SavannahMann
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Let me know what you think, and maybe tackle each point made in the video as to whether or not the officer is on point or not. Thanks
My only thoughts are that the McMichael's should have kept a safe following distance while reporting the suspects movements to 911 until the law arrived on scene. I guess the one McMichael being a former lawman figured that he had control of the situation, when infact in hindsight he didn't or it wouldn't have gone so bad for them.
Of course Arbery probably surprised them when confronting them in the way that he did, otherwise when they all finally met up in the street face to face. Arbery was probably also surprised when he turned and saw these citizen's pursuing him.
I guess we will all just move on now. Hopefully everyone will learn something important in it all.
I didn’t watch it all. I’ve gotten sick of people from outside Georgia lecturing us on Georgia Law. My first thought to his first point is the law is not just text. It is how the text is defined by precedent setting cases.
Under the Winn Dixie V. Nichols case the rights and authority to effect a Citizens Arrest was defined.
Further the reasonable suspicion was also defined in a case. So the understood definition in New York is not the legal definition in Georgia.
Further. The standards of proof for a citizen is different than a cop. For a cop seeing a guy running from a house might be enough to stop the guy and talk to him. For a citizen it isn’t. He must have done something doesn’t work to stop a citizen for a citizen.
What I said before still stands. The McMichaels did everything I was told to never do in my CCW class. The penalties I was warned about is exactly what they got.