the sad part about it is that the only time something actually happens as a result of lying to the police is for things like false identification so knowingly providing false identification to a police officer that's normally when you see charges but that doesn't take away from the fact that knowingly lying to a police officer is a crime we know that he's lying obviously this person saw the person in the green shirt walk into the street and stop the Lamborghini that person in the green shirt told Damon to get out of his car and the two got into a verbal argument which is true that's interesting so he now is a witness for us cuz he confirms I was stopped in the middle of the road I didn't just stop on my own and also he confirms that the guy before I could get my camera open yeah the guy was telling me to get out of the car it he literally said that person in the green shirt walked into the street and stopped your Lamborghini this person who hit your Lamborghini admitted that he had the sludgehammer in his hands but did not use it to smash your window this person's lunchtime was over and he got back to working on the construction of the house and this concluded his statements so I want to reiterate again we are coming after these guys they are not off the hook something like this is taken very seriously you don't want to do what these guys did and we'd love to give you guys some more details on the complaint but we'd rather wait for these individuals to see this paperwork in front of their face and then we'll update you guys from there what else we got on that police report so we got the person person who was wearing the beanie give a report as well so according to his statement he was driving his truck Northbound on the street and turned left onto his neighbor's driveway he was then reversing out of the driveway and saw a blur go down the street he stated that the car was traveling at approximately 65 mph and weaved through cars that were on the street he then saw the person in the green shirt get into a verbal argument with you and that he was unable to see if the Lamborghini had damages the windshield already and that concluded his statement so hold on yeah back it up for a second let's back that up if we went back to the video that was like a one car at a time road because of all the traffic that was parked along either side of that road and I know that cuz I drove down it twice cuz I drove down once and then I had to go down I ended up in a CU a sack and I had to turn around and come back and that's when I actually got stopped and he almost makes it sound like I went speeding down the road and then the guy in the green stopped me like I went several blocks before I ever came I didn't go down just turn straight back so we'll read that again diss that but first of all he said I weaved in and out of out of traffic down this road and at 65 that is so ridiculous it's not even funny like if you were to drive 65 M an hour down that road with traffic on either side had complete that would be so dangerous well first of all you would be stop in time in front of you you wouldn't stop for the stop sign of the end cuz it's like 5,000 down the stop sign so there's no way you can doing 65 mph that's that's fast also apparently he saw you driving at 65 mph and weaving through cars while he's reversing out of a driveway so all of this is it was a blur but he saw me weaving in out of cars correct and then we have the guy in the green shirt statement as well he stated he was standing in front of one of the homes he was working outside when he saw your Lamborghini traveling at approximately 50 to 60 MPH southbound he then saw the lambor the Lamborghini traveling Northbound towards his Direction he got in front of the Lamborghini and stayed to the driver which is you you have to slow down then you started to record the situation and exited your vehicle the guy in the green shirt walked towards his house and he was unable to see if the damage to your vehicle was already there and then his wife told him to go inside of the residence because the situation was getting escalated and his wife called the police did he just say that he walked in front of the car the stoping to talk to him he says that he well it says he walked in front of the Lamborghini and stated to the driver you have to slow down he said I walked in front of it but then he said that he couldn't tell when when she was was damaged or not he said he couldn't tell if the windshield was damaged or not so the police officer he walked over to your car he examined the damages took photograph all that's documented in there and he formed the opinion that the person who smashed the windshield of your Lamborghini was in violation of vandalism not just vandalism felony vandalism because so they actually arrested him they did arrest him and they took him to jail walked over to the person who vandalized your car handcuffed his wrist behind his back and double lock them and place them under arrest that's good and we're currently getting in contact with the district attorney to see if they're going to pursue the charges against this man I think we all want to know if the legal system works some people feel like they can't trust that process and maybe it's a misunderstanding you got to understand this is black and white there's no gray area it's like you have to have evidence that's how people get convicted of a crime you can be charged of a crime but there's a difference between charged and convicted conviction is when you've been proved of the crime everything up until then is you're innocent until proven guilty right that's correct and I think some people need understand that like in this case we have the evidence now we need to find out if they're actually going to pursue it and we're still not done with the police report we have one more party who gave a statement and I must say this is my favorite part really this is my favorite part who's the party so we have the um the green shirts wife statement to the police and um she said that she was watching the whole incident from her patio and stated that you started to antagonize the neighborhood by recording the neighborhood residents whatever that means apparently you're antagonizing people by just recording what's going on she failed to mention the fact that everybody was antagonizing you she she made it seem like everyone else was the victim except for you when which is clearly not what happened course you know what the good piece is in all that is like hey whoever you are at least you got your husband's back I'll give her that so essentially she just told her husband to stop arguing to go back inside of the house um that she called the police that pretty much sums up the police report and so we took all the facts all the evidence we prepared the complaint everything has been filed and we're coming after these guys this is going to be taken very seriously next steps like when we do the next update what could we actually be telling the audience so we can tell them where the case is at who has been served have they retained a lawyer what phase of litigation are we in are we in Discovery are we talking about settlement um what there's a lawyer tactic here we can kind of get in a little bit into it a little more broad that we can give into detail but as much as we're legally allowed to give we're to give the audience and I'll give a little bit of details about some of the things we're going to be pursuing in court for example let's just talk about the property damage you have loss of use for the amount of time it took to repair any loss profits that could have been made while using the Lamborghini for any videos you could have potentially made and the damage to the actual car for replacing the windshield of course is there anything else you guys want to talk about I think we're good that's about it well first of all I want to say thank you of course these guys have been amazing of course if you're in a jam and you're in the Orange County area and you need legal advice or even if you're in California you need legal advice like someone can call you you can get you fre consultation free consultation it's interesting to read a police report because the police officers show up they're getting my story and they're getting the other people's story and they several of them and then they got to go basically like from memory cuz they didn't take notes so they do all this stuff over the course of an hour and a half plus arresting the guy at what point do they go and actually write this down do they sit in the squad car and write it right there on a computer well the guys in the back or do they go all the way to the police station and do it they usually go back and write it up all from memory M yeah that's tough that would be very hard that' be that'd be a tough job I think they did a pretty darn good job and kept it pretty accurate that's a rap guy stay tuned thanks for watching this series it's not one I intended on filming but we're trying to be positive about it but at the same time hold people accountable like look we're all adults in this situation it's okay to make some mistakes when you're young like this kind of stuff maybe like I still don't advise if you can stop yourself from doing this but you know obviously like this is just uncalled for I'll see you guys in the next video anything else you want to say love you guys now we're out\n"