[South Carolina] what can I do to protect myself from retaliation from a police officer?
Location : South Carolina. I’m on my HOA communities BOD. About a month ago I was driving and someone was tailgating me so I sped up as they continued to tail me. About a mile in he puts on his lights and I realized it was a police officer. I told him I thought it was someone road raging me and he let me go with a warning. I recognized him as someone who rented in my neighborhood.
Come this week there is an issue with people parking in an area that has restricted parking. The property manager sends out a memo to stop parking there or will get towed.
Turns out it’s the police officers wife running a business out of her home and having her employees park there. The police officer takes to the Facebook page publicly stating [my name and one other name] I don’t like you no one likes you, you do nothing for this community and you nit pick over stupid stuff.
Mind you there are 5 board members, myself and the other named individual who weren’t even involved with the parking conference call, two other board members who were campaigning for the tows, and the 5 who does not like me and is friends with the police officer.
They then starting parking in front of the other named board members house to bother him which just ticked off his neighbors who left notes saying don’t park here. The wife went on the Facebook page to cuss everyone out threatening them.
I’ve honestly never dealt with any of them. There is a lot of drama in my community which is why I’m not even on the community page.
I’m just looking for advice on how to protect myself. For a police officer to publicly post he does not like someone makes me feel he wouldn’t save me in an emergency or try to retaliate.
Location: South Carolina