your lawyer is a PC hack dirty digging for views by coddling the popular fake news narrative
nobody "waved a gun around"
if they had POINTED guns he wouldent have charged them at all
What they were doing is the literal definition of Aggravated Assault under Georgia law. And lawyer after lawyer say the same thing. Either they are all far more familiar with the law than you are, or they are all PC hacks. However. I think we are getting to your real objection. White guys were charged for killing a black guy. How outrageous.
they were never able to commission a citizen's arrest they were simply pursuing the individual when he decided to attack you don't have to have anything but reasonable suspicion to pursue someone while you're holding a gun in the state of Georgia
Oh. So when they dismounted the car armed and called on Arbury to stop they were not attempting a citizens arrest? Ok. What were they doing? Attempted Kidnapping? Their own words to the cops are sinking them here. That is part of your problem. They told the cops what they were trying to do, and on camera. Now you want to either go back and change history or pretend they didn’t say it
if you walk around the corner and a woman is screaming in a foreign language while pointing at a man running away from her it's perfectly legal for you to detain him for law enforcement because you had reasonable suspicion that he had committed a crime even though you had not witnessed any crime committed
Not really. But in either case it doesn’t matter. Nobody but the McMichaels were shouting and pointing. But I am confused. Were they after Arbury to detain him as you seem to indicate here or were they just standing armed in the middle of the street blocking the mans path after several attempts to cut him off according to their own statement to the police with no threat indicated?
One of America's most horrible serial killers was taken into custody by a group of citizens in California who did not witness him commit a crime of any kind!
they ran him down and beat him mercilessly until the police arrived simply because they believed he was Richard Ramirez The Night Stalker from recognizing his photograph
under your cowardly interpretation of the law This Woman's rapist and the most horrible serial killer in American history would have been allowed to escape since the citizenry would now not be allowed to act unless they actually physically witnessed a crime
Several things. First. The Cops put the sketch, and it was a sketch not a photograph, on the TV and news. Second. The POLICE identified the man as a suspect for the crimes.
THIRD. California and Georgia have different laws and the two cases are very different. In California in the 1980’s the Citizens arrest laws were first hand knowledge of a Misdemeanor and reasonable suspicion of a Felony. And I fail to see what the case of Richard Ramirez has to do with at most a suspected petty theft guy in Georgia.
the vast majority of thefts in stores are not actually witnessed but the individual is detained and then determined to have been shoplifting once a search has been conducted
I have over 20 years of personal first-hand professional experience in public safety that's why I know so much more about the law than you do
And again I ask what the hell Public Safety is? Look Scooter. I keep pointing out lawyers and you deride them. Here is another.
Free, easy to understand legal information from Atlanta Legal Aid Society and Georgia Legal Services Program
www.georgialegalaid.org
Citizen’s arrest
A private person can only make a citizen’s arrest if they see another person committing a crime. A citizen's arrest occurs when a citizen prevents a suspect from leaving a scene. Citizen's arrest most often happens in cases like shoplifting, when the store's manager detains the suspected offender.
So help me out here. You could be richer than Warren Buffet by being a lawyer in Georgia and explaining the laws of Georgia to the courts. Because all of them apparently have it wrong. Every single cop, every lawyer, and every Judge has it completely wrong. I mean every single one. Hell you could buy a private jet and own an island in a few months.
I don’t know what mall you are a rent a cop at. I don’t know what state you are in. I don’t know and I really don’t care. Because I live in Georgia. I live in Rural Georgia outside of Savannah. I have lived in Georgia for nearly thirty years. I have been fortunate enough to meet and know two Judges. One was a neighbor of my Wife’s family and the other shared an interest in Civil War rifles. He had a lovely collection of them.
Now Security Officer. Let’s be honest for a moment. What kind of blistering fool would listen to a Rent a Cop instead of a Lawyer where the law is concerned?
