Now, that said – if you persist with this sort of thing, thinking a phone or the threat of calling 9-1-1 is going to protect you – you are more than likely GOING to get beat down on a long enough timeline. You need to accept that you are likely to get beat down, hit, whatever you’d like to call it, your 9-1-1 dialing notwithstanding.

Start being realistic about what you may be getting yourself into with this gritty street photography. Your phone is not going to save you from a large angry man, even if he is wrong to assault you.

I would like if you would’ve given us more photografic essey on all this. Few shots, even his daughter (granted, obscured), a homeless person, the whole situation, spatial relations, not only having him threatening you…