On it’s face it’s probably accurate but effecting a so-called “citizens arrest” is a murky area under the best of circumstances. Georgia probably has case law on this that would have to be researched and probably is by the defendants’ attorneys.
I love these posts that make it seem like a citizen's arrest - something legal in every single state in the USA, and every single province and territory in Canada, as well as most other civilized nations of the world. A citizen's right is not only extraordinarily common - it is
extremely necessary.
How do you suppose Wal-Mart security guards are able to legally hold shoplifters until the police arrive and properly charge them?
Some of the comments on here talking purporting citizen's arrest to be some difficult or rarely used area of law is simply not the case. It is hugely practiced, and when they unofficially stopped practicing it in Thunder Bay around two years ago because of "that's racist!!!11", groups of Indigenous young males would go into the LCBO [Liquor Control Board of Ontario - Canada's liquor stores where the bottle of ALBERTA Premium Whisky that you American Getbiggers pay $9 for in the USA, WHICH INCLUDES THE COST OF IMPORTING IT ACROSS A NATIONAL BORDER INTO YOUR SOCIETY, costs US CANADIAN GETBIGGERS UNDER GLORIOUS SOCIALISM $54 for the SAME BOTTLE, which is produced domestically, only a few provinces own the highway.
The Indigenous young males would walk in together and just steal a 1.75L bottle each and just leave, LOL. Because preventing an Indigenous person in Canada from committing a crime is "racist colonialism", blah, blah, blah:
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/thunder-bay-police-charge-shoppers-drug-mart-security-guard-with-assault/LOL.
And back to those prices, LOL!!!
But hey - we may pay more for ONE 60-oz bottle of 40% spirits than Americans pay for SIX of the same bottle [literally, at the duty-free border shoppe in Grande Portage, MN, I would pay $10 per bottle of Alberta Premium [Canadian] Whisky, but get $1 off when I buy six bottles [Manager's Special], making the cost $54 for six bottles - when ONE such bottle costs $62.40 IN CANADA, WHERE THE SPECIFIC ALCOHOL IN QUESTION IS PRODUCED, LOL!!!
AH, SOCIALISM. And the dummies here in Canada who think paying DOUBLE for everything is somehow a good deal because we get "free" government services that we could easily pay for if so much of our money wasn't taxed, and spent on overpriced/inflated Canadian products.
LOL @ this [Canada]:
https://www.lcbo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/lcbo/alberta-premium-whisky-%28pet%29-54213#.XsjhkDpKjIUMeanwhile in the more [for now] capitalist USA, you pay $10 for the same bottle, but you get $1 off per bottle when you buy six, making 6x bottles of 1.75L Alberta Premium Whisky in the USA cost Americans $8.40 LESS than ONE bottle costs Canadians:
http://www.rydensborderstore.com/duty-free.htmlLOL!!!!!!!!!! @ socialism.