Parking, assaulted. AIBU to report to police?

[newnamenew]

Car parked in disabled spot. Only disabled bay on site. I politely pull up alongside and down my window. Person does same. I ask if they are disabled, they reply no, I ask if she would please move as I use a wheelchair and really need the spit.

I'm to,d I'm arrogant and she was refusing to move due to my attitude. So I park alongside. She'd parked, if you imagine an inverse T shape, she would be the I part. She had a car parker behind her but room behind. So I parked I. The T of the inverse T. I got my wheelchair out and displayed my disabled badge. Person 2 comes and asks me what the fuck I'm doing and to move my fucking car. Goes into my car and takes my disabled badge saying I wasn't disabled anymore and goes to their car. I start wheeling to the shop, comes up behind me, drags me back towards my car by the back of the seat. It tilts, back at my car, chair still tilted hits me in the back, tries to get in my car again, puts finger in my face saying I give disabled people a bad name.

I go into shop, came out to find badge on back of car wiper thingy and they'd gone. Should I go to the police? Was I bring unreasonable not to move my car to give them move room to exit the disabled spot (mind they exited the spot anyway)?

Newname, best of luck for today. I've read this thread like

How can people be so unfeeling, inhuman, so fucking entitled???

To act like this bloke did is unbelievable. Assaulting you, in your wheelchair? What a bellend.

for you and your dd.

That sounds awful OP. What is good. Eww is that it was witnessed by your DD so she will be able to conform your version of events. Also they will be able to track down the perpetrators as you have the registration. If there is CCTV. I imagine it will be a done deal and he will be prosecuted for assault. As he should be. Bastard.

News not eww!

Though actually Ask nicely a disabled person should not be sitting waiting in a parked car in a disabled slot unless they are getting out. If only a non disabled person is getting out, then they should park in a bog standard space.

Waiting apprehensively for the police visit now with thoughts running through my head. What if they don't believe me? What if they simply don't care? What if twat attempts to discredit me? Sigh, this should never have happened in the first place, and the wait etc is causing further stress to me.

I guess A&E doctor confirming soft tissue damage should go in my favour though? My breathing was also affected, likely panic attack they thought.

Put those thoughts out of your mind. That's how arseholes like that get away with this sort of behaviour. You're doing a good thing for yourself and your DD by showing this isn't tolerable.

Wow what a horrible thing to go through. Hope you are feeling better today. Bloody well done your DD for getting their reg plate! Smart thinking.

This, plus any CCTV footage, plus confirmation from A&E doctor should HOPEFULLY make this case open and closed. Let us know how the visit from police went. And just ignore all the unhelpful comments from idiots.

If it goes to court then the twat (or more specifically his lawyer) WILL try and discredit you but only because he is angling to get off - stay strong, you are absolutely in the right.
It's also a standard bail condition (at least in Scotland, not sure about England) that you cannot intimidate the complainer or witnesses. Additional conditions can also be imposed.

There's another "what if" you might want to add to that list, OP: What if he's already known to the police? Let's face it, given his behaviour it really isn't unlikely, and anyway surely they'd have no reason not to believe you or care about this?

Unfortunately I'd say the thing about him trying to discredit you is almost a given; after all, given that there can be no excuse at all for what he did it's all he's got left, and someone as poisonous as this will certainly use it. It can only be hoped that the people you actually see possess the common sense and insight needed to see right through his bluster and that there isn't some other agenda going on

Lastly - though it should really have been first - can I apologize profusely for not understanding that you'd actually been struck. It just gets worse and worse

Good luck for today .

God, what a horrible thing to have happened. Good luck for the police visit

I'm horrified by this, OP, and angry on your behalf. I hope the police take it very seriously and that the CCTV covers the incident.

Still waiting for police visit.

Good luck, hope they throw the book at them both.

OP call 101 and harass them.

Fingers crossed the assault was captured on cctv and that thug is charged.

I'm so sorry this has happened to you.

I'm lucky enough to be in good health but I have a relative who is almost blind. The amount of abuse he gets is shocking, he uses a guide dog and is slower than most people. People deliberately get in his way, make rude gestures and accuse him of pretending to be partially sighted. (Yeah sure, because they give anyone a guide dog these days. )

God this is awful. I'm so sorry this happened to you. You really are doing the right thing by going to the police.

Hope it goes well with the police

Hi OP, it's horrible that you have been through this and you do not need this additional stress. I do not have a disability but was shouted at in a car park recently by someone who stole the space I was going into & that left me shaken so I can only imagine how you are feeling. This isn't your fault & nothing justifies it. I do hope you feel better after the police visit. Best wishes to you & your family

That's genuinely horrible OP. I hope you get the justice you deserve, and the ignorant tubes get named and shamed. My wife has a blue badge although looks as tho she doesn't always need it. Had this been done to her, I would probably end up in prison for gbh. Hope you're feeling better, and a big we'll done to your quick thinking daughter

Was the man disabled? The one who came out of the shop?

The police will take it seriously new
Please try not to worry too much

Hope talking to the Police has helped and that they are able to find this man.

Spoken to police.

They'd been to the two shops the incident was between, in terms of CCTV. The CCTV that would cover the incident had been changed to cover products rather than parking area.

As such it would be my word against the assaulters, despite the soft tissue damage, and he saw court being a craps-shoot.

So as a disabled person, a disabled person first gets verbally abused, then physically assaulted and as there was no witness and no CCTV footage, my assaulter walks completely free to do the same to someone else in future. The police officer will "have a word" and tell him to stay away from me. Thankfully I'm changing car soon so won't have the worry of my reg number/car type being a factor.

Sigh, so upset and disappointed. Words fail me, and after having a panic attack at the incident site, I worry as to how I'll react to even any minimal confrontation in future.