A friend of mine (and no, that's not code for me) was at a local retail outlet on the north side of Indy recently looking at pens. He didn't find what he wanted and left the store. As he exited, a man approached him from his right, grabbed him by the shirt and threw him against a wall and another man handcuffed him. They proceeded to take him back inside to a room where they accused him of stealing a pen. Of course, after reviewing security tape it was obvious that he had not stolen anything and he was free to leave. Here is my question...can anyone tell me if those security guards were within their rights to handle him like that and, more interesting to me, would he have been within his rights to fight back? Note that they did not identify themselves in any way prior to bringing him back in the store. My reaction to that situation would have been to fight off what I would naturally believe to be an attacker and do what I felt necessary to defend myself. How would you have handled it?