Are actual acts of violence and harassment against other roommates but not me personally, considered cause for a protective order?
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I live with a real bad egg that is a known alcoholic and hard drug abuser.
Last fall he got in a physical fight with an elderly roommate while working on a car. The bad egg was at one point on top of the elderly roommate and continued fighting. The fight had to be broken up.
This bad egg has also made unwanted advances on a female tenant who regularly has her boyfriend over, whom everyone in the house knows. At one point she turned down his request for a cigarette and he got belligerent, called her a female dog (the b word), hollered, and otherwise made her feel uncomfortable. She doesn't spend much time at the house anymore.
This bad egg got into an argument with another roommate with said roommate telling him to not contact him and lose his number. The bad egg still harasses him in the household, and the roommate mulled over getting his own protective order.
I directly called out the bad egg for trashing the common spaces and now I fear hostility directed at me as has been the case for other roommates, but I have not experienced it yet because I spend the weekend at my GF's place.
The landlord almost evicted him after a massive weeks-long hard drug bender where EMS had to be called to the house, and the bad egg was screaming, crying, banging on the wall, breaking glass bottles, urinating and puking on the floor, among other things. But the landlord gave him another chance.
I am planning to move out in 4 months but desire to he left alone by this individual, and despite 4 of us feeling unsafe/uncomfortable the landlord won't evict him.
Do I need to wait until he disparages, harasses, or assaults me before the courts can step in?