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Is citizens arrest allowed in the US (nationwide)? (retrofed.com)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Note: I'm not asking for legal advice. Rather, it's a thing in some countries (like Japan or Indonesia) as I recall watching a video depicting an Australian tourist in Indonesia witnessesing people pursuing the phone snatcher by ganging up on him in which they eventually caught the dude & undercover cops managed to arrest him. Now, the question remains: are people in the US allowed to conduct a citizens arrest in the US?

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There was some kind of massive protests involving trucks that sort of wrecked havoc for months in a major metroplex in either the US or Canada.

Like a week after they citizen arrested someone the police shut it down.

Governments take the monopoly of violence very seriously in authoritarian countries.

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